Posted on 03/17/2020 6:05:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Many people are convinced that China’s lockdown worked, prevented infection and that we should immediately follow suit. I disagree. An article in The Lancet, a medical periodical, studied the early phase of China’s epidemic, and concluded that the virus had spread to all corners of China before they even started the lockdown in the Wuhan area.
So by inference, they had positive cases that began probably in early December 2019, probably even in November. The so called lockdown started on January 23-24th, when they realized they had several atypical pneumonias in their hospitals in Wuhan, linked to the COVID-19 virus. By the time they implemented social distancing, the virus had already infected thousands. By that time it was too late.
Like the common cold, coronavirus is spread not as much by people contact, but more by environmental factors. This means if you are in a congested city, there will be more sickness. If you live in the county, less so.. The approach the world is taking to this virus is dead wrong. Social distancing does nothing. The best thing to do is just take precautions like you would for a common cold. This is virus that doesn’t require person to person contact.
People are just vectors for environmental spread. It will run its course in 6-8 weeks and that will be it. We might as well enjoy our lives, because there is little that one can do to stop it. The saving grace is that it is not as lethal as as the misguided experts are saying. Chance of death = 0.22%. Most of the deaths will occur in individuals over 70.
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Eff NO!
Not a single one.
The cold is not spread by person to person contact, but by contact with infected bodily fluids, such as sprays from sneezes and coughs. The best defense against this kind of spread is to stay 6 feet away from other people. Thus, the recommended social distancing--because you can't stay 6 feet from other people in a crowded environment. Plus, the virus can stay for hours on surfaces if they are contaminated with bodily fluids.
People are just vectors for environmental spread. It will run its course in 6-8 weeks and that will be it. We might as well enjoy our lives, because there is little that one can do to stop it. The saving grace is that it is not as lethal as as the misguided experts are saying. Chance of death = 0.22%. Most of the deaths will occur in individuals over 70.
The death rate right now is running at 3.96%. It is trending upwards. Johns Hopkins real time case count.
The only bright side of this pandemic is that coronaviruses do not mutate as fast as influenza viruses. We are not going to get secondary and tertiary, etc., waves of pandemic because the virus mutated so much that people who have had it are no longer immune, as is the case with influenza.
That also means it won’t mutate to a less virulent form soon either.
This Poppy appreciates the sentiment.
I've read a number of articles from Doctors that think due to the speed of transmission one could become infected simply by breathing the exhaled air of an infected person. In that event, social distancing is the exact right thing to do.
As they used to say: "One can no more stop the flu than they can stop the wind from blowing." This virus appears to be the same.
But social distancing also means less mutual surface contact. Also sneezing.
The good news is she didn’t get corona virus.
The bad news is her tongue is sprouting genital warts like a mushroom farm.
The medical doctors say this is one very contagious virus.
Tell it to Wuhan, Doc.
Yes, this guy is not telling the whole story. He’s basically dismissing this as “like the common cold” because it’s a coronavirus, but in reality it is a “SARS-type coronavirus” which is quite different than the common cold.
Interesting. ..but the older ones are the ones who died. More reason to quarantine the older folks...like ME!! And like I am.
Social shaking of hands is surface contact, therefore spreading the virus. Social distancing stops shaking of hands and therefore stops spreading of Coronavirus.
What am I overlooking?
That's a large part of our problem. On another thread, France's health minister said Coronavirus sufferers should not take Ibuprofin. I was especially impressed with the definitive nature of his comment.
...said might exacerbate .... could be .... seem to have stemmed
Anybody with even a notion about the disease is getting in the news.
One of 3 peer reviewed studies of airborne transmission of COVID19. Summary this virus can survive in sub micron aerosolized particles for 2 to 7 hours and still be viable for infection. The metric of if you get the.virus or not is called the critical threshold of infection. This is why one person could infect an entire nursing home. They contaminated the air not with droplets but with sub micron aerosolized particles that linger in the air for hours infectious to anyone who breathe in the same air. One of the other studies has a example of a single.passenger on a bus pass it to people 4.5 meters away thats much farther than 6 feet. The same person infected two people who got on the bus 30 minutes after the patient zero left so the air itself was infected. The second person was an hour after. They had cameras on the bus so they could use face matching to find patient zero and his/her timeline and everyone elses with location on the vehicle. So yes this bug is absolutely airborne.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf
We are under the Chinese curse of living in interesting times.
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