Thailand confirms first human-to-human coronavirus transmission, total number of cases now at 19

[FarFlungFalang]

14 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

But real men don't need masks, wasn't that the narrative a day or so ago?

They don't eat quiche either and rightly so! 

[SiSePuede419]

According to the NYT, you should stay approximately 2 meters away from all people and don't touch any hard surfaces. ????

 

How far viruses travel

Coronaviruses like the Wuhan virus can travel only about six feet from the infected person. It’s unknown how long they live on surfaces.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html

 

 

Edited February 1, 2020 by SiSePuede419

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control.

I wonder how many other people the "carrier" managed to infect while enjoying themselves on holiday?

[SiSePuede419]

5 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

They don't eat quiche either and rightly so! 

Because eggs have cholesterol and elevated cholesterol levels supposedly can kill you?

[DrTuner]

5 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

According to the NYT, you should stay approximately 2 meters away from all people.

I give a berth of about 2-3km to the nearest Chinese. Have for years. Got that covered.

[DrTuner]

2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder how many other people the "carrier" managed to infect while enjoying themselves on holiday?

That's the problem with the chest banging SAS forces that go around licking tables at Chinese buffets. While their superior immune system can easily fight off HIV, Ebola and Wuhan virus at the same time, they will go infect everybody on the next bar stool and before you know it, the elderly mamasan kicks the bucket. 

[FarFlungFalang]

One month in 258 deaths attributed to 2019 coronavirus to approx 33,000 from regular flu still a lot of catching up to do but very little concern shown by the multitudes about the regular flu which may mutate at anytime and cause a mass extinction of the human race.Now where's my ELEPHANT gun?

[Is this real]

Where were these taxi drivers?

Where are these cases being found?

[FarFlungFalang]

3 minutes ago, Is this real said:

Where were these taxi drivers?

Where are these cases being found?

There was only one and he was in his taxi!

The case was found in a hospital.

Edited February 1, 2020 by FarFlungFalang

[aussienam]

I think the 'horse' has already 'bolted' and the Corona virus is likely festering now in hundreds of people in Thailand and across the world.  New epicenters of the virus will be springing up everywhere.  Think where it started in Wuhan how long before it was identified.  Weeks.  And now over 10,000 infected.  And China has shut down cities and airports.  Other countries make have carriers who are not Chinese citizens who are spreading this about. 

This is not a regular influenza virus.  Corona has a higher per capita percentage death rate and needs a much more labour intense treatment regime requiring hospitalisation for many.  

A vaccination is the only thing that will slow this down now.  

[emptypockets]

16 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

How many of you are familiar with the Nursery Rhyme 'Ring A Ring O Roses' ? Look it up ???? 

 

I wonder if there will be a Nursery Rhyme for this little Corona cutie 

 

Round and round the world we go,

Spreading germs and death galore,

 

Feel free to add to it...............................

 

 

 

Round and round the world we go,

Spreading germs and death galore,

The panic and the nonsense said

by posters,

is becoming quite a bore.

 

Glad to help.

[rabas]

7 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Round and round the world we go,

Spreading germs and death galore,

The panic and the nonsense said

by posters,

is becoming quite a bore.

 

Glad to help.

Sounds like a jingle from 1917.

[FarFlungFalang]

8 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Round and round the world we go,

Spreading germs and death galore,

The panic and the nonsense said

by posters,

is becoming quite a bore.

 

Glad to help.

Very good!

[emptypockets]

5 minutes ago, rabas said:

Sounds like a jingle from 1917.

I wasn't around then. I'll take your word for it. You have a remarkable memory for someone that advanced in years.

[unamazedloso]

17 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

How many of you are familiar with the Nursery Rhyme 'Ring A Ring O Roses' ? Look it up ???? 

 

I wonder if there will be a Nursery Rhyme for this little Corona cutie 

 

Round and round the world we go,

Spreading germs and death galore,

 

Feel free to add to it...............................

 

 

 

*make sure you stop them visas
*coronas worse than measles
*a visa, a visa, we all fall down.

[Burma Bill]

Quote:- 

 

PM not happy with proposed freeze of VOA for Chinese tourists

Maybe this first case of human to human contact will change his mind!!

[RotBenz8888]

1 hour ago, canuckamuck said:

Same rating against virus as n95

 

Translation: however, does not stop coronas?

Edited February 1, 2020 by RotBenz8888

[rabas]

23 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

I wasn't around then. I'll take your word for it. You have a remarkable memory for someone that advanced in years.

I do!  But it comes from history:

 

Spanish flu ignored as ‘minor infection’ two years before the great outbreak of 1918

 

Edited February 1, 2020 by rabas

[albertik]

Common influenza deaths in USA for 2019 topped 57000.

[FarFlungFalang]

46 minutes ago, aussienam said:

A vaccination is the only thing that will slow this down now. 

MERS and SARS,both members of the coronavirus family both slowed down without a vaccine and there are still looking for a vaccine for those two,so I wouldn't be holding my breath on this one. 

Edited February 1, 2020 by FarFlungFalang

[DrTuner]

Just now, albertik said:

Common influenza deaths in USA for 2019 topped 57000.

After we surpass that figure I guess you'll have to revert to plague to make the same argument.

[lovesthespicy]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

One month in 258 deaths attributed to 2019 coronavirus to approx 33,000 from regular flu still a lot of catching up to do but very little concern shown by the multitudes about the regular flu which may mutate at anytime and cause a mass extinction of the human race.Now where's my ELEPHANT gun?

 

The virus could be spread all through Thailand  killing people at a +2% clip yet some people on the internet will still be screaming "The regular flu kills 850k people a year though!!!!!". 

 

Just a heads up theirs this thing called a flu shot that gets redone every year to be up to date for the new strain of the flu. Its 50-60% effective at stopping the Flu completely. In the people it doesnt prevent the flu it lessens the affects. The flu kills under 0.01% so yeah its not very deathly. 

 

I'm going to start copying and pasting this whenever I see some guy say "but the flu the flu".

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/flu/in-depth/flu-shots/art-20048000

Edited February 1, 2020 by lovesthespicy

[Tayaout]

4 minutes ago, albertik said:

Common influenza deaths in USA for 2019 topped 57000.

And 143 in China for 2019. Think about that! 

[shackleton]

Well I think most of us here on this site were expecting the worse

I think I remember reading the virus symptoms  do not show up for 2 weeks

So interesting times coming up 

[Tayaout]

1 minute ago, shackleton said:

Well I think most of us here on this site were expecting the worse

I think I remember reading the virus symptoms  do not show up for 2 weeks

So interesting times coming up 

1 to 14 days and average 5-6 days. 

[Kinnock]

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

According to the NYT, you should stay approximately 2 meters away from all people and don't touch any hard surfaces. ????

 

How far viruses travel

Coronaviruses like the Wuhan virus can travel only about six feet from the infected person. It’s unknown how long they live on surfaces.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain

 

I hope the massage girl has long arms.  

[FarFlungFalang]

7 minutes ago, lovesthespicy said:

 

The virus could be spread all through Thailand  killing people at a +2% clip yet some people on the internet will still be screaming "The regular flu kills 850k people a year though!!!!!". 

 

Just a heads up theirs this thing called a flu shot that gets redone every year to be up to date for the new strain of the flu. Its 50-60% effective at stopping the Flu completely. In the people it doesnt prevent the flu it lessens the affects. The flu kills under 0.01% so yeah its not very deathly. 

 

I'm going to start copying and pasting this whenever I see some guy say "but the flu the flu".

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/flu/in-depth/flu-shots/art-20048000

Yes fair call although I'm not really screaming as you put it.I found this info which have some different numbers to your source.

The respective mortality rates for SARS and MERS patients was 9.5 and 34.5 percent, far higher that for the new coronavirus, which French health minister Agnes Buzyn put at "less than five percent".

That rate is likely to decline, experts say, as the ratio of deaths to reported cases continues to widen.

The coronavirus "is less deadly than SARS or MERS, but it is more contagious," Buzyn said in a press conference Tuesday.

The seasonal flu, by comparison, kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the United States, the mortality rate among people infected with influenza is about 0.13 percent, the Centers for Disease Control has calculated.

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-scientists-do-and-don-t-know-about-wuhan-coronavirus-so-far

 

[1RDN]

18 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

 

Something else to think about now.

US companies are banning anyone coming from China or Thailand, for coming to their locations.

I have been advised to get out of Thailand asap.

[NeoDinosaw]

13 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Bangkok

That narrows it down a lot ????

[Kinnock]

9 minutes ago, lovesthespicy said:

 

The virus could be spread all through Thailand  killing people at a +2% clip yet some people on the internet will still be screaming "The regular flu kills 850k people a year though!!!!!". 

 

Just a heads up theirs this thing called a flu shot that gets redone every year to be up to date for the new strain of the flu. Its 50-60% effective at stopping the Flu completely. In the people it doesnt prevent the flu it lessens the affects. The flu kills under 0.01% so yeah its not very deathly. 

 

I'm going to start copying and pasting this whenever I see some guy say "but the flu the flu".

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/flu/in-depth/flu-shots/art-20048000

Flu cases and deaths are not tracked or reported in many countries, so the data is not comparable to a new virus that is being monitored world wide.  But WHO estimate is over 500,000 deaths per year from flu.  

 

If you understand the data, you'll see that flu, SARS and MERS are more serious illnesses.

 

Also - it's natural for the more serious and deadly illnesses to spread less easily, as the hosts are sick or dead.  Seen any Ebola cases in Thailand recently?

 

The new coronavirus will spread widely precisely because it's not so serious - many people contracting the new virus don't even know they have it.

 

Man up, it's just a bad cold.