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Covid 19 virus
paulca:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 12, 2020, 09:13:58 pm ---Yes the bigger problem is the idiots panic buying. I have several weeks of food already. I will buy no more.
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This is why I now refer to the whole thing as the zombie apocalypse. Not because of the virus, but because of how people are reacting to it. I can actually see it become quite dangerous to be out in public in the coming days. The virus you can defend against with some sense and hygiene. The idiots will be much harder to defend against if they go postal.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 12, 2020, 09:22:35 pm ---By the way, is it "coronavirus" or "corona virus"?
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It's a "coronavirus", one of the family of coronaviruses which contains about 40 species. What we're loosely calling Covid-19 is strictly the name of the disease it causes and the virus causing it is SARS-CoV-2 a strain of the species "Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus", subgenus Sarbecovirus, genus Betacoronavirus, family "Coronaviridae", order Nidovirales, relam Riboviria.
TerminalJack505:
--- Quote from: whalphen on March 12, 2020, 08:43:22 pm ---I think it would be interesting to try to project when we would run out of hospital beds based on this growth pattern. A number of factors would come into play, such as number of beds, % in use, turnover of beds, location of beds vs. hotspots, etc. Just eyeballing the numbers without careful calculations and by making broad assumptions, it looks to me like the US health system could be overwhelmed early next month.
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Here's an article that "runs the numbers" both for (U.S.) hospital beds and face masks--the two resources that are most likely to be overwhelmed when/if things get worse.
--- Quote --- If 20% of cases require hospitalization, we run out of beds by about May 4. If only 5% of cases require it, we can make it until about May 16, and a 2.5% rate gets us to May 22.
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Electro Detective:
One can sense at street level from listening in on hot wind powered chats, that another Idiot Apocalypse is slowly gaining some ground,
but so far many are still so-o-0 unsure, :-//
and fear the embarrassment of being fooled again :-[ more than they do a few sniffles, headaches, skin rash, dunny runs.. or even death itself :scared:
That's a good thing imho, and keeps the rabble under control till this blows over and the next one kicks off.. in 2022 ? :popcorn:
shakalnokturn:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 12, 2020, 09:22:35 pm ---Anecdotally, the virus appears to be rampant in France despite the statistics. I just found out a relative in France has got the corona virus. Also, my daughter lives in France (she does not have the virus) and said some client walked into her work and told the judge she has the virus and will spread it on purpose because she has contempt for the French court system. The woman was arrested and tested as positive. Seems like the virus can be used as a weapon.
By the way, is it "coronavirus" or "corona virus"? If seems both terms are used, with the former being more popular. It seems the bad spelling is spreading faster than the virus itself. Why would Anglophones join the two distinct words together when there is no reason to do so? Itseemsratheroddtome.
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France is minimising the impact, economical reasons and upcoming elections this weekend.
People who lived in France through the Chernobyl event should have learnt how much they can't trust their government and media to protect and inform them.
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