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1Ghz:
South Korea records its biggest daily jump in infections https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/coronavirus-latest-updates-china-hubei.html

It's getting worse day by day. :(
Total infections is now 3000+!
Stray Electron:
  Yeap, and the number of cases in Germany jumped from 49 to 60. That's a 22+% increase in two days. And France has jumped from 38 to 57. That's a 50% increase in the last two days! Anyone that understands anything about geometric progression knows where this is leading. Japan who has been treating this very serious for weeks now has had 20 new cases in the last 24 hours.  And China is still getting something like 500 new cases everyday, for weeks nows.

   The US has added at least three possibly four new cases and they're had very tight travel restrictions, quarantining and monitoring in place for weeks. The reports says that there are only THREE new cases in the US but the total was 54 for over a week and now it's 63 so somewhere, they also snuck in 6 more cases in addition to the three reported ones.

   The CDC tried to move a bunch of infected patients from Travis AFB to a city in California with the  city's knowledge or consent, claiming that they needed more room, but the city got wind of it and has filed a federal lawsuit to block the move. The US also has at least twenty known quarantine sites, which seems like a lot for only for only 63 people!  Obviously they're expecting this to get much worse before it gets better.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
GlennSprigg:
Why are the Chinese Government attacking Australia, for being over zealous???
This is not a fucking GAME!!  It has now crossed the lines to being a PANDEMIC.
There is NOTHING 'racist' about protecting one's country-folk.
donotdespisethesnake:

--- Quote from: 0xdeadbeef on February 28, 2020, 03:57:56 pm ---Sorry, I kinda mistook this for a serious discussion. Guess I was wrong. So I'm outta here and leave this to the prophets of the apocalypse.

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Well, thanks for being "calm and rational"  :-DD

Some genuinely calm and rational commentary :  Is Coronavirus ‘Like a Strong Flu’?   (Rated: "misleading").

The article doesn't have soundbite conclusions, and is worth reading in full. Some excerpts:


--- Quote ---But in a Feb. 26 interview in London, Oliver Baete, CEO of the Germany-based multinational financial services company Allianz SE, told Bloomberg News that the reaction was overblown.

“There is a lot of panic at the moment that is really not warranted,” he said. “If you think about the fundamental health impacts, they are significant but it is not like we have a real pandemic. It’s like a strong flu.”
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--- Quote ---Indeed, as coronavirus cases continue to emerge globally, scientists are urgently studying its characteristics, but it may be too soon to draw conclusions about fatality rates, transmission and who is most vulnerable to infection or complications.

“There are so many huge unknowns about this outbreak,” said Professor Mark Woolhouse of Edinburgh University told The Guardian this month. “For example, we don’t know just how infectious people are before they show symptoms. That makes it impossible to predict what is going to happen.”

“The trouble is, this outbreak is caused by a very different virus. And unlike flu, there are no vaccines or treatments and, crucially, no pre-existing immunity in the population.”
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All quotes 100% genuine  :-+


Leo Bodnar:
Nature is doing what it's doing best. 
And humans are not, necessarily, a guaranteed part of its long term plan, whatever we think.

It's definitely spreading in a predictable way, however everybody seems to be surprised that it does...

We can get over this but it needs everybody to put some efforts in.

Stay safe, sane, and civil, guys. 

Leo

--- Quote from: 1Ghz on February 29, 2020, 10:03:55 am ---It's getting worse day by day. :(

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