[C19fan]

If you want to help the impacted areas need N95 masks.

[Red Badger]

The ANDROMEDA STRAIN, comes to mind.............................

[Diogenesis]

this is planned chinese/canadian engineered biowarfare.

[Texas Eagle]

Wait a minute. There's another thread that says it is linked to snakes.

At least that's what the headline says. Who knows what the actual article says.

[NEMDF]

My son and his wife were on a cruise in December, including stops in Thailand and Singapore. So glad they are home and safe!

[Bitman]

This can’t be good.

[Boogieman]

Welp, it’s about time we had another “Spanish flu” level outbreak. According to what I’ve learned from various FReepers though, if I load up on Vitamin C, colloidal silver, and go on a keto diet, I think I’ll be fine.

[Paul R.]

Scientists previously thought the infection was spreading through saliva or in close contact such as when people hug, kiss or share cutlery, but they now realise it is even more contagious and spreads through the air.

HUH?

Most everything I've read from the start indicates (if it mentions it in any detail at all) transmissibility roughly similar to an average flu...

Airborn transmission is at the top of the list for coronaviruses on the CDC webpage:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/about/transmission.html

More media incompetence, or, worse.

[Uncle Lonny]

On a related note:

Ancient viruses never observed by humans discovered in Tibetan glacier

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/ancient-viruses-never-observed-humans-discovered-tibetan-glacier-n1120461