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Then it intuitively seems there already are many people infected all over the world and we can't really prevent the infection from spreading, the measures being taken are futile. Brace yourself, buy grocery supplies and prepare your immune systems - start sleeping enough, eating healthy etc now.
Not even joking I quit drinking and started eating healthier as I followed this. I have been watching and reading since it was a few hundred confirmed cases and I think it will become a very large outbreak.
Alcohol kills viruses!
Didn't you pay attention to the Andromeda Strain documentary?
I plan on staying home and drinking heavily.
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Any link / proof ?
I had a look at some news from L'viv: "Two people who returned from China were hospitalized in Lviv with signs of ARD (acute respiratory disease)" (1) "Last week, nearly 13,000 people became ill in the Lviv region with influenza and SARS" (2) Primarily among kids and young adults, in the article they say the weather is especially conducive to the spread of the flu right now; I wouldn't automatically link it to the vi…
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China will likely not be able to contain the virus at this stage. it also could mutate and change it's behavior.
> it also could mutate and change it's behavior. With flu / colds, my understanding is that it's typically milder mutations which end up thriving, as the milder the symptoms, the more likely people are to try to carry on with their normal lives rather than isolating themselves (and thus infect more people).
Am I wrong to find it concerning that Africa and South America has yet to report a single case?
Current estimated death rate is 15% (based on now slightly out-of-date Lancet articles).
Asian men are the most susceptible group.
Male / female infection rate currently about 3:1 (but based on low statistics).
Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men to Asian women is about 4:1.
Ratio of ACE2 cells in Asian men compared to whites or African-Americans is 5:1.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1....
See some criticisms of the methods and results in the comments. Interesting correlation of ACE2 to stress and high blood-pressure, so could be strongly affected by some treatments for hypertension.
It is just about possible, in some qualitative hand-waving way, that reducing susceptibility by 80% could drop R0 from 5 to 1, hence reduce the threat of an epidemic in other regions.
Linking back to that live-updated map, which I find pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168451
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You are not wrong to find this concerning.
Especially given China's growing presence in Africa, there has to be quite a bit of travel between Africa and China.
Also -very maybe- the (rich) chinese are preparing their future secret extractions
GIGO - The numbers from China are a complete fiction - amazes me how gullible and slow the mainstream media has been to catch onto what has been really going on in China. Peak Prosperity Videos are quite good at making sense of the sporadic info that does escape the China censors https://youtu.be/P_3hNPTofEU Huge crematoriums with 30 ovens each are running 24/7 to deal with the deaths - most estimates from citizen jo…
Oh come on, like I'm going to trust the panic video from the guy selling survivalist porn. /r/CoronaVirus hosts a similar gathering of nutters.
It's amusing to read how many people in the sub are buying ammo as their first priority.
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I had a look at some news from L'viv: "Two people who returned from China were hospitalized in Lviv with signs of ARD (acute respiratory disease)" (1) "Last week, nearly 13,000 people became ill in the Lviv region with influenza and SARS" (2) Primarily among kids and young adults, in the article they say the weather is especially conducive to the spread of the flu right now; I wouldn't automatically link it to the vi…
Hmm, is that article using a different definition of SARS, because 13000 with SARS should double the panic of this coronavirus...
P.S. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80...