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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: rgarito on March 19, 2020, 11:34:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on March 19, 2020, 10:25:47 pm ---I think if folks do some research on SARS and MERS and the other coronaviruses from previous years you'll find that once you lock down transmission they kind of die of their own accord. No vaccines, they just die out. No SARS cases since 2004, and very few MERS cases. And has been said they were much worse in terms of % of infected people who ended up dying.

I recall reading that SARS died out in around 6 months (?). Unfortunately there isn't much detail I can find on exactly why they just whithered away (and probably wouldn't understand the medical details anyway), but they did. And they're all similar to COVID-19 in terms of being coronaviruses.

So again, if you want to be fearful then be my guest. But I prefer to look for facts, and be overly cautious, not fearful, in cases like this.

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Remember that COVID-19 is actually SARS-CoV-2.  It is closely related to SARS and possibly a mutation of it.

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The same species, a different strain. SARS is caused by the virus SARS-Cov, the disease (strictly syndrome) Covid-19 by the virus SARS-Cov-2.

TerminalJack505:
Here's a sobering statistic...


--- Quote ---Modeling data from China shows that 4 out of 5 people diagnosed with coronavirus contracted it from someone they didn't know

Of the many things that have happened in the past week since CNN's last town hall, Dr. Sanjay Gupta said one of the most surprising to him was new data from China that showed 80% of coronavirus patients contracted the virus from someone they didn't know.

"There is a message in there, I think for all of us," Gupta said. "We are, as I said, all dependent on each other more than ever, and more than I can certainly remember in my lifetime, and it's why we all have to behave like we have the virus ... you will be more careful, you will be more mindful, you will slow down."

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This, along with earlier reports that a person doesn't show symptoms for up to 5 days, shows, in my opinion, that people should be wearing face masks when they are out in public--to protect others!

Of course, the "experts" are saying face masks are useless but what they are likely really saying (if they are truly an expert in the matter) is that they don't want health care professionals to run out of supplies.  I fully expect for them to change their tune once the supply chain isn't so strained.

nctnico:
It has already been told many times that hands are a much more likely way to get infected. Wearing a mask just puts a big, wet infected rag on top of your face.

james_s:
If you are coughing or sneezing then wearing a face mask will help protect others, but if you are coughing or sneezing you really shouldn't be out in public at all. People buying/wearing masks necessarily is depriving people in situations where they really help from getting them.

rgarito:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 20, 2020, 12:05:33 am ---Electronics manufacturing should return to the West, IMO. Manufacturing is now highly automated, so there is little excuse not to relocate to the West other than much of the skills and infrastructure we once had is now lost.

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One word:  Chemicals.

So many environmental restrictions in the USA for a lot of the chemicals we use to build this stuff.  (and mostly for good reason).  The USA tends to use foreign countries to do our "dirty work."

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