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Coronavirus Outbreak
Wobble73:
Aww shame, we could have gone for a pint.
:pimp: :yes:
karajorma:
--- Quote from: Wobble73 on February 04, 2020, 07:40:00 am ---I'm on the Wirral where the British evacuees from China are being quarantined here in the UK. :nervous:
Why the Wirral? It happens to be a peninsular so easier to quarantine the whole area, and is close to the Royal Liverpool Hospital where the have wards to quarantine infected patients.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/ive-been-walking-stairs-for-exercise-life-under-coronavirus-quarantine
Sounds like a pretty **** life. I did say earlier that if it had happened in Xi'an I'd have stayed rather than be evacuated.
MP-Ryan:
Influenza has a faster spread and higher mortality rate. In short, don't panic about coronavirus but DO go get your damn flu shot (it's free in many countries).
Scourge of Ages:
--- Quote from: The E on January 27, 2020, 01:39:01 am ---It's quite a bit more serious than that though. This particular bug has an incubation period of 11 days or so and is infectious during it, meaning that people carrying it will infect others during that time. That makes it extraordinarily difficult to control the spread of the infection; if the chinese quarantine measures seem harsh, it's because anything less than that can't work.
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I'd say it's not the transmission or fatality that makes it scary, it's this long incubation period that makes it so easy to possibly escape containment which makes it worrying...
In other news, is anybody else playing Plague, Inc.?
karajorma:
https://nextshark.com/plague-inc-increase-sales-amid-coronavirus/
All of China apparently.
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