COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

chineebai

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but they're connecting this whole thing to people eating bats and now i guess snakes(?). these are just the facts man, how you "feel" about them is not our issue

we are allowed to discuss the facts of this situation :manny:
I agree, it's all up for discussion. How I feel is how I feel so not sure how that's related to anyone else's issue
 

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The whole reason u not supposed to eat wild animals like bats and koala bears is because they carry diseases those animals are immune to, but we arent. Its a reason these deadly outbreaks always happen in places where the locals eat anything. Some animals arent designed for human consumption
 

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  • Scientists at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security made the eerie prediction
  • Modeled hypothetical coronavirus outbreak on computer in research in October
  • Pretend disease took just 18 months to wipe out 65million people around world
Leading US health experts predicted a coronavirus could kill tens of millions of people in a chilling warning three months before the deadly outbreak in China.

Scientists at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security modeled a hypothetical pandemic on a computer as part of research last October.

The simulation predicted 65million people from every corner of the world would be wiped out in just 18 months.

Business Insider.

'We don't yet know how contagious it is. We know that it is being spread person to person, but we don't know to what extent.

'An initial first impression is that this is significantly milder than SARS. So that's reassuring. On the other hand, it may be more transmissible than SARS, at least in the community setting.'

Coronaviruses are infections of the respiratory tract that can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold.

One was also responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China, which affected 8,000 people and killed 774 in the early 2000s.

Dr Toner's computer simulation suggested that after six months, nearly every country in the world would have cases of coronavirus.

Within 18 months, 65million people could die. The outbreak in Wuhan isn't considered a pandemic, but the virus has been reported in 10 different nations.

The US, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Nepal have all confirmed cases.

Dr Toner's simulation imagined a fictional virus called CAPS - a pandemic that originated in Brazil's pig farms in the hypothetical scenario.

The virus in Toner's simulation would be resistant to any modern vaccine. It would be deadlier than SARS, but about as easy to catch as the flu.

His computer modelled outbreak started small, with farmers coming down with fevers or pneumonia-like symptoms.

It then spread to crowded and poverty-riddled communities in South America.

Flights were grounded and travel bookings were slashed in half. After six months, the virus had spread around the globe and a year later it had killed 65 million people.


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This outbreak got me reading about the Spanish flu all over again. The wiki included this:

" This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed more people than the Black Death.[43] This flu killed more people in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS killed in 24 years, and more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.[44] However, the Black Death killed a much higher percentage of the world's then smaller population. "

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The only good thing about the new virus is that it seems to be mostly killing older people/ people with compromised or otherwise weak immune systems.

The Spanish flu was killing young adults.
 
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