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Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Post by brutt » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

agapon wrote: post #70

netsharc wrote: post #63

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Hmm, is that article using a different definition of SARS, because 13000 with SARS should double the panic of this coronavirus...

Indeed! The original article says ГРВІ which is a local abbreviation of acute respiratory viral infection and a typical label for any viral cold-like illness. Now is a peak of flue / cold season in Ukraine, so there is nothing unusual. Some people are just panicky. P.S. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80...

4x increase of viral pneumonia cases over previous year is worth to investigate. It looks like it caused by H1N1 (Swine Flu), which is much less worse than Corona-virus, but still worse than regular flu.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Post by brutt » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #73

brutt wrote: post #24

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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. :-/

> 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).

Thank you. It looks like we have H1N1 again, but it better to be safe.

Re: What's Happening with the Coronavirus

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Post by ShorsHammer » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 6:05 AM UTC

kenneth wrote: post #45

ShorsHammer wrote: post #36

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> could mutate and change it's behavior(sic) We could also get hit by an asteroid tomorrow and most life on Earth wiped out, guess that isn't newsworthy though. Hope people are worried about that danger, despite all the effort put in we routinely can't detect dangerous objects that come near Earth. Scary stuff. How many people have died outside China from this virus again? Is it zero? Last I looked it was zero human…

So you're saying that the people who die in China don't matter… no big deal, as long as it's not happening in my country. Pandemics don't care about borders, anyways. There's a very high probability this will spread outside China even with all the drastic measures we've taken.

In no way saying they don't matter. I'm saying it's overblown and ridiculous how scared people are, most media outlets have running 24 hour coverage of any snippet they can scrounge up.

The authorities are taking care of it incredibly well, my main point was keep calm and carry on. Of course it will spread elsewhere in greater numbers, may even rival some rare ailments for deaths. Catching pneumonia is bad for everyone. A marginally higher risk of catching it isn't anything to stress about.

Would you like to talk about the 5000 people who died on the roads in China last week alone? Because I would. Do their lives matter as much here? It's far more tragic given that nearly all of them weren't suffering pre-existing conditions.

This is giant global experiment in human ability to logically discern risk and we seemed to have failed dramatically.