Wuhan Flu - actions speak louder than words

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Kamikuza said..
Yeah nah. It's also not a terribly high transmission rate (R0) -- as far as we know -- so the low numbers of infected are unsurprising.
Sure, if you enable vectors of transmission, it'll be transmitted more easily. Quarantining is a good thing.
Same as flu though. www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm I think the issue with coronavirus is they don't know how long it lurks around for? Which is why more restrictive quarantining is a good thing.

Are you sure about that? I thought it was 2.8 versus 3.0 with SARS, and again, I will harp on about the fact that it is transmissable before the symptoms are showing, whereas SARS was only transmissable after the symptoms were showing. I.e. you could scan people for SARS and then isolate them to prevent transmission. With Covid19, its too late!

Please don't now turn around and try and tell us the mortality rate of Ebola was not that high... The reason that disease is "safe" for most of us is that it burns itself out quickly by killing the hosts quickly.

If you think the risk of this disease is no worse than the regular flu, we would not have even heard about it by now and it would be a regular variant of the flu. Instead, it had to be contained by a country that has the ability to unilaterally isolate its citizens and force them into isolation and still many of them have died. The we have the example of Italy which hasn't treated it like the threat it is, and it has gotten away on them.

Australia is no better. We have a lot of older people. We have hospitals built to cater or a small number of sick people. Letting people think that its 'just the flu' is very dangerous.

I think those saying " Its only a flu bug",
should be put onto a crowded cruise ship with their parents, kids and grand parents and spend 30 days on it visiting a different country each day, with a 5 days stop over in china then Italy.
Hey, its only a bit of a cold. Its nothing but media hype

What if covid19 is just man flu?

And women are now realising how bad we have have had it!

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kiterboy said..

kiterboy said..

2stubborn2quit said..
PS....
The Dunny paper is also disappearing in WA supermarkets, still we have not had one reported case.
Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic
Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic
Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic
Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic. Panic

It's actually three. Derrr, stay awake.
And that's only the 'official numbers'.
Next week it'll be 15.
Check in and let us know, if you're awake.

Edit: and that's not incuding the miner at Christmas Creek and the undefined numbers at Sino Iron Ore.

Well I was 1 off...14 'official' cases in WA now...

Of course there's many more that the 'official' numbers would have you believe.

Any takers for guessing next week's tally?

25?

It is a bit random though. If the authorities are able to quickly identify people at risk, then it can keep the increase lower. If they can't, then thousands can get it in a matter of a week.

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Gazuki said..
Sc-mo = Muppet++++++

Places ban on public events and then does press release saying hes going to the footy.

Talks about leading by example!!

I think there's an international competition to see which country can put forward the worst political leader.

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japie said..

Gazuki said..
Sc-mo = Muppet++++++

Places ban on public events and then does press release saying hes going to the footy.

Talks about leading by example!!

I think there's an international competition to see which country can put forward the worst political leader.

Gotta say, it's a pretty even comp so far, neck and neck!

My money is on Xi Jinping though.

^ screw self isolation send the Cabinet to Christmas Island.

Has Dutton got Coronavirus early in an attempt to become immune so that he can be leader when the others start falling?

Sounds like a conspiracy to me...

Just a thought.......I suspect if the pandemic gets out of control, the USA is going to realise how farked it's medical system is, how farked it's hospital system is and how under-resourced the nation actually is.

I understand for example, Italy has more hospital beds than the US?......fark.

I was just reading that one of the WA confirmed coronavirus patients, was on a flight from Sydney to Perth.... Great! It means that there are potentially heaps of people that are running around with it. and after more than 4 hours on a plane, its probably likely that someone got it.

I might have to fly from Perth to Adelaide, then to Canberra, and drive to Sydney to avoid this thing.