Things be gettin' scary!
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1220831432462995461
I was given a mask to wear yesterday when I went for an eye exam at one of our local hospitals. I have not noticed that many people yet wearing masks on the street (basically just Asian tourists, but not any more than usual).
Things be gettin' scary!
N 95 Masks selling out across Asia - stopping exports to ensure domestic supply is met. Just a heads up.
Nepal now reporting their 1st case ...
Just found my Friday night entertainment. Thanks!!
I just took some Zicam so I should be good, right?
Problem is we do not know the real death rate. If say 10% of those infected come down with a serious form of the illness and 10% of those die we are looking at a 1% case fatality rate, which may be drastically lowered with modern ICU care. Then it is nothing to really worry about. However if we do have a real case fatality rate of 5-10% regardless of care then we need to take action.
Good gosh, am I the first to say:
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED OF OTHER VIRUSES THIS WEEK?
Having traveled extensively in China and meeting local business and government folks, my only comment is don’t believe ANYTHING from official Chinese officials.
It’s a nothing burger.
It’s a typical flu outbreak fed by mass hysteria and click bait news.
If there is an “accidental” nuclear explosion over Wuhan we may assume this virus is more deadly then they are reporting.
Reminds me of the 1971 movie Andromeda Strain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film)
Obiwan is very worried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu7TYWNxqA
It was a little bit frightening...
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Johns Hopkins game planned a coronavirus pandemic last year.
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.
The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.
There is no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year. There is a fictional antiviral drug that can help the sick but not significantly limit spread of the disease.
Since the whole human population is susceptible, during the initial months of the pandemic, the cumulative number of cases increases exponentially, doubling every week. And as the cases and deaths accumulate, the economic and societal consequences become increasingly severe.
The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease.
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