Does anybody really know what is going on???
Surface contact is true. Licking an airline toilet seat like this everyday democrat is not recommended...
https://nypost.com/2020/03/16/woman-licks-plane-toilet-seat-for-coronavirus-challenge/
Completely and utterly disagree with this doctor. While surface contact can be a vector the high contagion level of this virus coupled with initial studies that show a 3 hour air time infer that this thing is essentially spread by airborne contact.
Flu isn’t spread in groups and people to people?
How do the surfaces get contaminated? Uh, by people.
I would not want to be diagnosed by a doctor with this lack of attention to established facts on the ground. It wasn't "too late." Drastic measures - social distancing enforced with guns and welding torches - have pretty much stopped it - if we believe Chinese statistics - and if they are wildly wrong we would have known it by now.
And Taiwan stopped it before it got started. Singapore and Hong Kong have it well in hand, and South Korea got it under control after it looked like it was out of control there.
I pray for Italy. But that is the point, and his license should be pulled.
F/O doc.
Moron doctor is moron.
It only takes a small amount of common sense to know a virus can live on a surface.
I would not take the chance, based on this one person’s opinion.
This is EXACTLY what a leading CDC researcher told me a month ago.
Monday: keep your distance
Tuesday: distance doesn’t matter
So much crap. So little credibility.
It would be amazing if it hadn't. Why aren't there numerous other Chinese cities experiencing major outbreaks like Wuhan did?
Don't tell me "they locked everyone down with an iron fist" either. Even the ChiComs can't lock down 1.5 billion people that tightly especially when the seeds had already been sown.
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.
But social distancing also means less mutual surface contact. Also sneezing.
Tell it to Wuhan, Doc.
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?