Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Let’s begin with stating everybody uses other numbers, and every dead person is one too many.
I have other numbers. Seems they have changed the “definition” of a person infected by Corona.
The number of cases has risen by 14,480 and the death toll has risen by 242 people in one day.
The new definition has increased the total number of deaths with 135 persons in previous days.
So the most recent death toll is “only” 107 persons in one day. Which is also horrifying.

right……but this source here is trustfully……and thats official…who knows….sincerely,for me is sad,that i can not order anything…but i saw also in my city some people with masks….weeks ago…chinese…i wasnt sure,if they are crazy or paranoic…now i understand…it totally crazy whats going on n China these weeks…

Any link/source to this subject?

Searched Eu vat packages, I think this site is relevant.
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/modernising-vat-cross-border-ecommerce_en

If the sites adapt and demand Vat for each orders, refunding it to the buyers country, then for my country there will be only 25 % added, no handling fees. As it will soon be now, it will also add handling fee $32 atop. Think this will result me to buy less of the cheapest brands, and switch to buy some of the premium brands instead. Ofc much less shopping and orders.

I did not catch the source but last night I heard that this has the potential to affect 60% of the world’s population. No fear mongering intended. Just saying.

What I found most disturbing in Winston's video is that there are people with active symptoms who bragged that they circumvented the Chinese quarantine control. These people made it out of China and are now in France, Australia or anywhere else without being properly checked for any infection of nCoV. So much for the phrase "we have everything under control". With an incubation period of up to 24 days and a disease progression of up to 5 weeks until death or full recovery occurs things have become out of control some weeks ago already.

Usually, when politicians say "we have everything under control", people become alerted. This phrase serves only one purpose: to prevent any panic. Now that masks/respirators are out of stock, also urgent medication like ibuprofen is subject to panic buying everywhere.

I placed two orders from Banggood’s CN warehouse this week. One shipped almost right away, the other took a few days.

Just got a work e-mail about Covid-19 policy updates:

Here are a few excerpts:

WHO:

Public Health England Statement:

Public Health Wales update:

https://phw.nhs.wales/news/public-health-wales-statement-on-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china/

NHS Wales

A little freaky…

A virus called Wuhan-400 makes people terribly ill … in a Dean Koontz thriller from 1981

Of course I am a bit cautious, but I also would like to see how things are developping.

So yesterdag I ordered a (budget) light from Banggood.

And this morning (Feb.13th) I found an email in my inbox that it was shipped.

(arrived Mar.23th)

But the parts that BG shipped on Jan.13th are still out somewhere.

(arrived Feb.20th)

The parts I ordered from Kaidomain on Jan.23rd are still being processed.

(shipped Feb.27th, arrived Mar.13th)

And by looking at his status, I guess the Gearbest rep has not yet returned to work.

(MIA from 20191225 till 20200312)

I will keep you updated on any changes.

Seems like logistics will soon normalise.

You do not need to be a Harvard professor to expect that as a possible outcome, follow the news, see the numbers and the easiness of transmission of this particular strain and you can come to that conclusion by yourself.

Still there are up to now surprisingly few cases outside China, the world is doing an effective job delaying the spread, and even if that only means that a pandemic is postponed, winning time gets us a tiny bit closer to an effective vaccine that is expected in a year and a half (that hopefully will be worldwide available).

Taiwan claims DHL packages unshipped to China due to corona

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3876721

I’m just concerned about the cruise liners — which seem perfectly set up to spread the virus, not so much among well off passengers in their windowed staterooms with outside decks, but in the windowless shared below deck rooms used by staff and by low-cost cruise passengers.

Fortunately a lot of bat caves are closed to exploring due to the spread of white nose fungus, perhaps lessening the chance some sick caver will pass the virus to local bat populations.
I wonder what other mammals (and birds?) can host it?

The Chinese government has ordered all the people under quarantine to kill their pets, so I guess they figure dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. are likely carriers of the disease.

i hate the virus by now!!