Coronavirus - Overall
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Has it infected the fern yet?
On a serious note I'm getting pissed off with the lack of stuff on shelves. I already stock pile enough tinned crap that never gets eaten so I'm good for a while, but toilet rolls, seriously? The most contagious thing about all of this is the panic buying, I didn't want to buy more than two packs in one shop so I went to a different shop and bought another there. And they were big packs!
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
After some heavy in depth analysis, listening the experts, scientists and facebook.. I have decided
I have no fucking idea what to think. Like none at all. I swing between just saying fuck it, lets just lift all bans and let it play out and get back to normal faster as the disease doesnt seem that bad, to lets lock everyone down it s gonna be a disaster.
I have now settled on... having no idea what to think about it. I have found myself agreeing with posts that contradict each other....
I do know I hate the media though.
And anyone who hoardes toilet paper should be stripped of the right to vote or drive a car.
I'm not hoarding loo roll but some people definitely are...
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@Tim said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
South Korea is saying the infection rate may have peaked there. To date the death rate has been ~ 1 in 1 million.
It looks like they took it serious pretty early on with mass testing and consequently the growth rate is dropping. Other countries have been significantly more stingy with tests or perhaps adopted the 'head in the sand' mentality...if we don't test for it then our infection rate will be low. It does suggest it is controllable with the right amount of resources. Although looking at Iran and Italy's mortality rate you would think their cases are a tip of the iceberg..or a more deadly strain.
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Australia set to announce a $2bn response package today. Public campaigns, more clinics, more tests.
In one sense Italy, Iran and South Korea have really taken one for the team. Their rapid outbreaks have scared the bejesus out of many (not all) other nations, who will now be far better prepared than they were.
It doesn't mean it won't sweep through Australia, but at the very least we should know what to expect and how to best manage it.
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@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
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@taniwharugby One of the world's oldest populations, maybe? Hard to know from where I'm sitting.
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@barbarian yeah you wonder what the demographic is like to see if it gives insight, I am sure the right people have knowledge of such things.
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Italy has the 2nd oldest average age after japan
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
Check the video I posted above from 02:45 - 04:00, he goes over a message from a hospital in Milan. Sounds like their health system is struggling, as a result the death rate is going up.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Interesting article on how South Korea has been turning this this around from what looked like an impossible position.
Sounds like they have done a great job, and the population have done their part
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@barbarian you gotta wonder why Italy has been hit as hard as they have, something like a hundred new deaths overnight apparently?
Scientific American article also notes that South Korea's low mortality rate may be a result of the sheer number of tests they have done, identifying many more mild cases, making the percentage lower at 0.6%.
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@booboo said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
entific American article also notes that South Korea's low mortality rate may be a result of the sheer number of tests they have done, identifying many more mild cases, making the percentage lower at 0.6%.
all makes perfect sense...I was not aware Italy had such an 'old' population.
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The other thing about Italy is that there isn't a culture of retirement homes like in NZ, Aust and the USA. So the older people who are dying will be living at home (mainly apartments), often with their extended family. It could have been a lot worse, as in the outbreak in Washington State, if they were concentrated in the same facilities.
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Yeah my wife does some work at one of the big retirement villages and she said they are locking the gates and requiring visitors/workers to come to reception and taking temperature readings and something else before deciding if they can come in or not...
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oooooh, the WHO has called it a pandemic, with cases reaching 100,000 world wide
100,000!!! oooooohhhh
fuck off WHO, you anachronistic bureaucratic shitstains
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