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| bd139:
You can thank Viz for that with the fat slags. |
| jonovid:
what do you call an overreaction? not sick , not dying , not deceased , only 3 or 5 positive tests, wow mass panic, :scared: 80,000 tourists evacuated from a Vietnamese city because of only 3 or 5 positive cases. :o is this nonsensical human behavior, https://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/around-80000-tourists-evacuated-from-vietnamese-city-due-to-coronavirus.html |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: jonovid on July 31, 2020, 03:51:51 pm ---what do you call an overreaction? not sick , not dying , not deceased , only 3 or 5 positive tests, wow mass panic, :scared: 80,000 tourists evacuated from a Vietnamese city because of only 3 or 5 positive cases. :o is this nonsensical human behavior, https://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/around-80000-tourists-evacuated-from-vietnamese-city-due-to-coronavirus.html --- End quote --- Allow me the pleasure of saying "told you so" when, back in March, I posted: --- Quote ---And in some ways this is going to be like Y2K: a potentially serious issue but some big efforts made to contain it so nothing really bad happens, and then people say well, what's the fuss? It wasn't anything. --- End quote --- Look at Brazil for what these 'over-reacted' but currently relatively virus-free places could become if precautions aren't taken early and hard. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: jonovid on July 31, 2020, 03:51:51 pm ---what do you call an overreaction? not sick , not dying , not deceased , only 3 or 5 positive tests, wow mass panic, :scared: 80,000 tourists evacuated from a Vietnamese city because of only 3 or 5 positive cases. :o is this nonsensical human behavior, https://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/around-80000-tourists-evacuated-from-vietnamese-city-due-to-coronavirus.html --- End quote --- I don't know why some people seem to fail to understand basic exponentials. If one person on average passes the disease on to more than one other person, then it will spread rapidly. We call the average number of people, a single person infects, the R number, with R0 being when nothing is done: social distancing, mask wearing, contact tracing etc. In the case of COVID-19, R0 is typically around 3, so it doesn't take a genius to conclude it can spread very quickly. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
If everyone were infected tomorrow, that would be the best thing that could happen. |
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