Do Not Panic over the Coronavirus

Medium ^ | 2/24/2020 | Matt Latsha

[saxonjf]

I am not a doctor or an epidemiologist. I am a regular guy who sees the world and tries to understand it from a very common sense point of view. Tragedy has struck China, the virus has spread around the world. The Coronavirus is a problem and it must be dealt with. I am not a denier: what I will say is stay calm and don’t panic.

[11th_VA]

I expect an additional 6,000 drop

Probably, but will take a few weeks ...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I had to tell a fella to stay calm and stay alive. However, it was a whole different subject. He backed up and got in his van and left. That’s why he’s prolly still alive today.

[Vigilanteman]

I've heard the fatality rate may be as much as 3%, but so far the statistics from the honest first world countries put it at far less. I heard from a friend in Japan (where they are not big on panic and hype) that they are limiting public gatherings as to size and duration.

So, yeah, it is a big worry. Dow Jones is down over 1,000 just today.

[BobL]

Sorry, I chose to panic. So far no regrets.

[airdalechief]

— i’ve been around the world seven times, spent 37 months on the (cough) asian continent (sniff) have met hundreds of (coughcough) thousands (wheez) of (cough)(sniff) people —

But, have you ever been to a goat roping?

[Bob434]

Caution, reading this article can cause the virus infection-

[VanDeKoik]

I’m fine personally.

Either be a rock for weaker people, or you are just a crass SOB screaming fire in a theater.

Dont care if that offends a group on FR. My grandfather said that the man in the room stands straight, walks calm, smiles and directs.

[BobL]

True, but I haven’t started running around screaming. But I may change my mind if we have a few more bad stock days.

[abb]

Buying opportunity.

[Slainte]

It's been down-ish for me most of the morning. Right now it's showing a lot of "not fully configured" elements.

The WHO has a similar dashboard at- https://who.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/c88e37cfc43b4ed3baf977d77e4a0667.

[BobL]

Feel free to buy!

[bkopto]

This is where I (mostly) get virus news from, with daily videos and smart commentary. He’s good.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisMartensondotcom/videos

[Osage Orange]

Sheet....I've been preparing for years.

Two or four of everything...I think I need.

[RoseofTexas]

This is the biggest hoax scam on the face of this earth..sorry folks I just can’t drink the kool-Aid ..too many suspicious acts coming from China! To sacrifice a few hundred thousand people is a drop in the bucket for China’s 4 billion people! Something just doesn’t seem right! It just stinks to high heaven it really really does! The biggest red flag that pops up in the air is why are they not letting any American CDC people in the country to help them? Folks SOMETHING STINKS!! This is intentional to totally destroy our economy and hurt Trump in the coming election! Also,all of sudden Italy is claiming the coronavirus has infected a few folks with 3 deaths already reported BUT at the same time Italy just announced some type of deal with China...and don’t forget that Iran too has claimed the coronavirus has made shore....funny, can you say payback for the murder of somalimi(sp?). China and Iran are good friends!! Just waiting on Russia to announce some death too..or maybe they already did and I missed it.

[datura]

Wow, China tripled its population??? Who knew?

[teeman8r]

i’ve never been to a goat roping. but i’ve been to oklahoma.

[null and void]

Don't panic.

Plan. Prepare. Persevere.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[null and void]

Nope, pretty thoroughly broken.

[Parley Baer]

A caller to Rush stated that you do not hear anything on the Hong Kong protests. This has put protest to rest.

[lepton]

Started getting forced login screens when I refreshed.