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    Quote Originally Posted by Messor View Post
    It’s amazing how people can worry so much about a virus, yet forget what the body needs to fight off viruses and infections. You need a healthy lifestyle, a normal weight, regular exercise, enough sun, and none of that smoking stuff. If you read the articles you’ll see most of the dead were already immune compromised.

    Just live healthy, and worry less.
    The thing is, you and I may very well survive it, but kids don’t have the same chances, even when they are healthy to begin with.
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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    Hunting and shooting more is the best way to keep healthy and keep viruses at bay, just stay away from snakes....

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    Coming from the Northern Hemisphere where flu season is coming to a peak, I am not so sceptical. At the Hospital of 300 odd beds and a 5 bed ICU, we saw 8 dead of Influenza A (H1N1/ swineflu since start November. Apart from one healthy person who got Miocarditis, the rest were end stage COPD, patients on immunosuppressants and oncology patients.
    In terms of surviving an extented ICU stay, it depends who look after you and your physical status beforehand. In the end multi organfailure and secondary infections kill you.

    At least we do not spend a lot of time indoors without proper ventilation. Those out in the sun with few people around them are at the lowest risk.

    For the preppers- isolate yourself now, buy Tamiflu. The only masks that help prevent Aerosol spread diseases is a N95 particle filter.

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    Problem with masks is that they lose effectiveness after about an hours use unless some kind of germkilling agent has been applied. As they become damp and stay warm from exhaled breath they turn into ideal petri dishes for viruses and bacteria.

    Normal N95 partcle masks are only effective when worn by sick people to catch the germs before it spreads.

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    The good news is that viruses tend to mutate to a more benign and less deadly, strain. Not a more deadly strain. Similar to what happened with Ebola. So as time goes on people's immune system is introduced to a less deadly strain of the virus, and a healthy immune system quickly eradicate the problem.

    The worst of this will be felt in China.

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    The Mexicans are kinda confused why their beer sales are going down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bodhi_ View Post
    The Mexicans are kinda confused why their beer sales are going down.
    good one

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    FFS i am leaving for a cruise of the far east on Friday.
    we where ment to be going to Hong Kong and macu on the cruise but now going to Vietnam instead.
    all i am hoping for is that i do not end up in a floating quarantine or get quarantined in some airport somewhere.
    travel agent and cruise company all seem pretty confident and happy that correct measure have been put in place
    but ja looking forward to seeing someone sneeze on a plane and watching people reactions

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zoo Keeper View Post
    SARS only killed 800 people, that's statistically insignificant.

    Normal flu, pneumonia, TB has killed tens of thousands in the same period.

    Yet China has locked down over 50 000 000 people over a virus which can be survived with medical treatment.

    This appears to be a reaction way over the top for a flu virus, unless the conspiracy theorists are to be believed and this is a virus which escaped their facility in Wuhan.

    Could this be China's Chernobyl?
    Well, unlikely as research has uncovered a link to both snakes and bats, meaning it's a zoonotic disease (starts in animals and spreads to humans).

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    Default Re: Coronavirus. Already here?

    A lot of people left Wuhan before the lockdown

    https://www.asiaone.com/asia/thousan...-bangkok-tokyo

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