COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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There must be thousands of people who've travelled on planes from Italy or China currently incubating and spreading this, I think cases will explode in the next few weeks which is too late for the ordinary folk.

Think the shutdowns needed to be pre-emptive and happen now.
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
I think attaching or quoting your source of information would be helpful so that people can make a judgement as to its authenticity. People do get scared at these sorts of numbers and the one thing that won't help is panic.
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Sorry, posted sources the other day so assumed it had been seen, maybe thread is moving to fast for assumptions.

was in one of Dr Campbell's videos ( the 30 % comment ) from there it's maths. 30 % of 7.7bn is 2310000000, 2310000000 * 0.02 is 46,200,000‬

Edit Link to my post with source, others in the thread stated where they saw the 30% verified and one of the comments lead me to an article that said with pretty stringent control measures. struggling to find that link now

https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/covid-19-—-coronavirus.344314/page-161#post-12479447
 
grunge said:
Mid range estimates say this will infect about 30% of the global population by the end of the year, even with some pretty stringent control measures. with its currently known mortality rate thats about 45m dead by the end of the year.

Id say some over reaction to contain this thing is needed.
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II would say that if there is any realistic chance that this is accurate then we would have already seen countries closing their borders and taking other radical action to restrict movement within those borders.
 
purplenose said:
II would say that if there is any realistic chance that this is accurate then we would have already seen countries closing their borders and taking other radical action to restrict movement within those borders.
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See link above..

And China for example? where the WHO are basically using them as an example of the way to handle it.

No link, that was from a live update from the WHO on Friday, its the reason they havn't called it a pandemic yet.

Edit: the WHO update was recorded.

 
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A Chip shop worker in Dundee has the virus after a trip to Italy, authorities are worried as she came into contact with over 260,000 customers over the weekend.
 
eyalluvitt said:
A Chip shop worker in Dundee has the virus after a trip to Italy, authorities are worried as she came into contact with over 260,000 customers over the weekend.
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Think you added 4 too many 0s
 
Can’t understand how all these people who came back from known areas of contamination didn’t self isolate. Are they that bloody stupid ?
 
Has anybody who has had the virus and recovered given an insight into the nature of the illness, and do they know if once you've had it do you then become immune.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Imagine the Champions league final....



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This is so good, totally deserves more likes!
 
eyalluvitt said:
A Chip shop worker in Dundee has the virus after a trip to Italy, authorities are worried as she came into contact with over 260,000 customers over the weekend.
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Population of Dundee is a little shy over 248,000. I know the Scottish diet is to some 'unhealthy', but no need for such reporting. :-)
 
Makes you wonder why we didn't just shut up shop when the infection rates started to rise, after reading how the worlds economy is going to be hit I can hazard a reasonable guess. Universities in a bit of a panic because Chinese students are returning to the places where they study, what did they expect?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...est-scotland-universities-wuhan-a4343056.html

Now I don't know the logistics or even if we can seriously put a lid on it but it looks like we haven't even been bothered trying.
 
Due to go on a cruise on 28th March that departs from Genoa, and we're all flying into Milan that morning then getting the train down to join the ship.
Hoping the situation might have improved by then but I'm thinking it gets worse before it gets better.

Think we might need to formulate a plan B if the cruise does indeed get canned.
 
grunge said:
Mid range estimates say this will infect about 30% of the global population by the end of the year, even with some pretty stringent control measures. with its currently known mortality rate thats about 45m dead by the end of the year.

Id say some over reaction to contain this thing is needed.
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Given that if accurate that would mean about 380k dead in this country..you might be right.
 
purplenose said:
Given that if accurate that would mean about 380k dead in this country..you might be right.
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Yep, some random news sources ( click bait I hope ) are saying its more likely to be 60/80% of the global population getting it... but they never give sources.
 
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