SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, calscuf said:

This is serious.

Do you have any idea how big FS’ boner will be?  They’re saying it will engulf much of the Southland.

Who are "They"?

[tdawg87]

I didn't know you spoke ebonics

[tdawg87]

38 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I’m quite cultured.

That's pretty sexy, not gonna lie.

[Lhalo]

 

[fan_since79]

Got some coronavirus, all gonna die

Life is in short supply, not gonna lie

Ev'ry one lay down, look at the sky

Bitch will not save you, just say goodbye.

 

CoronaRap!

 

 

[T.G.]

I bet Windex can kill this crap.

[fan_since79]

Harvard epidemiologist weighs in...

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...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

[RallyMo]

7 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Harvard epidemiologist weighs in...

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...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

I was just about to post this. It's not great.

[T.G.]

37 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

 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...

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

When you consider how many people are in China - that doesn't seem far fetched...

[Slegnaac]

2 hours ago, True Grich said:

I bet Windex can kill this crap.

Works on ants.....

[AngelsLongBall]

On 2/23/2020 at 3:15 PM, calscuf said:

This is serious.

Do you have any idea how big FS’ boner will be?  They’re saying it will engulf much of the Southland.

[Lhalo]

I’m thinking the Olympics are going to get cancelled. 
 

https://time.com/5786657/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-asia-china/

[Tank]

34 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

I’m thinking the Olympics are going to get cancelled. 
 

https://time.com/5786657/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-asia-china/

wow, I hadn't even considered that. good thing others are planning ahead.

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

I’m thinking the Olympics are going to get cancelled. 
 

https://time.com/5786657/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-asia-china/

Too much money involved.  If anything they will be even more strict on who they let in the country.  The question is going to be how far will they go.  

[Tank]

we had the worry of the zika virus for rio, and i think everyone came through that one okay.

the olympics don't start until august so hopefully the coronavirus will be under control by then.

[Angel Oracle]

What is it about Coronavirus that has people more worried than ever about viruses?     The number of people living in the country of its' origin?

[gotbeer]

10 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

What is it about Coronavirus that has people more worried than ever about viruses?     The number of people living in the country of its' origin?

https://www.sciencealert.com/coronavirus

Says Coronavirus was discovered in the 1960's.  But I think it's the death part that has people worried.  Mers, and Sars are also coronavirus' that caused death.

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

Unless I'm mistaken Zika was transmitted via mosquito bites and mothers who were infected transmitting it to their children when giving birth.  I think what scares people about the Corona Virus is how little they really know about it, it started in China where there's over 1B people sometimes in unsanitary conditions and the fact that it's transmitted from person to person.  They thought 14 days was adequate time for people to show signs of it and apparently they were wrong because people released after that tested positive later.  I'm anything but a health expert but when I see reports that they're trying to bring back people from cruise ships or overseas and placing them in Costa Mesa and other parts of the country I wonder why they aren't putting them all in one area.  Doesn't seem to me that bringing them to the greater Los Angeles area is a wise choice in case it spreads.  I think for the greater good anyone infected should have be held in quarantine as long as needed.  The mortality rate sounds low if what China is reporting is close to true but if it hits a large population and isn't contained the elderly, kids and those with weakened immune systems could result in a lot of deaths. 

[well_red]

9 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

What is it about Coronavirus that has people more worried than ever about viruses?     The number of people living in the country of its' origin?

4 strains of the coronavirus are responsible for variations of the common cold.  3 others are SARS, MERS and now this one.  SARS had a death rate of 10% but only infected a few thousand people, MERS had a death rate of 30% but infected even less, so they didn't transmit so easily between people.  This one seems to transmit more like the common cold with around 80,000 cases already.  The death rate is lower, around 2-3%, but if this thing transmits all the way around the globe then imagine 2-3% of the world dying because of it (hundreds of millions of people).  

[Lhalo]

 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-virus-deaths-rise-15-deputy-minister-among-155727668.html

Something like this is impossible to contain if everyone isn't honest and on the same page.  

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

Unless I'm mistaken Zika was transmitted via mosquito bites and mothers who were infected transmitting it to their children when giving birth.  I think what scares people about the Corona Virus is how little they really know about it, it started in China where there's over 1B people sometimes in unsanitary conditions and the fact that it's transmitted from person to person.  They thought 14 days was adequate time for people to show signs of it and apparently they were wrong because people released after that tested positive later.  I'm anything but a health expert but when I see reports that they're trying to bring back people from cruise ships or overseas and placing them in Costa Mesa and other parts of the country I wonder why they aren't putting them all in one area.  Doesn't seem to me that bringing them to the greater Los Angeles area is a wise choice in case it spreads.  I think for the greater good anyone infected should have be held in quarantine as long as needed.  The mortality rate sounds low if what China is reporting is close to true but if it hits a large population and isn't contained the elderly, kids and those with weakened immune systems could result in a lot of deaths. 

Putting contagious folks around others sounds like something Gavin Newsom would do.

[gotbeer]

2 hours ago, Catwhoshatinthehat said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-virus-deaths-rise-15-deputy-minister-among-155727668.html

Something like this is impossible to contain if everyone isn't honest and on the same page.  

Let's hope it doesn't spread to politicians then.  If it does, we are all doomed.

[Tank]

34 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Let's hope it doesn't spread to politicians then.  If it does, we are all doomed.

[T.G.]

Now it's hitting baseball too!

Effin' Sox.

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-put-prospect-in-quarantine-amid-coronavirus-fears-214839155.html