Merkel just admited that they are estimating that 70-80 % of germans will catch the virus.
if germans admit they are unable to contain it lets be real no country can viably contain it.
Merkel just admited that they are estimating that 70-80 % of germans will catch the virus.
if germans admit they are unable to contain it lets be real no country can viably contain it.
If anything germany is a very bad example of how to handle this. I'm sure pretty much any country can and will do better. Reacting too slow and soft.. not banning mass events / travel from italy / china. Letting carnival events happen when it already had hit italy was just a joke.
4-5k dead so far world wide is still a very low number when you realise how many people there are, some 400 infected here but no deaths so far just a matter of time though. Also mostly elderly and weak that dies.
Wonder how the planet would handle a new black death scenario if it's that hard to stop this one.
Would probably be good for the planet but humanity would be fucked seeing how many people we are compared to back then.
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Do you hear the voices too?
Lol bullshit, if I am ever proven wrong I admit being wrong because unlike a lot of people here I man up to my mistakes. If I stop repying to a thread it's because I already made my point and I am not going to argue in circles. That's some flat earther logic right there "oh look he stopped replying to me guess he finally realizes I am right the earth is flat"
And voila, a few newspaper blaming Noord-Brabant .. comments are all discrimating and rascistic against the ''brabo's''. Great. People losing there mind.
A coronavirus infecting dogs, of course.
COVID-19 is caused by one specific new coronavirus, in humans other coronaviruses cause SARS and some cases of the common cold (but most cases of the common cold are caused by other viruses). Other coronaviruses also exist in animals (bats, alpacas, dogs, birds) etc. Generally they don't spread between animals, and all coronaviruses have some similarities - but also large differences (so it's not strange that mild cases of Covid-19 sound similar to the common cold; the difference is that some cases are not that mild). Oh, and some canine coronaviruses infect puppies more than adult dogs.
Thats why so many deaths started rolling from Italy. The hospitals couldn't properly handle all the infected people once it went over a certain number.
If you could have an infinite number of hospital beds with an infinite number of assisted ventilation machines plus an infinite number or nurses there would hardly be any deaths but we don't live in that fantasy scenario. The more will get infected the bigger the general clusterfuck. Death rate will skyrocket just because there won't be even basic medical care available.
The Swedish state just removed the... not sure how to really translate it into English, but if you are sick you won't get paid at all for the first day (following days you get 80%, though), which, naturally, has lead to many people feeling like they can't afford to get sick.
Good move, now people may stay home instead of feeling forced in having to go to work.
This will last for 1½ month.
121 new cases for a total of 503 in the Netherlands. 5th death. Note: amount of new cases might be higher, not everyone is getting tested, mostly due to: ''already in quarantine, cba testing those'' ... How can a country fail so hard?
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/seattle-lab-u...053628224.htmlState health officials joined Chu in asking the CDC and Food and Drug Administration to waive privacy rules and allow clinical tests in a research lab, citing the threat of significant loss of life. The CDC and FDA said no. "We felt like we were sitting, waiting for the pandemic to emerge," Chu told the Times. "We could help. We couldn't do anything."
They held off for a couple of weeks, but on Feb. 25, Chu and her colleagues "began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval," the Times reports. They found a positive case pretty quickly, and after discussing the ethics, they told state health officials, who confirmed the next day that a teenager who hadn't traveled abroad had COVID-19 — and the virus had likely been spreading undetected throughout the Seattle area for weeks. Later that day, the CDC and FDA told Chu and her colleagues to stop testing, then partially relented, and the lab found several more cases. On Monday night, they were ordered to stop testing again.
Bureaucracy, China doesn't have a monopoly on it. :P
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
Sigh. It isn't a matter of 4.4k people dead...it's that 4.4k people died out of 122k infections.
The reason this is being treated so seriously is that this is about 2.5 times more infectious than the flu and more than 10 times deadlier.
So, in the US, we typically see 10 million to 40 million people infected with the flu, and usually see 15k to 60k people die and 250k to 1m people hospitalized. If COVID-19 reaches that many people, we'll see 350k to 1.4m people dead and 1.5m to 6m people hospitalized...and the US doesn't even have 1m hospital beds.
Can't say I know anyone worrying about this to much and life goes on as usual. Guess old people should be more worried and stay away from people to be more safe.
Only thing that sucks is that there is a chance they cancel hockey events here and perhaps even VM.
But sure it's pretty bad in some places.
Do you hear the voices too?