Tocky on 4/3/2020 at 03:52
I think we all know we are the most prevalent form of life on earth aside from insects so viruses are tailoring themselves to us. We know the likely eventuality of what that will lead to. We expect it eventually so every time something pops up we think this is the time. Sorry to go all logical but toilet licking was taken.
On a personal note I'm not entirely sure my wife and I didn't already have this one. All the month of January we had some respiratory thing that had us coughing and congested to the point of it being difficult to breathe. We were wheezing in normal breathing and sometimes fits of coughing so bad you got dizzy from lack of air. I don't know. My company does get stuff from China but surely it would have to have a better medium than hard surfaces. On the other hand we all get some form of food from there at times right? It was so bad your chest muscles ached and you had to cough over a trash can because you would not be able to close your mouth for so long you began to drool. God forbid someone said something funny. All laughing ended in coughing and begging for death.
Sulphur on 4/3/2020 at 05:07
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Poll removed - this is not the place for a US-centric political poll in a thread about a global concern.
If I could +1 this, you'd have all of them.
Nicker on 4/3/2020 at 05:22
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I think we all know we are the most prevalent form of life on earth aside from insects so viruses are tailoring themselves to us.
"It is self evident that our host was perfectly designed to support life as we know it!" -
KentHovid19.nickie on 4/3/2020 at 09:07
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Thank you kindly.
On my personal note, I have relatives in Seattle, California, Puerto Rico and Australia and I want to keep up to date. The virus would definitely kill bloke and probably kill me and the in-laws. And then what would happen to the puppy. Although it's highly unlikely it will come to where we are, we do travel. One place we go to is Reading and there is now one case about 3 miles from where my son lives. One case wouldn't stop us visiting but we need proper information about circumstances to make proper decisions, not squirming Trump videos contradicting what the experts say. Luckily we don't have a Trump here.
Hope you're feeling better now Tocky. There is some information that is suggesting the virus can remain on hard surfaces for up to 9 days but I've no idea whether that applies to packages.
demagogue on 4/3/2020 at 09:59
Ugh, I have more than a few old friends that think the reporting on Corona is only media hyperbole to embarass Trump and a nothing burger like Sars or H1N1, like this is just like those past cases, nothing to worry about, but because they happened on Obama's watch and this is happening on Trump's watch, the media pretends it's more serious to score political zing points.
I'm not an epidemiologist, so I can't say exactly how the profile of this illness differs from past cases, I just know that the warnings are coming not from the media but medical professionals. And they're not actually being too hyperbolic, but they are saying this has a chance to disrupt normal life for a period in a way we haven't seen in the past.
And politicizing this is going to make things worse not just for them but their communities. These are the kind of people I would believe would actively not take precautions just to make a point and put more people at risk.
Thirith on 4/3/2020 at 10:23
My wife's father is a GP, he's in his late 70s and he will never, ever retire, even at gunpoint. His health isn't great and he smokes. We're not particularly worried about ourselves, since we don't belong to any of the groups at risk, but I think my wife is quite worried that her dad is at risk in several ways at once.
bob_doe_nz on 4/3/2020 at 12:39
Dumbasses panic buying bog roll over the last week. Like it's going out of fashion. And canned food, rice, dry goods and bottled water.
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If people can't or don't want to go out any more (e.g. if they're put under quarantine), then they'll need food, water and toilet paper. Simple enough.
Thirith on 4/3/2020 at 13:39
Italy's announced that it's closing its schools, at least until 13 March.
Big events here in Switzerland are being cancelled, including the big carnivals that were planned for the last week or so. In the city where I live, we always have a Museum Night at the end of March; it's not been announced yet, but I suspect they'll cancel that one as well. Lectures in the big lecture halls are being done by podcast. The Swiss National Science Foundation is putting a few millions into a call for papers that is opening in a few days and will be open until the end of the month. Obviously you've got people everywhere saying that 'they' (whoever they are) are handling things badly, but I have to say that, ignoring the louder, more populist media for a moment, official reactions have been pretty measured, indicating that while this isn't the end of the world, it's better that we take it seriously now and act accordingly, when we can still do something to minimise the impact.
