Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[MazeRunner]

Coronavirus just hit Minnesota.

It was nice knowing y'all.

[stvn1974]

First reported cases of it here in Oklahoma.

[GenPion]

It’s hit Texas as well. To what degree, I’m not sure yet. SXSW in Austin, TX was just canceled due to concerns.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by GenPion

It’s hit Texas as well. To what degree, I’m not sure yet. SXSW in Austin, TX was just canceled due to concerns.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/a...23467b48e9ecf6

[Chaotic]

A case has been found in my town. woo

[MazeRunner]

The end's not near, it's here.

[AeroK]

Kind of related, I purchased my own foldable shopping cart for grocery store trips. I never pump gas without paper towels but then I thought to myself that shopping carts are pretty filthy and there’s so many people that handle them. Even with the wipes that the stores provide, I’m still paranoid with the flu and now this.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

That guy is super over dramatic, bit of a weirdo in my opinion. Just ignore him.

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I think he might be.. you know.. "_____"

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

jscoggins?

blu-ray_girl_fan?

Groot?

One more like that and I'm reporting you; "weirdo" and supporting it has no place here, zero.

[Tony208]

Allergy season coming up, but everyone gonna assume you have the virus. Shit.

[Dex Robinson]

This is the Y2k of 2020.

A bunch of chicken littles panicking over nothing.

With a mortality rate of around 3%, even if everybody on the planet had the virus, it would be little more than an inconvenience. It's most dangerous to people over 80...even at that, over 80% of the very elderly will recover.

If you are a healthy 35 year old and you got the virus TOMORROW, you would likely recover without even knowing you had it!

More than 1 in 3 people will eventually get cancer and about half of them will die but we walk around every day and go about our business But people get their panties in a bunch about this benign virus with 97% recovery rate?

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by Dex Robinson

This is the Y2k of 2020.

A bunch of chicken littles panicking over nothing.

With a mortality rate of around 3%, even if everybody on the planet had the virus, it would be little more than an inconvenience. It's most dangerous to people over 80...even at that, over 80% of the very elderly will recover.

If you are a healthy 35 year old and you got the virus TOMORROW, you would likely recover without even knowing you had it!

More than 1 in 3 people will eventually get cancer and about half of them will die but we walk around every day and go about our business But people get their panties in a bunch about this benign virus with 97% recovery rate?

That's the thing. If this virus really gets extreme and it spreads all over and we all get, not all of us will die. Each person will react differently to the virus. So all of us here may possibly become infected, but the human race won't become extinct from it.

The only reason the media is over-hyping this is because the virus is new and not recognizable by our immune systems. Therefore, it is highly contagious. And since a small percentage will die from this highly contagious virus, we have to take extra precaution.

[ctujackbauer]

The Grand Princess cruise ship, 21 showed symptoms of coronavirus and got tested, 21 confirmed infected.

Now all 3,500 will be tested. Where can we even put all these people?

[Himmel]

At this rate there is no way we can survive a 2 yr wait for vaccine.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by Himmel

At this rate there is no way we can survive a 2 yr wait for vaccine.

Yeah, that's what pisses me off. They just keep releasing breaking news everyday about the Coronavirus, making people panic, but they are slacking off with the vaccine. Why the hell does it have to take so long? We can end this outbreak once and for all by getting people vaccinated!

[LordoftheRings]

How does it compare with the flu ...
• https://www.livescience.com/new-coro...-with-flu.html

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

How does it compare with the flu ...
• https://www.livescience.com/new-coro...-with-flu.html

Coronavirus: 3,000 deaths/100,000 illnesses = 3% death rate
Flu: 18,000 deaths/32 million illnesses = 0.06% death rate

The number of deaths may be lower with Coronavirus, but A LOT more people have had the flu. So that makes the death rate of the Coronavirus significantly higher. Not to mention that the Coronavirus is a lot more contagious because it's a new virus.

[rdodolak]

There are at least two strains out in the wild; the "S type" (less aggressive) and a "L type" (more aggressive).

Coronavirus is mutating: Chinese scientists find second strain
Discovery Of 2 Strains Of COVID-19 Coronavirus Hints At How It Evolved
Coronavirus: Are there two strains and is one more deadly?

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by MrHT

Coronavirus: 3,000 deaths/100,000 illnesses = 3% death rate
Flu: 18,000 deaths/32 million illnesses = 0.06% death rate

The number of deaths may be lower with Coronavirus, but A LOT more people have had the flu. So that makes the death rate of the Coronavirus significantly higher. Not to mention that the Coronavirus is a lot more contagious because it's a new virus.

The key word here like you just said is ... "new".
The Coronavirus is mainly unknown by the health scientists community.
It propagates fast and easily.
The percentage of deaths I'm certain it will diminish as we go and more people get infected. But it's tough to check everyone and even tougher when people are infected without showing the symptoms. And they are not sure yet if it can reinfect someone who has recovered. They are learning more as we go on that new Coronavirus.

It sure doesn't look too alarming to us if we compare to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 with 50 million deaths (some say it could even be twice that number, 100 million).
And only over 100,000 Coronavirus cases doesn't seem to be a large number.
Maybe in real actuality this number is twice; it's just too difficult @ this stage in time plus with our resources to evaluate accurately.

In China it is diminishing because they took radical actions.
But in other regions of the world I doubt that such actions would be taken to such a level.

In the USA (population over 330 million), testing is key right now.

It is the unknown territory of that new virus that has the World Health Organization worry the most. This is a human-human virus transmission, and because we travel a lot everywhere it is in almost 100 countries/regions now. And it kills the older people the most, over 70, plus the ones with weak immune systems, heart conditions, etc.
Any human no matter his age or condition doctors they want to save, families they want to save, friends they want to save, WHO wants to save.

[The Great Owl]

Here is a great real-time tracking site for coronavirus cases.

There are 338 cases here in the U.S. as of this moment.

Keep in mind that those are officially diagnosed cases, though. There are probably thousands here in the U.S. who have coronavirus and have not been diagnosed.

[Himmel]

New CDC guidance says older adults should 'stay at home as much as possible' due to coronavirus

Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to "stay at home as much as possible."

This advice is on a CDC website that was posted Thursday, according to a CDC spokeswoman.

Early data suggests older people are twice as likely to have serious illness from the novel coronavirus, according to the CDC.(Source)