Coronavirus: South Korea placed on ‘red alert’ as fifth person dies

The Guardian ^ | Today

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South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in has placed the country on “red alert” after it reported its fifth death and more than 123 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of infected to 556.

[cba123]

Getting serious.

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https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/23/coronavirus-south-korea-reports-123-new-cases-and-two-more-deaths

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Meanwhile, the ChiComs claim they only had 18 new cases in all of China outside of Hubei.

[iontheball]

What makes this virus so hard to manage is the inability to accurately predict when someone is infected and when someone has recovered from the virus. It’s as if it goes into a latency period allowing it to hide in the body from detection as a herpes virus does.

[Morpheus2009]

Hopefully the virus doesn’t create zombies like The Walking Dead.

[Lazamataz]

Hopefully the virus doesn’t create zombies like The Walking Dead.

It will. I'm going to effing die.

[11th_VA]

WHO is going to declare a pandemic this week ... craps about to hit the fan

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Reactions of governments hiding the truth about the seriousness of this disease have given me all the information I needed. This virus is really bad and China specifically has not come out and directly said so. The illness is far worse in the way it shows symptonms (or doesn't) and infects people.

It is far worse when one is sick with it than they are telling people. And, the mortality rate is worse and HEALTHY people who should be able to weather it are DYING. The coverup is so the very rich can move their assets to safety as much as possible before panic sets in and all hell breaks loose. The record lows on Treasury bond yields (very few understand what that means) and the sharp uptick in the price of gold tell me all I need to know about that. Batten down the hatches. It's going to be a rough ride.

[Patriot Babe]

I think we should start preparing in case. Las Vegas was full of them yesterday. Oh, this reminds me tonight The Walking Dead new season tonight.

[ronnie raygun]

Heard stats here 12000 die from an average flu year

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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.

[deks]

Pathologists shed some light on the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/oddKSl2wFc

— Tech Insider (@techinsider) February 22, 2020

[deks]

12,000 US flu death per year is common, and has recently been as high as 80,000 (Winter of 2017-2018)

https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/

[sauropod]

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[Pollard]

John Hopkins coronavirus map

I think this is going to surpass the regular flu. Then you’ll have to go thread to thread and talk about how many car accidents kill people every year.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[BobL]

In before Moonbeam telling us all is well, authorities are dealing with it, and that there are still billions of healthy people in the world.

[BobL]

“I think this is going to surpass the regular flu. Then you’ll have to go thread to thread and talk about how many car accidents kill people every year.”

...and then heart disease, and then cancer. After that, we’ll be given words that the virus will ‘balance the books’ on Social Security, by knocking millions off it it, and finally something about this ‘corrective action’ being good for the planet in fighting ‘climate change’.

Of course, before any of the above, our hospitals and pharmacies will be out of meds, so they’ll probably be zotted by then (by the way, upcoming shortages of meds are now a given, since nearly all of them comes out of China, and nothing is moving there).

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Reports saying China is building 19 new hospitals. Why if the cases are going down.

[plain talk]

“I think this is going to surpass the regular flu. Then you’ll have to go thread to thread and talk about how many car accidents kill people every year.”

LOL. well done.

[Paul R.]

Reports saying China is building 19 new hospitals.

Can anyone confirm that from a reliable source? (It may be upthread and I missed it?) Why if the cases are going down.

Not that I think the Chinese numbers can be trusted, but, even if those numbers just give some sense of trends, China has, what, maybe 100k infected people, plus "confirmed cases", "out there" at a minimum. Maybe it is more like half a million infections & cases not yet tabulated? That number should decline if they continue the strong confinement and quarantine actions, but they CAN'T go on with the country half shut down. That will lose them more people than the virus. Much less the other effects of a wrecked economy.

And, I do mean wrecked. No tiddledywinks "Great Depression" for you here...

So, even if they have this epidemic slowed at the moment, they have to "go back to work" making stuff, transporting it, and so on. That will lead to more cases -- remember that at present only a tiny fraction of the populace has been infected. China has to hope they can do some sort of tightrope act of slowing the virus without doing too much economic harm, and maybe accept, say, the equivalent of a very bad flu year x 5, on top of other health care needs, on an ongoing basis. If a vaccine can be developed, maybe that gets things down to a 2x very bad flu year added on, per year.

But, just consider: Even if all you want is to not lose too many of your professional class and Party members, how many new hospitals would that take in a country of 1.3 billion people?