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Corona virus (more correctly, Wuhan virus)


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2020 Jan 24, 12:33pm   195,254 views  3,372 comments

by Heraclitusstudent   ➕follow (8)   💰tip   ignore  

Anyone wants to risk a bet on the eventual number of sick people? Dead people?

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79   CBOEtrader   2020 Jan 29, 12:23pm  

HeadSet says
Wonder if, for example, Blacks or another group may be less susceptible to Coronavirus, while Asians are more susceptible.


Good thing I identify as black
82   Heraclitusstudent   2020 Jan 29, 5:29pm  

We now have new infections going on outside China. The virus now spreads from multiple points on the planet.
Containment failed so far.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
"Health officials on Tuesday reported what appear to be the first known cases of human-to-human transmission of the virus in Europe — specifically, in Germany — and in Japan. Another case was recently reported in Vietnam.

The cases show that countries across the world are now faced with the task of limiting the spread of the disease on their own soil, not just seeking to identify and quarantine ailing patients who had traveled from China."
83   Booger   2020 Jan 29, 6:11pm  

Still has killed less people than Hillary.
84   Booger   2020 Jan 29, 6:19pm  

We're all going to die from a virus before the sex robots hit the market at a reasonable price? Life is so unfair.
85   Booger   2020 Jan 29, 6:19pm  

For perspective - 2019-2020 US Influenza Stats:

15,000,000 – 21,000,000 cases in the US alone

140,000 – 250,000 hospitalizations in the US

8,200 – 20,000 deaths in the US

Yet somehow the news media has become obsessed with a virus that has only killed ~200 people worldwide.

This appears to be a drill for Chinese martial law more than anything else.
86   WookieMan   2020 Jan 29, 6:50pm  

Booger says
This appears to be a drill for Chinese martial law more than anything else.

Someone buy this guy dinner!

We have more people still voluntarily killing themselves smoking cigarettes than Corona or the flu virus combined throughout the world, yet we and everyone still sells smokes. Let me know when this reaches 6 figure death tolls in a country of 1B+. 100k DEATHS would be .01% of the population or less of China. This is hype to the extreme. 97% of people afflicted will live. And if you break down the demographics and health of those infected it's likely that 99.5% of anyone infected with this hype will survive no different than the flu if you're 10-50 years of age. This is alarmingly stupid.

And even if it's the fucking apocalypse, WTF is anyone gonna do about it? The fake concern is hysterical to me.
87   clambo   2020 Jan 29, 7:18pm  

I recall in Dr. Strangelove general Turgington says that we can survive nuclear war “It’s not as if we won’t get our hair mussed, but we’ll lose 15 or 20 million, tops!”
88   RC2006   2020 Jan 29, 8:06pm  

Seams to be 2-4% death rate at its epicenter, but what if China is lying and it's more like at 10%? If this virus is worse than they say how long would it take for the truth to come out?

I could see something like this doing a lot more damage in poorer more disorganized counties.
95   Heraclitusstudent   2020 Jan 30, 8:38am  

This is not funny.
96   Heraclitusstudent   2020 Jan 30, 11:51am  

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-coronavirus-may-help-boost-162956718.html
"China's coronavirus may help boost U.S. jobs - Ross"

Because we know virus stop at frontiers....
97   Bd6r   2020 Jan 30, 12:37pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Because we know virus stop at frontiers....

He is right - funeral house and crematorium job numbers will skyrocket. We should all get a MS in Cinerary Sciences instead of learning to code.
98   RWSGFY   2020 Jan 30, 12:48pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Because we know virus stop at frontiers....


They do if the movement of people across the border is controlled or halted. It used to be a common practice to quarantine the crews and passengers of arriving ships for weeks on end.
99   RWSGFY   2020 Jan 30, 1:12pm  

"China has quarantined 60 million people—more than the population of our West Coast. They’ve shut down schools indefinitely. Hong Kong has slashed travel from the mainland. We must immediately stop all travel on commercial aircraft between China & the United States." -- Sen. Tom Cotton.
100   RWSGFY   2020 Jan 30, 3:14pm  

DALLAS (AP) — The pilots' union at American Airlines sued on Thursday to stop the carrier from flying to China and told members not to operate flight s there because of the spreading coronavirus outbreak.

The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American’s 15,000 pilots, asked a state district court in Dallas for an injunction to halt the flights. The union cited declarations by international health experts that the virus is a public health emergency.

https://m.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/American-Airlines-pilots-sue-to-halt-flights-to-15017728.php#photo-18940429
101   Booger   2020 Jan 30, 3:31pm  

The_Weeping_Ayatollah says
China has quarantined 60 million people


And if all of them die, the world population will still end up greater by the end of this year.
103   Hircus   2020 Jan 30, 7:39pm  

Looks like the daily growth rate keeps tapering off these past few days, although it's still about 25% or so.
104   Heraclitusstudent   2020 Jan 30, 10:52pm  

That's the thing: it's not that easy to infect large number of people nowadays.
They panic, stay home, wear masks and other protections, stop traveling. Other measures like closing school cut contagion links.
And the more deaths, the tougher the measures.
105   marcus   2020 Jan 30, 10:57pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
And the more deaths, the tougher the measures.


Right. And the death rate doesn't seem high at all, low in fact. What is it 2 point something percent ?

For that reason I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of infected continue to rise exponentially for a while. The very young, very old and people with weakened immune systems need to be protected for a while. If I was in one of those categories, or a caretaker for someone in one of those categories, I would be very careful until this passes.
110   Patrick   2020 Jan 31, 9:29am  

@HEYYOU try logging out, and then logging in to https://patrick.net instead of https://www.patrick.net
111   Ceffer   2020 Jan 31, 10:16am  

It's the "DIE, BOOMFUCK, FUCKING DIE ALREADY" virus.
113   HeadSet   2020 Jan 31, 10:28am  

RC2006 says
Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721


Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"
114   RC2006   2020 Jan 31, 10:33am  

HeadSet says
RC2006 says
Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721


Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"


Next year they will have gun mounts and be shooting people.
115   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jan 31, 11:09am  

P.F. Chang picked a terrible time to launch their Crispy Bat Wings in Spicey Civet Sauce entree.
116   RWSGFY   2020 Jan 31, 11:34am  

RC2006 says
HeadSet says
RC2006 says
Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721


Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"


Next year they will have gun mounts and be shooting people.


Dealing with the recoil would be a bitch.
117   HeadSet   2020 Jan 31, 12:17pm  

Dealing with the recoil would be a bitch.

Hellfire missiles, then. Its been done.

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