Uh... I don't think there is much we can do to prevent the spread entirely and snuff the virus out per se. But I am hoping this is an event that will improve global hygiene significantly.

Making it a social norm to wear masks during flu season will save a **** ton of lives.
Chinese authorities finally cleaning up their food safety practices (just go on YouTube, it won't take long for you to find freshly slaughtered pigs just sitting on a table at room temperature, sometimes with flies buzzing around) will significantly lower the probabiliy we get another animal to human transmission out of China annually.
Getting a bigger sense of urgency to finally develop anti-viral meds for flu/corona viruses will really help us fight the next pandemic.

Sooner or later we'll get a bastard of a virus that has a long incubation period but with the deadliness of Avian flu or ebola. Thankfully Covid-19 isn't it. Covid-19 exposing weaknesses in our disease response system may actually end up saving a ton of lives.

So the Chinese government "convinced" The Lancet to retract an article/plea for help written by some nurses in Wuhan. It contradicts the PRC's official stance that everything in Wuhan is getting better. The article is, um, concerning.

If we can just slow the spread enough where the health care systems don't get overloaded and everyone can get treatment that needs it, that is a win. And really the realistic goal of this thing in my eyes.

But it helps if everyone is bought in and cares about it.

And +1 to improving social norms around personal hygiene and other health measures.

Alright.

Wow

Too bad there is not some way people can test themselves for the virus to prevent the spreading.

Just another case of lol leadership. I can't believe anybody with a conscience buys into the system anymore.

No, but it's over-reacting to follow all news events about driving obsessively, cancel all events that require driving, and get yourself a genuine shyster-made homeopathic car-repellent crystal.

Yeah, I've never said that Cali won't get to 500k cases. I have no idea why you think that I said no one will catch this thing. But let's say 500K in Cali catch it, and lets give the (imo pessimistic) 2% death rate. That's 1K deaths. Sucks, I agree, but it's still less than 1/3 of the annual Cali motor vehicle fatalities.

You mean 10k.

10k and we're not sure they won't come back as zombies yet.

Oops. Math is hard.

Ok so you just don't care no matter what occurs because there are people that die in auto accidents. Well I guess I can't really argue with that. So I guess we just part ways here. :handshake:

is this helping anyone?

Yes, talking about various things like this helps people rationally determine how to deploy their resources.

Lol I'm trying to stop responding to you and just let it be, but you keep following me around like a lost puppy. Are you ok buddy?

hmm I think I posted first, so technically you are following me around, can you just stop being a huge ******* in the coronavirus threads?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/a-do...-confirms.html

first US death from coronavirus

was a woman in her late 50s

Medically high risk woman in her 50's.

California has 40 million people. 500k would be 1 in 80 people. I think it'll be much more widespread than that (i know you didn't choose 500k).

Looking at the cruise ship for an example:

19% of the passengers are infected, 6 deaths so far, 0.8% fatality rate.

If we pull those numbers straight over to California for fun we get 7.6 million infected and 61,000 dead.

“You are more likely to die of influenza today”

Sure, you are more likely to catch influenza today. But the deaths in the US from corona have a good chance to be multiple times that from flu over the next 3 months.

If 20% of the US gets it that’s 70M and if it kills even just 1% that’s 700,000 deaths.


**** Dr Drew and his “this is fake news” bullshit

stupid question pls answer


if you are "healthy" and you contact the virus, do you have to go to the hospital or docter or can you just chill at home with meds and in a few days or a week it goes away? kinda like a nomral cold or flu