Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

[Snow Leopard]

That's amazingly fast work by the scientific community. This Wuhan coronavirus made its first appearance on 31 Dec 2019, and now within 3 weeks, we already have a PCR test for it (according to the WHO website).

The test already existed, they just had to validate whether it worked for this strain.

I will rarely utter a complimentary word about a Communist government, but China is acing this one.

I'm not so complementary, they've known about this for some time and have been lying about the scale of the outbreak (hiding behind massaged "confirmed infection" rates), it wasn't until more than a few people died and the topic blowing up on Chinese social media that they started to act.

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

everyone visible outside is wearing a filtermask, which should be enough to catch most of the droplets

Weren’t they doing that already before the outbreak?

 

[Snow Leopard]

Weren’t they doing that already before the outbreak?

No. That is a bit of a false stereotype.

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

They did when I was there and 80% of people are wearing them here in Vietnam on a daily

 

[Patient4Life]

They did when I was there and 80% of people are wearing them here in Vietnam on a daily

Weren’t they doing that already before the outbreak?

Those cheap paper masks are effective for 5 minutes and not for the finer droplets

Yes. News coverage of China usually show citizens wearing masks. I believe that it is for people who are unwell. They are trying not to infect others. And air pollution. Not to protect from getting an infection. That is what I have been told a couple of times.

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

It’s mainly a pollution thing, they were all wearing masks 20 years ago in China. I’ve been playing a game of count the masks this afternoon while shopping, most are of the surgical variety but a few younger people have black or printed ones.

ETA: some have a small hole cut into the mouth area so they can smoke a cigarette while riding lol

 

[Saz94]

Super, hope they’re not doing it in north Vietnam too, my temperature is always crazy. I’m currently floating around in the sea not far from China. Had a hacking cough for last few weeks with temperature but I seem to have shaken it. Tons of people with hacking coughs here.

You're floating around in the sea?? I don't understand

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

I was on a boat in the South China Sea when I wrote that, now I’m back in mainland Vietnam. Been here for a month

 

[Saz94]

I was on a boat in the South China Sea when I wrote that, now I’m back in mainland Vietnam. Been here for a month

Oh wow, is this a permanent move to get away from the teletubbies or are you on holiday?

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

Just a holiday to get away from my ex. I’ve travelled the length of the country on the back of a motorbike. Resting in the support vehicle with the luggage when needed. Travelled with 10 other bikes. The blokes were amazing, carried me when I was paralysed etc.

my ex turned up at mine the day I left a month ago, saw the bag packed and asked if I was going away for the weekend. Told him, ‘nope! I’m off to Vietnam for a month by bike. See ya!’

 

[Saz94]

Just a holiday to get away from my ex. I’ve travelled the length of the country on the back of a motorbike. Resting in the support vehicle with the luggage when needed. Travelled with 10 other bikes. The blokes were amazing, carried me when I was paralysed etc.

my ex turned up at mine the day I left a month ago, saw the bag packed and asked if I was going away for the weekend. Told him, ‘nope! I’m off to Vietnam for a month by bike. See ya!’

Wow

 

[Snow Leopard]

As I suspected, the Chinese government first tried to cover up the outbreak and sadly even promoted a large communal banquet in the area, despite knowing about the outbreak.

 

[Hip]

The test already existed, they just had to validate whether it worked for this strain.

Ah right. But they did use the viral genome sequencing data to optimize the PCR test:

We designed candidate diagnostic RT-PCR assays before release of the first sequence of the Wuhan virus. Upon sequence release, three assays were selected based on their matching to the Wuhan virus as per inspection of the sequence alignment (Figures 1 and 2). All assays can use SARS-CoV genomic RNA as positive control.

Source: here

 

[Patient4Life]

Snakes could be the source of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

 

[Hell..hath..no..fury...]

Snakes could be the source of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

oh great! I ate a snake and it was a cobra. I swallowed its heart while it was still beating in a shot glass of vodka. If you do silly things like that, you deserve a hideous virus

I’ve heard they’re stopping people flying out of China tomorrow.

 

[ScottTriGuy]

I couldn't help but notice Netflix's well timed release of Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak

www.netflix.com › titlePandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak | Netflix Official Site

 

[large donner]

Oh my God theres Chinese people in Scotland!! 4 of them.......



China coronavirus: Patients in Scotland being tested

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51223111

 

[rvallee]

This reminds me of playing the mobile game 'plague'. The key to successfully wiping out humanity was evolving to be really infectious before the Olympics spread you all over the world.

That game has left me kind of rooting for the coronavirus.

You know it gets real when Madagascar closes all its ports. So far so good.

 

[Mij]

some have a small hole cut into the mouth area so they can smoke a cigarette while riding

So if they touch an infected surface they can inhale all the way into their lungs! Perfect.

 

[Patient4Life]

A case in Texas.