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Bud:

--- Quote from: angrybird on March 05, 2020, 05:02:43 pm ---I thought that the established belief was that the masks only reduce the infected from spreading the infection as wide, but don't really serve to protect the uninfected wearing one due to the various infection vectors?

I'm saving my N95 masks for drywall and masonry work |O

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If the masks can reduce the risk, say, by just 1%, and you live in a high risk area, you will not give a mask to your elder mom and dad just because, you know, it is "ineffective" ?

We are only brave until Death will knock *our* door.
angrybird:
For 1%?  I'll tell them to stay home.  1% is "in the noise floor" IMHO

If you start worrying about 1%, you'll never go anywhere and never get anything done!  Worry about real numbers.  20% seems significant.  10% maybe worrisome.  50% significantly worrisome?  99% is a definite decision maker  ;)
aargee:
I think that's fine if you want to take the risk. Travel from here puts you in situations where you have little choice to avoid infection.
Metal tubes filled with people or cruise ships with a ready source of captive hosts from the virus point of view.
Sure, you will survive but then there's the price of quarantine if you're found to have it, nothing better than getting a few days into the trip of a lifetime to find you are put under house arrest or hospitalised for weeks and then they close the borders.
I think a bigger question is the medium to long term effects, when people are financially impacted and the roll on effect as they stop spending money. This can affect the economy as a whole.
angrybird:
Well, I guess we will see since I got tickets a few days ago and will be all over two different asian regions in the coming months.  Not china, though :D

In the USA there won't be any "house arrest" for illnesses like this, they literally let HIV/Hepatitis/etc infected drug addicts shoot up in the streets in many cities now.  I'm sure people will be asked to voluntarily "isolate", but for as low as the mortality rate is looking for this illness, unless it suddently gets worse I wouldn't even expect many people to maintain this isolation.  From the numbers right now, it really doesn't look like a big deal.
VK3DRB:

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--- Quote from: Zucca on March 05, 2020, 02:50:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: angrybird on March 05, 2020, 01:47:39 pm ---I love my trips to this country so very much.

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Right know you could have a luxury room at the Canal Grande in Venice for about 80€, regular price before COVID19 was 253€.

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Its a great time for long distance flights. Its easy to get a whole row to yourself, and sleep in comfort.

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You can turn fear into an advantage.
 
My wife took a flight to Europe via Emirates on September 11, 2002... exactly one year to the day after the WTC terrorist attack. The plane was pretty much empty because of irrational hysteria that there was a higher risk that the Muslims would blow up one of their own aeroplanes. Terrific flight, excellent service, nothing more safer and she had a whole row of seats to lie down and sleep on.

A few days after the WHO announces COVID-19 is a pandemic, I will be buying stocks, after all the sheep think the end is nigh. Within three years, I will stand to make handsome profit far exceeding crappy bank interest rates... if I survive that is ::).

(Did you hear about the IRA terrorist who tried to blow up a bus? He burnt his lips on the exhaust pipe.)

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