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Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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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.

Having enough sleep is the most important thing AFAIK. You should also make sure you get enough vitamins and other micronutrients - vitamin supplements are popularly overrated as a cure but this doesn't mean they're useless: they don't really cure but their deficit (and you can hardly expect you are not deficient in any) certainly weakens the immune system. Another interesting thing I have recently found out about is l.reutrti (BioGaia Gastrus) yogurt - it boosts respiratory immunity by increasing histamine.

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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.

Quit drinking?! Alcohol kills viruses! Didn't you pay attention to the Andromeda Strain documentary? I plan on staying home and drinking heavily.

> Alcohol kills viruses!

Does it? I'm actually curious if alcohol-based hand sanitizers should be used as an element in 2019-nCoV infection prevention.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.

In my city (Lviv, Ukraine), number of viral pneumonia cases is jumped by 4x since Jan 26, but we have no test kits to confirm kind of virus they caused by. They can be caused by regular influenza, as usual, or they can be caused by corona. Nobody knows yet. :-/

> In my city (Lviv, Ukraine), number of viral pneumonia cases is jumped by 4x since Jan 26, but we have no test kits to confirm kind of virus they caused by.

AFAIK you are going to have them by tomorrow (5th of Feb). WHO cares (pun intended).

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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How is wanting to contain the spread of an exponentially expanding virus racist? As far as punitive actions against a country, the world is taking a relatively light approach to China especially when one factors in their treatment of the Uyghurs. They have placed an entire ethnic minority into concentration camps for reprogramming. That's racism.

> They have placed an entire ethnic minority into concentration camps for reprogramming. Do you have any proof of this? All Western media has been able to produce is a few pictures of some buildings which could contain at most a few hundred people. At least look at the other side's story before you blindly believe everything capitalist media tells you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4cYE6E27_g

Thank you for the link. Regardless to how true it actually is, indeed it always is essential to look at the other side's story. I haven't had such an opportunity yet.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Am I wrong to find it concerning that Africa and South America has yet to report a single case?

2019-nCoV targets ACE2 receptor cells in the lung. 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.bio…

That's pretty interesting.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Am I wrong to find it concerning that Africa and South America has yet to report a single case?

2019-nCoV targets ACE2 receptor cells in the lung. 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.bio…

> We also noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells). This might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area.

the only Asian donor, n=1. It's too bold to claim that Asian men are the most susceptible group.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Does anybody find surprising that India only has 3 infected? Out of 1.3 billion? And they are a neighboring country?

While the border between India and China may be long, it is sparsely populated. It’s not like the Canada-U.S. border, where the vast majority of Canadians live within a hundred miles of the border.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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In my city (Lviv, Ukraine), number of viral pneumonia cases is jumped by 4x since Jan 26, but we have no test kits to confirm kind of virus they caused by. They can be caused by regular influenza, as usual, or they can be caused by corona. Nobody knows yet. :-/

Any link / proof ?

It's A H1N1 (Swine Flu).

https://wz.lviv.ua/news/404392-likarni-ternopolia-perepovnen...

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