300 cases in China and already known spread to some of SE Asia ,
now it appears the new Coronavirus
has probably reached Aussie and the US.
(there are reports that has been confirmed)


If that's true , with people reaching virtually every corner of the occupied world within 24 hours , most places within 12 ,
there's a high chance it is already in other places.

So probably
the only question now is ;
How quickly can they develope a control ,
and then vaccine protection ?

As a side note , I think our government is being a bit ignorant ,
burying the head in the sandish .
Oh there's no reason to be alarmed and start taking precautions yet.

I suspect that will have changed very quickly by tonight's news.
It'll be , " oh we have re-evaluated the evidence".
Fucking bunnies.
There could be 5 to 10 or more planeloads with infected Asians here , direct from China , by now ,
and they're not even watching .

 

Do you have any idea how many of these we have had in the US? We get them from every corner of the world, including the string of third world countries directly below ours that stretches past the damn equator.

SARS, swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, hentavirus, norovirus, and I'm sure plenty I'm forgetting. It seems like once a month some cruise ship that departed from the US had an outbreak of norovirus. These diseases don't go away or stop existing. We just do what we can to contain them.

You people talk like this is new. Maybe it is for you but not for us.

 

Given how deeply SARS affected us, you’d think Canada’s response to the situation would have been more swift and more definitive, but it wasn’t.

Mystifying, really.

Fingers crossed this is handled quickly.

 

Travel restrictions?

 

There will almost certainly be another major life threatening, earth depopulating pandemic. Especially given the large compact populations around the world. But this latest scare probably won’t be it. The real one will spread much faster.

 

Well there's one case in the US now. Washington State. But the movie Contagion comes to my mind. All it takes is one..

 

We will see. There hasn’t been a major pandemic in about 100 years. That killed millions. We are definitely overdue.

 

Wake me when u see your first brain eating Zombie... At it's worst the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918-1920 infected about 500 million ppl... Estimates range from 50-100 million died... About 2.5-3% of the world's population at the time... A mortality rate of 10-20%... I happen to believe it was closer to 10% than 20%
Point here is this... These so call pandemics happen and there really is little we can do to stop them... Personally, I think its nature's way of thinning the herd. Most of the time it's the sick an infirm that die.. Healthy children are at risk only because their immune systems is not developed enough. The more we fight to suppress these viruses the more dangerous the next one the comes thru will be. Nature is a real bitch... And she will win in the end....

 

These things move super fast. When the real one comes, millions will likely die before technology can get ahead of it. I’ll let others worry about the ozone layer and the whales and climate change. This is an historically inevitable event and what I choose to worry about. Maybe Greta will be safe on her yacht in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Or maybe if she contracts the disease she can add it to the things she will never forgive us for.

 

Do people really not understand that any of these could have been and still can be a pandemic? It's not like a weather event or something that eventually dies or ends. Pretty much every disease that has ever existed still exists.

 

In a world so urban as today’s. I can see this spreading even more quickly. But it’s not presently immediate and it’s not a sexy cause that can be laid at big business’ door or directed at first world economies. So there will not be a political movement to address it until afterward.

 

Heard on the news this morning that the US is working on a vaccine, it's at least one year away.

 

She's whining again in Davos

 

A lot of these things seem to originate in China

 

She’s pretty young so she will likely survive the next pandemic and will likely blame it on climate change. To her this is the one and only problem in the world. I envy her. Life is so simple and there is but one enemy that can easily be defeated if we are all willing to give up any kind of joy and embrace freezing in the dark

 

It's not looking like a rapid spreader , at the moment ,
nor a rapid killer.

The known American sufferer , returned to the US from Hunan on the 15th and didn't seek medical advice untill the 19th ,
4 days (just reported it was actually 5 days) ,
and now is the 21/22nd
7/8 days on , he's still ok , and no-one else showed up yet .

Let's hope it stays that way , and that it is curable , or non fatal to most.

Meantime , how many he infected , while traveling , and around home before being isolated will likely tell a lot about the disease ,
it's incubation period and so on.
(I haven't seen any mention of how long he was in China for , so no idea what the incubation period peramiters might be)

 

After the SARS incident, there have been big improvements in communication and clarity between countries in this regard plus there have been many improvements in detection and treatment

 

Is that winning or whinning!

I listened to your glorious leader bitching about the fact that a 17 year old girl beat him to the cover of Time magazine!

Disingenuous!

Thinskin

 

I had the correct spelling dumbass, ...pretty lame attempt on your part to come in and whine...24 hours later SMH....didnt you already say your going to beddy bie,

 

Sure hope not. I'm sure we are not being told the real story.