PING!
Who is this guy?
Leung – one of the world’s experts on coronavirus epidemics, who played a major role in the Sars outbreak in 2002-03 – works closely with other leading scientists such as counterparts at Imperial College London and Oxford University.
His article in the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext
Another article designed to scare people.
Good luck with the spraying. Will prove totally non effective if the virus is spread thru ‘common’ A/C Heating vents. This was reported on Fox yesterday. Restricting H/K residents to their 1000 apartments in one building makes for one large petri dish.
The death rate is just above 2%. I wonder what the case fatality rate will turn out to be.
Given that most coronaviruses cause common colds, and this one appears to spread as readily as colds, this is worrisome. Good solid data on the incubation period will help to assess the efficacy of containment measures already in place.
I believe that an area is deemed cleared of a disease once two incubation periods have passed without a new case.
Wow. Another “We’re all gonna die!” scream....I love “could” articles. WE could get struck by an enormous meteor, thus ending life as we know it. We could be burnt to a crisp by a an exploding sun. etc. The bottom line is that God is in control. All the yelling and worrying won’t change that.
Fake news and fear mongering...borderline fatalism. This is real life...not an end-of-the-world DOOM novel ideation session.
4.48 billion people, I don’t think so. We are well beyond the mid 1300s when the Black Plague occurred. This is just sensational journalism.
Wrong. If unchecked, it could affect 100% of the world’s population. Also, it could affect 0%. The idea is that jet travel from third-world countries spreads it throughout the world. Aids spread from Africa to here how? Not from licking postage stamps on mail from Africa.
The reason they are spraying with those giant trucks is because the virus is aerosol.
It can just hang right there in the air indefinitely as I understand.
No way this isn’t a bio weapon. They made this.
I did updates on the 2914 ebola outbreak on the thread linked below. Reality turned out to be way different than projections. Interesting to review and think about in respect to the current coronavirus outbreak.
The updates are the last posts on the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3210773/posts
How is Japan being affected by this? Should they not be the model for sanitary practices in all this?
Ridiculous hype. 6 months from now, this virus will be completely forgotten.
8 billion x 60% = 4.8 billion infected
4.8 billion x 1% = 48 million deaths
On par with the Spanish flu
Civil Rights such as freedom of speech, and control over one's own body are under attack by more than just a virus.
Fake news is already echoing PRC propaganda that its drastic measures are working, while the world's plutocrats eager not "to let a good crisis go to waste" may utilize the crisis to erode civil rights and possibly justify martial law.
The China are holding the line but they need our help. Now its time for everyone to pitch in.
The fate of humanity is on the line.
If it ever gets a foothold in Sub-Saharan Africa then all bets are off.
Thanks for posting.
...if it cannot be controlled
Everyday it seems more and more that is where we are. The ability to "control" it passed about six weeks ago.
1% would be a dream compared to the Death:Recovered ratio or even the CFR of the CCP numbers—which are not true.
“Even if the general fatality rate is as low as 1%, which Leung thinks is possible once milder cases are taken into account, the death toll would be massive.”
Right now, you can’t find N-95 masks anywhere, and that’s a SIMPLE supply chain that has already been disrupted.
What happens when doctors and nurses start getting sick from this (maybe not at the hospital - they have kids who could get it in school and bring it home).
What happens when workers at drug and medical supply plants start getting sick?
What happens when truckers and grocery store and oil field workers start getting sick?
Simple answer: you have one or more vital supply chains that are FUBAR’d, and some of them spill into other areas, and once knowledge of the disruption occurs you have the panic meter going further toward (or into) the red.
We had better pray hard and act to quarantine people who MIGHT have this disease or contact with those that do/might, or a world of schiff is coming. Geez, Johnny Carson caused a weeks-long toilet paper shortage in the late ‘70s with a simple joke.