Coronavirus - Overall
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@Kruse said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Chatting with some random at Okoroire Pub yesterday evening, can't remember why, but one asked if I'd been in China recently... my response of “actually, yes”... went down a treat.
Was that the guy you coughed on?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@jegga said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@voodoo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'm in Palmy with the fam to visit my old lady. Wife flew in to meet us here from Singapore. She felt a bit sick today like a cold coming on, so just went over to the Dr across the road.
They got shitty with her and have stuck her in a mask and isolated her because she came from Sing. 😨You went on holiday and got the mrs put in quarantine? Well played, time to catch up with your mates for an epic session.
She's out already.
And nobody holidays in Palmy
You didn't tell the doctor she's an ESOL teacher in Wuhan and loves a good bat and pangolin mixed grill? Schoolboy error, I take back my earlier praise.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Kruse said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Chatting with some random at Okoroire Pub yesterday evening, can't remember why, but one asked if I'd been in China recently... my response of “actually, yes”... went down a treat.
Was that the guy you coughed on?
It was more of a bloody vom-spit-cough.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
A friend has been stuck at his in-laws' home in Fujian on lock down for four weeks.
That's how they plan to fix things
Good strategy, those murders won’t be counted toward the disease.
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600 cases now in Korea and borders with Iran being closed as they've likely got 100's of cases, hard to see this not becoming a full pandemic in the next few weeks.
Lets see if the boss will let me work from home going forward, I feel lucky not having contracted the bubonic plague from our mens toilets as it is, coronavirus might be a bridge too far.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
600 cases now in Korea and borders with Iran being closed as they've likely got 100's of cases, hard to see this not becoming a full pandemic in the next few weeks.
Stop watching zombie movies. More people would've contracted the flu.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
600 cases now in Korea and borders with Iran being closed as they've likely got 100's of cases, hard to see this not becoming a full pandemic in the next few weeks.
Stop watching zombie movies. More people would've contracted the flu.
Of course they would, and now you have this issue on top of that with all the extra quarantines, fever testing, disinfecting, public transport coughing paranoia, panic buying etc.
If you can work from home and maybe avoid some of the madness why the hell not?
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
600 cases now in Korea and borders with Iran being closed as they've likely got 100's of cases, hard to see this not becoming a full pandemic in the next few weeks.
Stop watching zombie movies. More people would've contracted the flu.
Of course they would, and now you have this issue on top of that with all the extra quarantines, fever testing, disinfecting, public transport coughing paranoia, panic buying etc.
If you can work from home and maybe avoid some of the madness why the hell not?
Don't you live in Australia?
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@antipodean Correct
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I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
I guess that should be answered in the next few weeks. Indonesia apparently don't have any cases which some are saying is suspect, hopefully it just doesn't like warmer climates..
Swine Flu jumped over to warmer countries, I remember folk at work being signed off with it in the UK but I don't remember any of the border closures or mass quarantining we are seeing here, not sure what that says really. Tough striking the balance between public safety, avoiding panic and not impacting the economy. Some governments can be better trusted than others.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
Countries in summer - I think sunlight kills it quickly, and in summer people are outside more. Will be interesting; ther's a lot of noise about something that doesn't seem that different to flu in mortality rates.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
Countries in summer - I think sunlight kills it quickly, and in summer people are outside more. Will be interesting; ther's a lot of noise about something that doesn't seem that different to flu in mortality rates.
Feels like media traffic has eased of late. Hopefully a good sign
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
Countries in summer - I think sunlight kills it quickly, and in summer people are outside more. Will be interesting; ther's a lot of noise about something that doesn't seem that different to flu in mortality rates.
The hysteria is more contagious.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
Countries in summer - I think sunlight kills it quickly, and in summer people are outside more. Will be interesting; ther's a lot of noise about something that doesn't seem that different to flu in mortality rates.
The hysteria is more contagious.
Main stream media is a willing vector
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'd love to see infection case figures based on winter countries vs hotter countries. There have been cases in Singapore and the surroundings but are they directly associated with travellers from China or spontaneous cases? Meanwhile in NZ cabinet will apparently review travel restrictions....
Countries in summer - I think sunlight kills it quickly, and in summer people are outside more. Will be interesting; ther's a lot of noise about something that doesn't seem that different to flu in mortality rates.
I think the bigger issue isn't so much mortality rates but rather how many cases are requiring of specialist hospital treatment, 1 in 5 seems to be an early indicator of this which would put a big strain on medical facilities.. but that might be missing folk who get extremely mild symptoms and not be tested. Infectiousness also seems to be higher than the flu and there seems to be evidence of a very long incubation period.
Thing is unlike the flu this is very new and there are way too many unknowns and dodgy data to confidently predict which way it will go. Government responses seems pretty unprecedented..but maybe that's just learning from previous pandemics.