See, this is what people are not comprehending. They just go "lawl, less deaths then the flu". Its like they don't realize that its Still spreading and, unlike the flu, we have no way to stop it. Not to mention the Coronavirus is already at 4% mortality rate, so it actually beats the flu now.
They just don't understand that as the cases rise, the ability to treat it drops drastically. Its not even a case of "well, give them less medicine". Its a case of, there wont be Any to give them to begin with.
Gamestop will just be replaced by something else. Maybe even a place that doesn't force it's employees to work during a pandemic.
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A unknown number of people infected and wandering around? Yeah, that's not relevant at all...
They don't provide references, but it seems to be based on a Chinese study - and that statement misrepresents the result of that study; https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance...waa036/5775463
After looking at 103 samples they could classify them in two groups, L (70%) and S (30%), where S is the older, but L was first spreading more in Wuhan and now less. They think that might be because L was more "aggressive" and reproducing more, and thus was detected more and therefore spread less(!) since it was noticed, while S flew under the rader; but further studies are needed - and WHO hasn't confirmed it.
And anyway it doesn't seem that the difference impacts the virus-surface, so it seems unlikely to influence vaccine and possible re-infections.
The L-variant has then split into 3 or more large sub-variants: https://nextstrain.org/ncov?c=gt-ORF8_84
It could also just be chance and that one person with the L-variant travelled to Italy and then that spread to most of Europe (whereas the US got both variants).
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Again, Italy's numbers for the day:
Cases +3526, up to 31506 (+13%)
Deaths +345, up to 2503 (+16%)
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Spain and Germany are on their way to pass Iran soon. France has slowed down compared to Germany.
This is leaked footage from an ICU in Milan that I'm surprised hasn't gone viral yet. (Just a warning, this is quite disturbing to watch).
Footage like this needs to be played on major news channels around the world so people start taking this seriously.
Ontario, Canada has just declared a state of emergency, closing most public spaces until March 30th. As much as this virus is deadly, i really feel like the real effects we'll feel from this are going to be in the god awful economic impacts. I suspect most businesses really aren't prepared to be closed 2 weeks, let alone months or a year.
People who have the virus, regardless of whether they know it or not, can spread it. Why would that not be relevant?
The fact that you don't know who they are, where they are or anything else about them is exactly what MAKES it relevant. That's why the social distancing and quarantining precautions and warnings are being put in place.
Obviously there are things that can be done about it, look at what is happening all over the world. Whether lockdowns are effective seems to vary.
Ironically, Italy is being punished for their benevolent practice of letting the elderly live at home and not in retirement homes like in the US or Western Europe which is a cruel and miserable end to a person's life. That said, in cases like this the mortality rate will probably be lower in the latter countries where the elderly are isolated in their own communities and not in the same household with asymptomatic young people who unknowingly bring it home. On the flip side though, Japan also has a large elderly population who live at home and their death rate is not as high as Italy's.