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@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Would be great if people stopped eating things like bats though!
Absolutely.
There is supposed to be a Cantonese saying "if something's back is facing the sky, it is for people to eat". Not sure whether it is true or not, or whether bats fit that category.SARS was civet cats. It was a bit scary, mainly because when you arrived at the airport, they checked your temperature, if it was high you could end up in a SARS ward - where you would catch SARS. Then they would give you Tamiflu, which won't help with SARS but will give you kidney failure.
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@Snowy said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Would be great if people stopped eating things like bats though!
Absolutely.
There is supposed to be a Cantonese saying "if something's back is facing the sky, it is for people to eat". Not sure whether it is true or not, or whether bats fit that category.SARS was civet cats. It was a bit scary, mainly because when you arrived at the airport, they checked your temperature, if it was high you could end up in a SARS ward - where you would catch SARS. Then they would give you Tamiflu, which won't help with SARS but will give you kidney failure.
I bought a can of this at the time because people didn't believe me when I said it was for sale, surprisingly it wasn't exactly flying off the shelves.
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@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Big disinfection campaigns in China, and everyone firmly encouraged to wear masks in public.
Government has responded pretty quickly to this, and the message is prevalent in wealthy cities at least. Chinese healthcare system is not at the level of advanced nations, and some regions are under-administrated, but they can respond quickly and forcefully if motivated.
This doesn't look to me to be particularly worrisome. I read something recently about it having the same glycoprotein binding domains as SARS, which made that infection difficult to transfer. I would need to double check that, and review the recent literature, to say anything with confidence though.
Would be great if people stopped eating things like bats though!
The Chinese Government is building a new hospital just to deal with this issue. It'll be completed on Feb 3.
Fuck they get shit done when they want to.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Big disinfection campaigns in China, and everyone firmly encouraged to wear masks in public.
Government has responded pretty quickly to this, and the message is prevalent in wealthy cities at least. Chinese healthcare system is not at the level of advanced nations, and some regions are under-administrated, but they can respond quickly and forcefully if motivated.
This doesn't look to me to be particularly worrisome. I read something recently about it having the same glycoprotein binding domains as SARS, which made that infection difficult to transfer. I would need to double check that, and review the recent literature, to say anything with confidence though.
Would be great if people stopped eating things like bats though!
The Chinese Government is building a new hospital just to deal with this issue. It'll be completed on Feb 3.
Fuck they get shit done when they want to.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
The Chinese Government is building a new hospital just to deal with this issue. It'll be completed on Feb 3.
Fuck they get shit done when they want to.
This.
Visiting some of the sights/touristy-shit in China, it's not so much just the thing itself which is awesome, but thinking... “some fluffybunny thought this up, AND had the will/power/mandate/manpower to actually DO it. WTF?”
Great Wall & Terracotta Warriors especially, but more recently Three Gorges Dam. -
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Snowy If it's any consolation, I'm developing the first real high throughput screening assay for viral protease and neuraminidase inhibitors (e.g. tamiflu). See you in 15 years with a product. (less than 10% chance)
to quote Dave Warner
SPEAK ENGLISH
seriously, what does that mean for a layman?
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Snowy If it's any consolation, I'm developing the first real high throughput screening assay for viral protease and neuraminidase inhibitors (e.g. tamiflu). See you in 15 years with a product. (less than 10% chance)
to quote Dave Warner
SPEAK ENGLISH
seriously, what does that mean for a layman?
I believe that @Tim is working on an attempt to produce a mass produced solution for the avoidance of certain types of viruses.
How did I do? Both of you.
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Got two mates in China currently. One I think is in Zhenjiang, she reckons the Chinese government are massively underplaying it..while the western media is massively overplaying it. The other is in Shenzhen where there have been some cases, haven't heard back from him yet, he's picked a hell of a time to introduce his Australian bride to his family.
Flying to NZ tomorrow. Should be a paranoia filled flight if we have someone coughing through it.
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Next time anyone wonders why science research should be better funded think of this
Amazing
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Flying to NZ tomorrow. Should be a paranoia filled flight if we have someone coughing through it.
I read on BBC and NYT sites today that carriers are passing on the virus with zero symptoms. People could have it and have no idea, certainly for several days at least.
And if anybody can explain this twitter thread to me, I’d appreciate it...
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A small bit of a levity with a timely Terry Jones pivot. (R.I.P.)
We love the Yangtse, Yangtse-Kiang,
Flowing from Yushu down to Ching-Kiang,
Passing through Chung King, Wuhan and Hoo-Kow
Three thousand miles, but it gets there somehow.
Oh! Szechuan's the province and Shanghai is the port,
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@Salacious-Crumb Ignore stuff like that, and read my posts above instead.
This is a good thread on that tweet:
The authors of that paper emphasize the high degree of uncertainty and have already downgraded their estimate to an R0 of 2.5