Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

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#2,577
VolStrom said:
There won't be. Once it shows up it'll be just like the flu, some people get it and some don't. China tried to contain it, but it's out now and God knows where it will stop.
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I agree about the it's like the flu.

Basically gonna have to live life and hope you are the 98% that lives thru it. Callous, but true.
 
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So far this flu season, about 0.05% of people who caught the flu have died from the virus in the U.S., according to CDC data.

The death rate for COVID-19 appears to be higher than that of the flu.

In the study published Feb. 18 in the China CDC Weekly, researchers found a death rate from COVID-19 to be around 2.3% in mainland China. That's much higher than the death rate linked to flu, which is typically around 0.1% in the U.S., according to The New York Times.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Neither does coronavirus, unless you're old.

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The mortality rate is the mortality rate, same as for flu.

The flu has already killed 10,000 across US as world frets over coronavirus

The coronavirus outbreak, however, is proving to be more deadly than the flu. It has killed roughly 2% of the people who have contracted it so far, according to world health officials. That compares with a mortality rate of 0.095% for the flu in the U.S., according to CDC estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season.

“Two percent case fatality is still a tough case fatality when you compare it to the case fatality for the seasonal flu or other things,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program, told reporters Wednesday.
“A relatively mild virus can cause a lot of damage if a lot of people get it,” he added. “And this is the issue at the moment. We don’t fully understand it.”
 
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UT_VOLS13 said:
China bans human consumption and trade of wild animals
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Doesn't seem like it's the wild animals they need to worry about. Guess where China studies viruses ... and maybe manufactures them.

And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.

You heard me right.

Instead of properly disposing of infected animals by cremation, as the law requires, they sell them on the side to make a little extra cash. Or, in some cases, a lot of extra cash. One Beijing researcher, now in jail, made a million dollars selling his monkeys and rats on the live animal market, where they eventually wound up in someone’s stomach.
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Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab

Don't know anything about this source, but the same story is being distributed by several outlets.
 
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#2,588
The Senate is going to receive a classified briefing on the virus tomorrow from HHS, DHS, CDC, NIH and State.
 
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#2,591
VolStrom said:
There is no stopping this virus. It's going to work it's way around the world until it gets defeated by peoples own immune systems. Even though I'm older, I bet my immune system is stronger than most peoples are. I didn't wash my hands every ten minutes, I drank out of a green water hose and a public fountain, my drinking water comes out of the tap. People can go on and on about what is better for themselves, but going outside and camping and playing and hiking exposes people to things the video game generation never sees.
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The majority of antibiotics come from the soil. It probably helped you and me to eat dirt when we were young, and not wash our hands. I played basketball almost every day on an outdoor court and chewed my fingernails.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
This isn't true. You can't go off of 2 months of CCP numbers. Another 4 weeks and we're really going to see what's going on with this stuff from governments that won't lie.
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It's already killed two Chinese doctors who were working on this and they weren't "old".
 
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#2,598
VolStrom said:
I'll come visit your burning ceremony.
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Out like a Viking!
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