Posted on 02/24/2020 1:10:49 PM PST by 11th_VA
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain
(big snip)
The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, “Actually, let me start again.” So it’s striking when one of the points he wanted to get exactly right was this: “I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.”
…Lipsitch predicts that, within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
It has.
Just in Africa.
Did you feel personally insulted? Is that why you sent that private mail to me?
Poor thing.
Sorry, but there isn’t sufficient data yet to support the claim you’ve made. The one study that has been published, based on incomplete data, suggests that Asians might be more susceptible, but that environmental factors are a more significant factor than race. It certainly does NOT say that it primarily affects Chinese or that it is genetically disposed to do so. If you have better data, please, by all means, share it. If not, then to quote the mail you sent, ‘Phuck you’.
This ignores the idea that it is not a virus. Instead is the result of 5G in china
Beginning to wonder what effect the coronavirus news will have on the upcoming primary election day turnouts. Super Tuesday only one week away.
“How about a heart attack in your old age when the current version of the Browns get into the Super Bowl?”
Sounds as good as any exit to me. The heart attack could happen, the Browns going to the Super Bowl, not as long as Jimmy the crook Haslam owns the team.
See post 198
Not much hotter than some parts of Asia with it now.
“make another beer run before duct-taping all the doors and windows shut.........”
Make sure the Mosin is loaded and ready to incinerate the virus! ;)
“Well, that which doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger!”
EXCEPT BEARS. Bears will just kill you.
Read up instead of insulting me.
I’ve got nothing else to say other than to knock off the personal insults. Read up on the subject ok? Before mouthing off.
I didn’t insult you personally. I dissed your unsubstantiated claim. There is a difference. Read up on the subject, ok?
I could insult you, but I’d rather have you support your claims instead. Let’s see your study. You made the claim, defend it.
Either that, or it will fester and be a monumental disaster when they finally notice.
some Chinese officials are warning that the antibodies in some patients don’t last very long
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Thanks for providing the link but I don’t get my medical information from Chinese “officials”, whatever the f* that even is. Not Chinese doctors, notice, but Chinese “officials”.
I’m going to curb my hysteria until something a little more substantive comes in.
But I asked for a link and you provided one. Thanks again.
Thanks for providing links to interesting reading.
After reading both of them, I don’t attach a high degree of credibility to them, but they are interesting and I do thank you.
Nope. Knowledgeable people are controlling the outbreaks.
It is airborne and does not even need to be inhaled, but merely drift into your eyes.
Airborne? How large a droplet needs to be for this virus to survive? I don't think they know that yet.
I hope I am very wrong about this,
Considering it's mostly speculation, you are probably wrong.
Bttt!
This all reminds me of that Eminem song where he says he’s got full blown aids and a sore throat. That’s what I call a bad day.
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