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Location: Bay Area, CA Gender: Male Total Likes: 390 likes
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| | | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 1 on 2/27/2020 6:50 AM >
| | | From what I understand, a COVID-19 illness is basically not going to be much different than the flu for most people without underlying conditions (advanced age, respiratory/circulatory problems, etc). The primary difference is that it might be so mild at the outset that people don't realize they are even infected... which facilitates its transmission greatly. This is not SARS nor MERS. The best thing for people to do is to: 1. Focus on keeping your immune system in tip-top shape by emphasizing good nutrition, rest, and low stress. 2. Practice good hand-to-face hygiene. 3. Wash hands often, and/or use hand sanitizer. 4. Be aware of high-transmissivity circumstances/places (eg. busy, packed venues). 5. Perhaps reconsider travel plans, if not for yourself, but others that you might end up being a vector for. 6. Be doubly aware when you visit people with underlying conditions that might be seriously impacted by COVID-19. 7. Notify and visit your medical practitioner if you suspect you have been infected, and follow their advice. You don't really need N95 respirators unless you are a front-line medical worker deliberately entering into circumstances in which you will be exposing yourself to COVID-19 patients/quarantine areas. The only reason you might want to stock up on food is if you anticipate public paranoia to reach a crescendo where merchants close-up out of fear. (Read: it would not be for the realistic risk of infection assuming you are practicing good hygiene as noted above.) Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. But I am employed in the biological sciences and I get to read the papers coming out documenting the disease.
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| | | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 4 on 2/27/2020 3:01 PM >
| | | Posted by FreeLee
Are you doing anything? To prep that is, I have a supply of N95 masks for me and my family, and am buying bulk hand sanitizer tomorrow I can carry with me to using during the day.
| *giggle* if this gets going stateside only luck and a vaccine will save you. It's extremely contagious and apparently with a asymptomatic period where it can be transmitted. Face masks are almost useless in close contact; eyes and all skin need to be covered. They're wearing fully sealed pressurized biohazards suits and using level 4 decontamination procedures if available; what's that tell you? My guess is this is a bioweapon or a product of the Chinese bioweapons lab. Release was a complete goof up or a deliberate release of a inadvertantly cross contaminated weaker strain meant to test dispersal. Dispersal testing like this is common; even the US did it covertly in the late 50's in LA I believe it was.
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| | | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 6 on 2/27/2020 4:50 PM >
| | | Posted by mookster
A vaccine will save you, so will being in generally good health and practising thorough hygiene as to date the only deaths attributed to it are in people who have already compromised immune systems or underlying health problems which lead to them developing pneumonia. It's no more contagious than any other flu-like virus and spread through exactly the same means, if you're shit scared of this specific Coronavirus but don't care about the annual seasonal flu virus that kills upwards of 60,000 people a year in the USA alone then I suggest you stop being so easily lead by the sensationalist gutter press or conspiracy websites.
| Look at my Texas flu thread. There's emerging evidence it's much more contagious than the flu. Chinese stats aren't valid. Many who ha e been saved were in ICU, Without aggressive intervention the mortality rate been much higher like China; they stopped counting and started stacking. My guess SARs bad or worse... let's wait and see. Some like the Chinese Doctor who was KIA by it were young and healthy. It causes massive lung infections, all lobes and leaves a telltale X-ray, so much so they are using it for early diagnosis in symptomatic patients. This is an unique virus with the potential to mutate to an even more virulent strain in future seasons. Now that's it infecting in the free world more reliable stats will be forth coming. I'm not expert *giggle* and could be wrong. Just reading the writing on the wall... I hope I am wrong... https://khn.org/mo...-high-experts-say/
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| Steed
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| | | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 11 on 2/28/2020 4:14 AM >
| | | Posted by dtewsacrificial For those with sufficient general background to digest a plain-written journal article, here is a summary of the current state of the COVID-19 epidemic in China as of Feb 11th. It provides a better big-picture overview of the epidemic, and you will likely come away with a better placement (and proportion) of concerns, which will likely better guide your personal response to it. https://jamanetwor...ullarticle/2762130
| The article doesn't say that much about what it's like living during an epidemic, or what it would be like in the US. Americans have a lower population density than Chinese. They also have poorer access to healthcare, but know how to wash their hands. The spread would probably be slower, and you'd see isolated communities reach very high rates of infection. A major vector of infection is public gatherings, especially religious services, and it would take a few high-profile incidents before Christians come to some kind of compromise and start teleworshipping or something. I think this will be especially tough with Pence in charge, as people will continue thinking the benefits of group worship will outweigh the chances of spreading the virus. You'll also see public events like concerts and sporting events being cancelled and schedules will clear months in advance. Schools and libraries will close, and teachers and students will spend their time at home, and soon people of more jobs will be on leave. Since it's Americans there's probably already some hoarding going on, which is probably good, and most Americans have drinkable tapwater. I'm not sure if people will wear masks when they're in public, because they are ineffective and an Asian thing, but will probably take some visible precautions. There will be talk of grounding airplanes and closing borders, although that's been going on for years -- but Trump will be criticised for not actually doing it, even by Democrats looking for political points. And that's around where Seoul is so I can't really predict farther than that.
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| | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 17 on 2/28/2020 5:19 PM >
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| | | | Re: OT - Coronavirus and a comunity question < Reply # 19 on 2/28/2020 8:44 PM >
| | | Posted by stealthwraith
Cool...now my broke self can buy
| Lol, I need to wait till they're dropping like flies And still have to buy on the margin... -&- Announcing... The blackhawk coronavirus* Meet, Freak, Texas Get infected Together Meet blackhawk* and die within 30 days or less**. No need to suppress coughing fits or to cover anything. This will be the ultimate in bonding; thoughts, bodies and of coarse the coronavirus. Bonus, anyone with active polio gets the door prize. A really pissed off blue ring octopus! *meet up date dependant on blackhawk getting infected on a timely basis with a highly communicable deadly pathogen. Common flu strain may be substituted but will try to supply at least ebola or bubonic plague if coronavirus is unavailable. **will try to supply more than one deadly pathogen. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own nasty communicable party favors in the Disease X category.
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