Coronavirus Thread

[Alias]

EDIT:
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Coronavirus cases rise to more than 800 worldwide as China confirms death toll has risen to 25

The fast-spreading infection prompted local authorities to quarantine several major cities and cancel Lunar New Year's events in Beijing.

www.cnbc.com

From what I've read if you live in the USA there is no reason to panic even with that one case in Seattle as of this posting. As for China they say wait and see till after Chinese New Year festivities due to the two week incubation period of the virus. Though some people in China and abroad have begun to cancel their trips. Also looking over Chinese social media there's a lack of trust in there media's coverage of the virus and allegations that some lower level officials tried to hide the fact the virus had spread to their cities before word came down from Beijing that there would be consequences for doing that.

 

[Lerticus]

Lesser known fact: Coronavirus also is why Corona beer is drunk in Fast and Furious movies when they have never paid for product placement.



Family.

 

[Alias]

Heh. Love those videos.

 

[t-dugong]

Didn't the Chinese government cut off travel to and from Wuhan (virus epicenter) by now?

 

[Kinetic]

Didn't the Chinese government cut off travel to and from Wuhan (virus epicenter) by now?

They declared RACCOON on several cities, roughly 30 mil people in total.

(Fun fact, there's cat 4 b-lab in Wuhan)

 

[Lerticus]

Didn't the Chinese government cut off travel to and from Wuhan (virus epicenter) by now?

Oh yeah. That shit is locked down tight.

Chinese Authorities Begin Quarantine Of Wuhan City As Coronavirus Cases Multiply

Transportation in and out of the city of 11 million is being shut down as cases of the coronavirus are being reported throughout China and abroad. Wuhan is believed to be the contagion's epicenter.

www.npr.org

"Strictly implement emergency response requirements, enter into a state of war and implement wartime measures to resolutely curb the spread of this epidemic," urged a committee of Wuhan's top officials. "Homes must be segregated, neighbors must be watched."
...
Beginning at 10 a.m. local time (9 p.m. Wednesday ET), authorities in Wuhan, about 500 miles west of Shanghai, started sealing off public transportation, including its metro system, airport, train station and long-haul bus hubs. Livestreamed videos from the city show soldiers wearing face masks barricading the entrances to the city's train station Thursday morning to prevent passengers from entering and leaving the city.

As of early afternoon, cars were still allowed to exit Wuhan, the epicenter of a rapidly growing outbreak of a coronavirus that has sickened 830 people within China and killed 25, according to health authorities.

But officials also began sealing off highways entering the city. Authorities said they were screening passengers leaving and entering Wuhan, checking for fever and the illegal transport of wild animals thought to be the original vector for the virus.

They even shut down Chinese New Year celebrations, including blockbuster movie releases. Considering that movies during this time will bring in hundreds of millions of dollar-equivalents, this is a really big deal.

 

[Kinetic]

They even shut down Chinese New Year celebrations, including blockbuster movie releases. Considering that movies during this time will bring in hundreds of millions

You can say that, yeah, as they are constructing a hospital from the ground up to treat the infected. Which is quite baffling, as PLA should have deployed a field hospital in less than 24 hours.

 

[t-dugong]

That's not good on the government's part.

 

[Vorpal]

I heard that within 7 km of where the outbreak started (a meat wet market), there was a community banquet of 100K people eating from the same dishes, which was a couple days after there were already around fifty reported cases of infected people. Kind of illustrative of the rather dysfunctional and arse-covering handling of the outbreak in general (which means it was likely that it was around significantly longer than officially reported).

^Source. Bonus: Chinese memes at the end.

 

[Lerticus]

^Source. Bonus: Chinese memes at the end.

Watched at 2x speed until the memes. Need more coronavirus memes.

 

[Alias]

China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists

As the Wuhan coronavirus spread this month, Chinese authorities arrested people spreading "rumors" about the virus online and threatened journalists.

www.businessinsider.sg

Commentary: Wuhan virus compounds challenges facing China

The Year of the Rat looks set to get off on a rocky start, says the Financial Times' James Kynge.

www.channelnewsasia.com

The Chinese government response is better than the SARS outbreak in the early 2000's, but as pointed out by posters and the news still rather lacking in some areas and as result the number of people infected and hopefully only a small percentage are going to die is going to be higher than if they acted earlier as only in the last few days did they undertake major steps to contain this.

Plague game shoots to top of app chart as people recreate pandemics

The game's aim is to 'bring about the end of human history'.

metro.co.uk

Also a lot of people in China are playing Plague Inc as a short of coping mechanism.

 

[Rufus Shinra]

Two cases in France detected.

 

[Kinetic]

Two cases in France detected.

Confirmed or suspected?

 

[Lerticus]

Two cases in France detected.

Two cases of virus, or of Corona? One is worse than the other (I will not say which one is worse).

 

[Alias]

The news is saying two cases confirmed. France has developed a test allowing medics to rapidly diagnose people.

France confirms first three cases of coronavirus in Europe

France confirmed on Friday its first three cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, with two patients being hospitalized in Paris and the other in the southwestern city of Bordeaux..

www.cnbc.com

A second confirmed case in the US, a Chicago woman that had traveled to Wuhan.

CDC confirms second US case of coronavirus and is monitoring dozens of other potential cases

U.S. health officials diagnosed a second patient with the China coronavirus — a Chicago woman who returned from Wuhan with the infection.

www.cnbc.com

A Chinese woman boasted that she cheated checks causing a social media firestorm.

Coronavirus: Chinese embassy in Paris finds woman who 'cheated' checks

The woman boasted about taking medicine to bring her temperature down in order to clear customs.

www.bbc.com

 

[Alias]

China coronavirus: three new cases confirmed in Hong Kong

The Centre for Health Protection said all three patients’ respiratory specimens tested positive to the new coronavirus and they had all been isolated in hospital

www.scmp.com

SCMP is reporting a total of 1136 cases and 41 deaths.

Millions caught in central China lockdown, military doctors deployed to fight Coronavirus

Reports said the public transportation and travel restrictions could be affecting upwards of 35 million people in central China – that’s more than the population of NCR -- from where the previously unknown virus spread outwards.

www.hindustantimes.com

Medical personnel from the PLA have been sent to a Wuhan hospital.

 

[Eliar]

The news is saying two cases confirmed. France has developed a test to allowing medics to rapidly diagnose the sickened.

France confirms first three cases of coronavirus in Europe

France confirmed on Friday its first three cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, with two patients being hospitalized in Paris and the other in the southwestern city of Bordeaux..

www.cnbc.com

A second confirmed case in the US, a Chicago woman that had traveled to Wuhan.

CDC confirms second US case of coronavirus and is monitoring dozens of other potential cases

U.S. health officials diagnosed a second patient with the China coronavirus — a Chicago woman who returned from Wuhan with the infection.

www.cnbc.com

A Chinese woman boasted that she cheated checks causing a social media firestorm.

Coronavirus: Chinese embassy in Paris finds woman who 'cheated' checks

The woman boasted about taking medicine to bring her temperature down in order to clear customs.

www.bbc.com

"...AAAAAND GUESS WHO *COUGH* EUROPE'S *COUGH HACK* PATIENT ZERO *HACK BLEAAARGH* IS! BOOYAAAH-*VOMITS BLOOD, DIES*"

1847452347349 upvotes!

 

[t-dugong]

Well, fuck. You would have thought that bloody China of all places would know about quarantine what with all those reeducation camps. Or did Deng do away with those?

 

[Eliar]

Well, fuck. You would have thought that bloody China of all places would know about quarantine what with all those reeducation camps. Or did Deng do away with those?

What do you mean? it sounds like Authoritarian dictatorships are the best place to impose a quarantine in, provided the leadership actually admits there is a problem or it does not rely on Jesus to fix everything?

 

[Alias]

Well, fuck. You would have thought that bloody China of all places would know about quarantine what with all those reeducation camps. Or did Deng do away with those?

Well China missed "golden period of time" to limit the number of cases and deaths. Another issue is that some experts are worried that the quarantine may backfire as this bit from the Post article talks about.

"Cordoning off a region like China's Hubei province pens the sick together with the uninfected. It increases the burden on authorities, who must ensure the flow of food, water and other supplies to the quarantined area. It is nearly impossible to enforce. And it sows distrust in government at a time when public support is essential, prompting people to evade the restrictions or refuse to report their symptoms, experts said. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/unprecedented-chinese-quarantine-could-backfire-experts-say/2020/01/24/db073f3c-3ea4-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

There using the reeducation camps for Uyghurs and other Chinses Muslims and built new ones.

 

[t-dugong]

What do you mean? it sounds like Authoritarian dictatorships are the best place to impose a quarantine in, provided the leadership actually admits there is a problem or it does not rely on Jesus to fix everything?

Just a sarcastic comment on China not doing a very good job in containing flu epidemics. SARS, the H5N1 bird flu and now this new coronavirus.

*Checks sarcasm module, seems the bloody thing is always broken*

*Cutesadface*

 

[Inquisitor Solarion]

Well China missed "golden period of time" to limit the number of cases and deaths. Another issue is that some experts are worried that the quarantine may backfire as this bit from the Post article talks about.

"Cordoning off a region like China's Hubei province pens the sick together with the uninfected. It increases the burden on authorities, who must ensure the flow of food, water and other supplies to the quarantined area. It is nearly impossible to enforce. And it sows distrust in government at a time when public support is essential, prompting people to evade the restrictions or refuse to report their symptoms, experts said. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/unprecedented-chinese-quarantine-could-backfire-experts-say/2020/01/24/db073f3c-3ea4-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

There using the reeducation camps for Uyghurs and other Chinses Muslims and built new ones.

There are unfortunately very few ways to prevent the spread of disease. At best this is the usual self-projection of American notions of freedom.

But ultimately, I suspect that this has already reached SARS level of nonsense because of the incompetence of Wuhan authorities. Some Chinese guy I know told me that city has a reputation for being "the City of Liars".

 

[Lerticus]

There are unfortunately very few ways to prevent the spread of disease. At best this is the usual self-projection of American notions of freedom.

The probable hot zone where this virus started to spread was a "wet market". AKA choppy choppy bloody bloody sprayee sprayee everywhere and never a single drop of antiseptic applied to the entire area. Ever. Just hose the blood and entrails and shit down the grates at the end of the day. Pork, beef, poultry, seafood, all sitting in the open throughout the day and then contaminating everything because there are no actual walls between the biomatter flying through the air as it is cut and flung about recklessly.

If you say that there is no way to prevent this sort of thing from happening you are more full of shit than the intestines at a wet market. Food safety works. It doesn't stop everything, but it makes an outbreak like this one nearly impossible.

 

[Inquisitor Solarion]

The probable hot zone where this virus started to spread was a "wet market". AKA choppy choppy bloody bloody sprayee sprayee everywhere and never a single drop of antiseptic applied to the entire area. Ever. Just hose the blood and entrails and shit down the grates at the end of the day. Pork, beef, poultry, seafood, all sitting in the open throughout the day and then contaminating everything because there are no actual walls between the biomatter flying through the air as it is cut and flung about recklessly.

If you say that there is no way to prevent this sort of thing from happening you are more full of shit than the intestines at a wet market. Food safety works. It doesn't stop everything, but it makes an outbreak like this one nearly impossible.

Actually, it probably gets worse. That same person also told me that it is a known novelty in those parts for restaurants to slaughter live animals in the restaurant itself for customers just when ordered. They supposedly banned it, but no one pays attention.

 

[Lerticus]

Actually, it probably gets worse. That same person also told me that it is a known novelty in those parts for restaurants to slaughter live animals in the restaurant itself for customers just when ordered. They supposedly banned it, but no one pays attention.

It is a 50/50 problem.

Most of the butchered animals sit in the open, without any sort of refrigeration. This attracts insects and vermin.

If the animal starts off living there is a chance that they spread biomatter around either by getting loose, or by kicking/flinging debris out of their cages.

Either way, those sorts of markets are notorious for food poisoning and other health matters. Simple measures like stall walls to prevent cross-contamination or using disinfectant would reduce the problems quite a bit, but it is tradition and many of the proprietors are so poor that they couldn't afford to keep product in a cold sealed case, so things are unlikely to change.