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Mask Efficacy |OT| Wuhan!! Got You All In Check

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Butz

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Are all your loved ones as ignorant as you?

Because that would be a shame.

Yes, I'm so ignorant I'm spreading the virus by sitting at home all day. It's not the people that travelled to china, it's people like me.
 

Griffon

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i bought some masks at a markup.

then had a realization that this is real and not some movie or game. this thing really is pretty miserable someone in japan testing positive a second time after recovering and the report about the person in northern California getting it from an unknown source whom hadn't traveled.

seems like this may end up like the flu not as in the severity but that we will just have to live with it spreading among the population every year, and get yearly covid shots.

I'm feeling you dude, I just ordered a bunch of survival canned food and shit like that.
I thought it would make me feel better, but on the contrary now I feel like complete shit. Me having to actually buy emergency food makes the danger all the more real and fucking scary.
 

Hotspurr

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It seems to be that the cases are grossly under reported. If anything, China is basically a surveillance state that was equipped to quickly quarantine people and lock things down, and they are at 80 K cases. It may be they have gotten it under control so we may see a lull in the case count over the next few days to a week, and then as all the other countries begin to ramp up it will get bad again. It has already made it to some third world countries completely not prepared to deal with it. This thing is like the seasonal flu x 50-100, and if it gets widespread in the US you're going to be looking at 1-5 million deaths.

I would buy some surgical masks, hand sanitizer, plan less frequent trips to public places (like grocery stores), and avoid travel where air is recirculated. It's possible this may not blow up all the way, but both the CDC and the WHO are saying it's inevitable. The president's behavior is grossly misleading in all this, the lengths some people will go to stay in power to the point they are willing to compromise public health and safety.
 
Wait, have there been any confirmed deaths for 10-19 crowd?

Yes? I don't know the specifics off the top of my head, but I would guess there have been. I've seen the "no deaths under 10" repeated in a lot of places, so I tend to believe that part is true.

My mother in law has both heart problems and diabetes :messenger_anxious: and she's such a nice person. I hope this doesn't get to her.

Here is hoping!!
 

Piku_Ringo

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What the hell does Trump have to do with China not being able to contain their bioweapons in their labs?
Maybe its divine punishment for ever having voted Trump into office. :messenger_grinning_squinting:

Not sure how this illness could of originate in China and its people could of gotten so sick?

 

Butz

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Best to ignore him, probably just a child not able to grasp the situation until they themselves get directly impacted.


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Damn! Didn't know Corona was gonna kill us all in October 2019 too!

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Wow, just how did we survive in 2016?
 
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Butz

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This user has been removed from thread. It’s not the fact that you feel others think you have the wrong opinion, it’s the juvenile trolling and overall shitposting of said “opinions”.
I think you have made your point. Now move on and stop triggering other people in here or will have to report you.
Wow, do I have the wrong opinion? Am I not allowed to post here if I think it's not happening this time?
 
How come this thing isn’t killling babies/young kids?

Babies have fresh lungs. Your lungs deteriorate over time. Fucky lungs are a magnet for pneumonia. This virus is related to the flu, and it does kill the good old fashioned lung inflammation way.

The thinking is it does a cytokine (sp) storm type thing where it makes your system attack itself. Young kids might not have it as developed so it doesn't attack as well?

Then the primary deaths should be 20-40 year olds as they have the strongest immune systems.
 
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longdi

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So now a dog may have gotten the virus!
Social media is going crazy in fear.
Any one remember if h1n1 so devastating on social media?
 

McHuj

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I would think the fact that it's been thriving in Iran and Singapore would have already debunked that theory

iran is not not exactly hot right now ( Qom has been below 60F for the highs this month with lows below freezing) and I would not call having less then 100 cases thriving for Singapore at least in comparison to how it’s blowing up in Korea and Italy.
 
well at least the numbers of death seem slower
OTHER PLACESCasesDeathsNotesLinks
Diamond Princess705436 serious, 10 recoveredSource
South Korea2,0221313 serious, 5 critical, 24 recoveredSource
Italy6551719 serious, 45 recovered Source
Japan214*413 serious, 32 recoveredSource
Iran24526Source
Singapore9608 critical, 66 recoveredSource
Hong Kong9224 critical, 2 serious, 18 recoveredSource
United States6006 recoveredSource
Thailand4002 serious, 15 recoveredSource
Taiwan3215 recoveredSource
Malaysia22017 recoveredSource
Australia23015 recoveredSource
Germany4802 critical, 16 recoveredSource
Vietnam16016 recoveredSource
UAE1902 serious, 5 recoveredSource
United Kingdom1608 recoveredSource
France3821 serious, 11 recoveredSource
Canada1403 recoveredSource
Macau1006 recoveredSource
Bahrain330Source
Kuwait430Source
Iraq70Source
Philippines312 recoveredSource
India303 recoveredSource
Russia202 recoveredSource
Spain2501 serious, 2 recoveredSource
Oman60Source
Nepal101 recoveredSource
Cambodia101 recoveredSource
Sri Lanka101 recoveredSource
Finland201 recoveredSource
Sweden70Source
Belgium101 recoveredSource
Egypt101 recoveredSource
Israel30Source
Lebanon30Source
Afghanistan10Source
Austria30Source
Croatia30Source
Switzerland80Source
Algeria10Source
Brazil10Source
Greece30Source
Pakistan20Source
North Macedonia10Source
Georgia10Source
Norway40Source
Romania10Source
Denmark10Source
Estonia10Source
Netherlands10Source
San Marino10Source
Nigeria10Source
Lithuania10Source
TOTAL4,54470106 serious/critical
 

mcz117chief

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The thing about Africa though, the population density there is pretty low and transportation is also quite limited compared to Europe or South Korea. I think the amount of infected could stay pretty low there or maybe that is just my wishful thinking.
 

JordanN

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The thing about Africa though, the population density there is pretty low and transportation is also quite limited compared to Europe or South Korea. I think the amount of infected could stay pretty low there or maybe that is just my wishful thinking.
Africa actually has almost the same population as China (1.2 Billion).
 
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