COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[UUJblue]

Rumours that the source was bats?

 

[Scottyboi]

Rumours that the source was bats?

Yep, they love eating anything that fucking breathes the Chinese. Put in some appaling sanitation and you have a nice flu.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Ebola and SARS started with bats too.

good job I had the chicken chop Suey on Saturday.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Have to laugh at the Chinese people who insist on walking around with masks over there faces, but are quite happy to eat a live bat or other dangerously idiotic food.

 

[Gabriel]

Have to laugh at the Chinese people who insist on walking around with masks over there faces, but are quite happy to eat a live bat or other dangerously idiotic food.

Fascinating piece on the history of mask wearing.
https://qz.com/299003/a-quick-history-of-why-asians-wear-surgical-masks-in-public/

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

An ex gf has a Corona-tion st virus. I had to get rid before she infected me with it.

 

[grunge]

Fascinating piece on the history of mask wearing.
https://qz.com/299003/a-quick-history-of-why-asians-wear-surgical-masks-in-public/

A few Chinese / Japanese mates of mine ave all said the same thing about these, and its usually to do with smell, a lot of them come scented and are used to hide smells rather than anything functional.

doesn't seem to be mentioned in that article though.

Here's one.
https://japantoday.com/category/fea...gical-masks-its-not-always-for-health-reasons

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Rumours that the source was bats?

There’s pictures going round of Wuhan’s bat soup dishes. How anyone could possibly dig into something like that puzzles me. It looks anything but tasty. Fucking weirdos.

 

[grunge]

You’re quite correct on the need for accuracy and factoring in those who have actually recovered.

Yes, please share the article.

The BBC did say that only a minority of the cases are severe and there’s different levels of the virus also I think.

Let’s just hope they get it under control.

This was the article.

https://www.wired.com/story/could-chinas-new-coronavirus-become-a-global-epidemic/

Calculation quotes from

https://maimunamajumder.com/

"
So far, Chinese health authorities have followed 1,070 people who’ve come into contact with infected patients in Wuhan, cleared 739 of them, and are still monitoring 331, according to official reports. They have yet to share information about individual cases with the rest of the world—essential details such as what their age and sex are, when they started developing symptoms, what they might have been exposed to, and what condition they’re currently in. That information could be vital to assessing the mortality risk factors associated with 2019-nCoV, says Maia Majumder, a public health researcher at the Computational Health Informatics Program based out of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. “Then we could analyze what makes people who die from the infection different from the ones that recover.”

Lacking this data, researchers can only make vague estimates of the virus’s fatality. The math is pretty simple: Divide the number of deaths by the number of people known to have died or survived. It can be tempting to include hospitalized individuals, but because their outcomes are unknown, they can provide a false sense of security. In mainland China, nine out of 471 infected people have died. Doesn’t seem so bad. But if you exclude the hundreds of patients who are still hospitalized—who may yet die or survive—now you have a death rate approaching 20 percent. Is that closer to the real death rate? Hard to say. The point is, it’s all just guesses if you only have case numbers at this point in an outbreak."

its also from the 22nd so quite out of date now and appears to have been edited in places.

 

[Ban-jani]

This was the article.

https://www.wired.com/story/could-chinas-new-coronavirus-become-a-global-epidemic/

Calculation quotes from

https://maimunamajumder.com/

"
So far, Chinese health authorities have followed 1,070 people who’ve come into contact with infected patients in Wuhan, cleared 739 of them, and are still monitoring 331, according to official reports. They have yet to share information about individual cases with the rest of the world—essential details such as what their age and sex are, when they started developing symptoms, what they might have been exposed to, and what condition they’re currently in. That information could be vital to assessing the mortality risk factors associated with 2019-nCoV, says Maia Majumder, a public health researcher at the Computational Health Informatics Program based out of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. “Then we could analyze what makes people who die from the infection different from the ones that recover.”

Lacking this data, researchers can only make vague estimates of the virus’s fatality. The math is pretty simple: Divide the number of deaths by the number of people known to have died or survived. It can be tempting to include hospitalized individuals, but because their outcomes are unknown, they can provide a false sense of security. In mainland China, nine out of 471 infected people have died. Doesn’t seem so bad. But if you exclude the hundreds of patients who are still hospitalized—who may yet die or survive—now you have a death rate approaching 20 percent. Is that closer to the real death rate? Hard to say. The point is, it’s all just guesses if you only have case numbers at this point in an outbreak."

its also from the 22nd so quite out of date now and appears to have been edited in places.

Thanks for sharing.