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Covid 19 virus
Cerebus:
The Chinese response is probably down to previous experience with SARS (also a coronavirus) back in 2002-2003 - a rare example of a political entity learning from history.
SARS is an interesting exemplar for what is happening at the moment. In 2002 the UK implemented screening at UK airports and if necessary quarantine. The UK had a grand total of 4 confirmed reported SARS cases (the Chinese, the hardest hit, 5000+ cases for comparison). The UK is responding similarly this time around and at the moment the UK has had 39 cases of covid-19 recorded and China 80,000 - ratios of 1:1250 (SARS) and 1:2000 (covid-19), not wildly dissimilar. If the similarities keep up then sorry Canada you're in for a bad time (251 SARS cases in 2002-2003, 29 covid-19 cases so far).
Bud:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 03, 2020, 03:23:21 am ---Yes, a lot of people will die, but there is a stupendous number of humans on this planet;
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Ready to write this on your loved one's tombstone if they die from the virus ?
metrologist:
Just a minor quibble.
COVID-19 is the illness/disease
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: Bud on March 03, 2020, 04:43:17 am ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 03, 2020, 03:23:21 am ---Yes, a lot of people will die, but there is a stupendous number of humans on this planet;
--- End quote ---
Ready to write this on your loved one's tombstone if they die from the virus ?
--- End quote ---
Why not? They will die eventually anyway; it is only a matter of when. So will I. Do you not realize this?
(As a matter of fact, I would like to be disposed of in the manner shown in the 1996 movie Fargo; with my frozen body fed through a woodchipper. It is better than burning, because the heavy metals accumulated in my body would be spread around rather than released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, all my siblings and friends have absolutely refused to do it, probably because it would be rather messy.)
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: metrologist on March 03, 2020, 04:52:51 am ---Just a minor quibble.
COVID-19 is the illness/disease
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19
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That makes as much sense as calling the virus HIV and the illness/disease AIDS. Because of the distinction, lots of people are dead (because they claimed the two are unrelated).
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