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Post by Buttler on Mar 14, 2020 18:15:01 GMT
There is a school of thought in the UK that it would be better for people to catch it so a 'herd immunity' can develop meaning the virus won't be as effective if it strikes again. That's good but it means a lot of people are at risk of dying in order to achieve this. This is totally insane. But hey, it's only my opinion.
P.S. I won't show you any videos of what's happening here as I don't want to scare you.
As I said before, be careful.
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Post by eloneen on Mar 14, 2020 19:08:37 GMT
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Post by Buttler on Mar 14, 2020 21:06:08 GMT
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Post by unomusette on Mar 14, 2020 21:21:27 GMT
I'm not sure if the media reactions are helping currently, they seem to be fuelling panic. I agree, they are doing too much speculating which is just winding people up needlessly. There should onlyt be facts and whatever the government is telling us to do, then they should move on and cover other news.
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Post by eloneen on Mar 14, 2020 21:32:18 GMT
I'm not sure if the media reactions are helping currently, they seem to be fuelling panic. I agree, they are doing too much speculating which is just winding people up needlessly. There should onlyt be facts and whatever the government is telling us to do, then they should move on and cover other news. As long as the government is actually telling the public the truth....
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Post by Horacewimp on Mar 14, 2020 21:59:34 GMT
China seems to be getting on top of their outbreak, what I’m really hoping for is that once towns and Cities start opening back up again the virus doesn’t strike again and they are back to square one.
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Post by tremblinwilbury on Mar 14, 2020 23:30:37 GMT
Let's not forget that there are labs working 'round the clock to develop a vaccine. It'll take time.
Even so, knowing that is reassuring...
- Wuhan Shake and elbow bump -
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Post by Timeblue on Mar 14, 2020 23:50:48 GMT
There is a school of thought in the UK that it would be better for people to catch it so a 'herd immunity' can develop meaning the virus won't be as effective if it strikes again. That's good but it means a lot of people are at risk of dying in order to achieve this. This is totally insane. But hey, it's only my opinion.
P.S. I won't show you any videos of what's happening here as I don't want to scare you.
As I said before, be careful.
When I said 'that's good' I didn't mean it as being a good idea personally. This thing is going to get a whole lot worse before we see any improvement...
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Post by elophile on Mar 15, 2020 1:13:54 GMT
I'm on my 3rd day of complete "social distancing". I've got two more weeks of food and booze... made a big soup!
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Post by eloneen on Mar 15, 2020 2:02:49 GMT
I hope that our collective efforts to self-isolate and distance ourselves socially will actually help flatten the curve, so that far fewer lives are put at risk. Scary times.
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Post by BIuebird on Mar 15, 2020 5:52:10 GMT
I'm a hypochondriac and an anxious person in the best of times, so I am having a lot of heightened anxiety right now. Although, my anxiety in this case is more for people I care about than it is for my health. My parents, my grandad, and my in-laws are all over 60, and my brother is immune compromised and so are several of my friends. Both Mr. Bluebird and I still have to work or we won't be able to pay our bills, so unfortunately hunkering down is not an option for us right now. We are also in the middle of having our kitchen and bathroom renovated, so we have people coming in and out of our house, and it makes me anxious that I don't know where they have been, or how often they are washing their hands. There has been much disinfecting of doorknobs. Mr. Bluebird thinks I am being paranoid, but the Governor of Pennsylvania just officially closed all schools today, and encouraged all non-essential businesses to close. Stay safe out there, everyone!
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Post by Grroosss on Mar 15, 2020 8:03:14 GMT
I've been sent home from university; both nobodyschild and I had our schools announce this weekend that classes and extracurriculars are cancelled and will be transitioning to online instruction for the next few weeks. Neither of us were particularly happy about this and I'm worried about the difficulties this will pose for my hands-on lab classes, but coronavirus hasn't hit our area very hard and so hopefully things will be back to normal soon. In the meantime, it's a great excuse for us to visit our local record shop, which has lightheartedly advertised hand sanitizer and lack of large crowds along with their new arrivals. Of course we're taking proper precautions, but otherwise in my household the anxiety is low and the 'rona jokes are aplenty, poking fun at the toilet paper shortages and how you can't seem to go five minutes in conversation without the virus being mentioned; nobodyschild said one of her teachers had a laugh too by having them move their desks apart to the recommended social distancing separation of 6 ft for a day, just to see how impractical that is in a classroom setting. In all seriousness, I hope that everyone stays safe, especially those in the more affected areas. I think people's fear is stemming more from the mass public panic than from the coronavirus itself--though originally written about the atomic bomb, not coronavirus, a friend posted some wise words from C.S. Lewis, and I thought I'd share them because I agree that they are good to keep in mind during these times: "In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. "How are we to live in an atomic age?" I am tempted to reply: "Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents." In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty. This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."
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Post by vlogdance on Mar 15, 2020 11:50:52 GMT
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Post by Buttler on Mar 15, 2020 12:23:01 GMT
I really doubt a vaccine will be available before 18/24 months.
I am also very skeptical about it, 'cause they tried to create one in the past for the SARS/MERS but they failed.
The biggest "Problem" is that it's really hard to create a vaccine against a virus that has a low mortality rate (5% more or less).
It could be more dangerous than the virus itself...
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Post by eloneen on Mar 15, 2020 14:32:58 GMT
Buttler I know that even with the intense pace of work on it now, a vaccine will be a long time in the making, but I was heartened to hear from a leading epidemiologist and former CDC director on CNN today that he is optimistic about the work that is being done now to produce treatments in the next few months. These treatments could substantially reduce the number of cases that progress to the most severe degree, even though they would not offer a cure. That is not much help to those afflicted now, of course, but it is heartening nonetheless. Hang in there, friend!
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