Coronavirus?

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  1. gheist1234

    gheist1234 |Path Finder| 『WuxiaWworld Vet.』|Beardy| |Zen|

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    Just worried for my grandparents and anyone in my family that has respiratory diseases..
    For the rest i just need to buy more food and water during the weekend, just have about enough for two weeks, for four people.
     
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  2. lamb19

    lamb19 Well-Known Member

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    "An airborne disease is any disease that is caused by pathogens that can be transmitted through the air by both small, dry particles, and as larger liquid droplets[1]. Such diseases include many of considerable importance both in human and veterinary medicine. The relevant pathogens may be viruses, bacteria, or fungi, and they may be spread through breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing, raising of dust, spraying of liquids, toilet flushing or any activities which generates aerosol particles or droplets."
    Wikipedia, dude or dudette.
     
  3. pass1478

    pass1478 I'm in Despair!

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    Statistically speaking, that's very inefficient.
    You're not wrong ignoring the fact that the flu has a mortality rate of >1%.
    In the present, influenza is much less dangerous. Reasons stated from previous posts. Even if it is, just because the danger of one thing exceeds the danger of another does not make the latter any less dangerous.
     
  4. --MON--

    --MON-- «Observer» «Death» «Lazy Reader»

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    i just read that some are recovering from the virus without vaccines and only by relying on their own bodies defence against viruses and got released from quarantine. but i don't know if its true.
     
  5. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    news? some media blows anything, just typical media~ some politician bring issue for sake popularity, nothing new~ masker harder to search cuz well big cities citizen mass panic buy it..... really do they not realize pollution is nvm...
    this cat live on village hmm let say rural place pretty chill~ back then hmm what flu that attack bird called again? H5N1 or SARS? when there chicken died, they burn it, some poultry directly destroy it chicks bear loss but pretty calm just normal bicker~ when feel sick just .... put it simple we just let government work while doing daily live~
    sure some gossip here and there but really chill~
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    oh btw it raining season so time clean places with water.... you see mosquitoes with dease is plenty during this season~
     
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  6. pass1478

    pass1478 I'm in Despair!

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    What? Just because one is immune to it does not make it okay to release him or her from quarantine.
     
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  7. pass1478

    pass1478 I'm in Despair!

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    The 3000+ people dead in China alone say so otherwise.
     
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  8. reagents 11

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    Most recover without vaccines under medical treatment. I don't know about other country that has yet ramping up their medical facilities to meet the need for large outbreak.
     
  9. Liyus

    Liyus Laksha's Desu~ Cat

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    you got the whole point wrong, the issue with this virus is the fact that have an incubation of 2 week.....wich mean you don't know if you are infected until at least a week passed....and in that week you will spread it to a lot of people.

    Is this all? nope, worse there is a lot of people with already healt issue and they have a high mortality rate(most death are from them), does matter you ask? well there are a lot of people who have old or ill parents.

    Is finished after all this? well, you are naive if you think so.....you forgot to take the economical aspect of this illness, with the fast spread of the virus a lot of worker have to take leave to avoid spreading the virus or because they can't get up from the bed, this could potentialy block all public facility like "Hospitals", "supermarkets","tourism", "police stations" even the "military" will be affected...

    and if like the flu, if this virus is seasonal then the death rate toll annualy will rise even more than a flu....
    so yeah this is litteraly a "world emergency" announced by the WHO(World Healt Orgaznizzation)
     
  10. reagents 11

    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Perhaps this is something to ease your mind at least.
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full
     
  11. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    so? do u live on china? is your government really incompetent? is your country at least have properly tell it citizens what to do for self prevention? what to do if you think get infected? idk about china but I know my country government do what they can~ sure not best cuz various limitation but it ok~ so this cat still chill~
    being cautious is ok but over reacting for no reason is no good~

    the overreaction is one of thing which may directly impact many sector on short term~
     
  12. sufod01

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    Careful for fake masks. Only buy them from reliable sources.
     
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  13. Nyanko

    Nyanko Psychotic Cat Princess

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    Fortunately I have a bunch of n95 masks which I hoarded during the fires. I did realise that if I was quarantined, I would only have like 2 days worth of food. So I did buy a bunch of canned food, rice and pasta to get me over the line. Plus tons of Ibuprofin. Yes, I am causing that shortage. Muahahaha
     
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  14. pass1478

    pass1478 I'm in Despair!

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    Congrats. You haven't disproven or went against my point. *clap clap clap*
     
  15. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    hmmm? what your point tho?
    people dead so? did I miss read intention?
     
  16. Cryotic

    Cryotic Nora's Psychic◈Nora's Silly Wife◈春雷◈暗いよ

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    most dumb thing i heard on the internet about covid-19 is that drinking corona beer will make you infected.. fking gold
     
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  17. Feng Tian

    Feng Tian Well-Known Member

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    Most of the economic damage comes from over reacting (there is a real component tho), like the whole lot of you is doing. Most politicians, and the WHO, are busy calming people down right now. People smh think this is the plague in virus form.
    My "point" was not missed, since it was an answer to someone, but literacy on NU might be expecting too much.
     
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  18. Nyanko

    Nyanko Psychotic Cat Princess

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    Looking at the Corona of the sun will make you infected too! And blind.
     
  19. ZeroR18

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    man i lost my money bet in how the apocalypse starts i was hoping we get nuclear apocalypse so we all go full madmax mode XD

    well at least the virus apocalypse is clean we all die the animal well take over the world ....unless all the nuclear reactor blows up then the animal is fuck big time D:
    ..............i really hope world health organization find a cure (>_<)
     
  20. Aquaa

    Aquaa 『We Lost The Summer』

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