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> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
I believ the sanction put on Iran by the Trump administration is of the main factors for very high mortality rate of Covid-19 . This has caused suffering not just for the Iranian people but the whole region as now Iran lacks the equipments and medicines to put the epidemic under control. But I doubt the current President cares about that... https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/10/29/maximum-pressure/us-ec...
Is it time to start treating this like a big deal yet? Their first case was three weeks ago and 50 deaf already? This virus is unprecedented and it is only responsible for individuals with means to start preparing. No reason to wait for the government to tell you to do so. Plus each person that does it early is one less for the potential store rush.
> This virus is unprecedented I think you need to read up on your history.
Spanish Flu might have killed 100M but that doesn't affect me. This thing does.
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The thing is, although COVID-19 has a long incubation period in some cases, in many cases it has a short one. And about 15-20% of people will end up in hospital. So it can only spread under the radar for a limited period of time before it becomes obvious. The symptoms are well known by this point, dry cough, fever, shortness of breath.
Detecting small numbers of COVID-19 cases against the larger background of flu and other respiratory illnesses is not easy. It's quite likely to go undetected clinically until there is a fairly large number of unexplained pneumonia deaths of related people in a specific location. By this time there has been a lot of local exposure and spread. "Problems with CDC coronavirus test delay expanded U.S. screening" - https:…
USA unilateral sanctions of Iran are not only ilegal but inhumane and criminal.
Many view sanctions as war crimes because sanctions, though they superficially target officials/companies/etc, are meant to undermine a nation's economy and hurt the civilian population to pressure foreign governments. Essentially the goal is to starve the men, women and children in order to punish foreign governments. If it was iran or china or russia doing it, we would be calling it a war crime or a crime against h…
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World-o-meter isn't the definitive source for that information. Does the big counter at the top include the large number of people who contracted the disease, but never progressed past a mild stage, and so never reported it to their doctor? The WHO number is based on more than just the known cases vs deaths tally.
> Does the big counter at the top include the large number of people who contracted the disease, but never progressed past a mild stage, and so never reported it to their doctor? The big counter is based on official stats reported by the various countries and is equal to the numbers published by the WHO. Obviously, nobody knows the number of people who had it but didn't report it. You could do random sampling and get…
If there was some benefit to the disaster that was the Diamond Princess, I guess it was that we have a pretty good idea about the range of disease symptoms. The various evacuees too - living in quarantine till they get the disease or don't.
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> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
Not wanting to is another issue though, but it's often irrational.
I believ the sanction put on Iran by the Trump administration is of the main factors for very high mortality rate of Covid-19 . This has caused suffering not just for the Iranian people but the whole region as now Iran lacks the equipments and medicines to put the epidemic under control. But I doubt the current President cares about that... https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/10/29/maximum-pressure/us-ec...
the iranian government should have thought about the consequences before making threats of developing nukes. stop taking sides with dictatorships and star worrying more about the people of iran murdered by that barbarian regime.
Fucking hell, these politicians are as much a virus as the virus itself. 100% that number was pulled straight from their hindquarters.
yet you are getting downvoted for a legitimate concern. either iranian government trolls are lurking and downvoting or the 5th column in the us which takes side with iran just to spite trump and republicans.
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>What exactly worries you about mass hysteria and panic? Why would that be worse than what is likely to happen as Covid-19 spreads outside of China? Because then in addition to the damage caused by the outbreak, we will also have the additional often useless and counterproductive damage caused by hysteria and panic.
Right, but stressing the importance of avoiding "hysteria and panic" is also extremely popular with authoritarian regimes justifying censorship and trying to cover up their own incompetence. There was a window of opportunity during which this virus could have been contained. The Chinese dictatorship has squandered it in the name of "avoiding panic and hysteria". Panic and hysteria should be avoided by being transpare…