Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[eternal dog mongler]

Welp, we pretty much turned every hardware store in our area upside down and all we could find were the 'useless' surgical masks. Haha, if it arrives in Puerto Rico I'm done. Will keep you posted if I meet corona-chan

Surgical masks are fine. There was no significant difference in SARS transmission rate with health care workers wearing surgical masks vs. those wearing N95s.

Realistically you're going to fuck up removing them and infect yourself that way.

 

[Ahriman]

Not sure if old, but:

Augustus on Twitter

“So Chinese pet owners are killing their cats and dogs by throwing them out of the window, in fear of their pets spreading the coronavirus.”

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F pupperinos and meowerinos

 

[Uncle Ted]

What kind of cheap vodka should I get? Here in Hong Kong we are all run out of normal medical alcohol, so is mask, grains and many vegetables. It is like going through a war lol.

Get the highest proof/percentage you can find at the lowest cost. The proof/percentage will be on the label. 100 proof will start fires, but any kind of liquor will disinfect to some extent. I
got Aristocrat vodka, but I dunno what you can get in HK.

 

[MadDamon]

And now we see why the Red Cross isn't handing them out. Because if they did the Corrupt Chinese Pricks in receiving would take a box or 10 for their family, a box or 2 to sell, etc. They'd be gone instantly.

Oh, I forget to mention that the company who donated all those 36000 N95 was related to that small hospital that is not fighting the plague and using up 18000 mask in 1 day. People are seeing through the smoke and straight out calling it money laundering from the hospital.

Some good news though. HuWa got their first patch of medical supply 1 hour ago. No from the Red Cross of course. It is donated by former schoolmate of doctors working in the hospital.

 

[soft breathing]

Germany again. The 6th infected here is now confirmed.
(no translation this time since there's no other relevant or new info in the whole article)

Nun sechs Infektionen bestätigt: Kind in Bayern an Coronavirus erkrankt.

Im Deutschland gibt es einen weiteren bestätigten Coronavirus-Fall: Es ist das Kind eines bereits erfassten Kranken. Ärzte rechnen damit, dass die ganze Familie betroffen ist. Die Zahl der Infektionen dürfte weiter steigen.

www.tagesschau.de

Remember the kid of the infected guy I talked about earlier? Here.
Exactly that one is now confirmed to have the virus. So does his wife and two other of his kids, according to the article.

Well, how much do you guys want to bet that this kid infected the whole kindergarten and it will just spread like crazy from there?

 

[Vulcanusii]

Not sure if old, but:

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Augustus on Twitter

“So Chinese pet owners are killing their cats and dogs by throwing them out of the window, in fear of their pets spreading the coronavirus.”

twitter.com

F pupperinos and meowerinos

"Eating live mice and bat soup is alright, but I better throw my pet out a 20-floor window and leave it's decaying corpse out on the street so I don't get sick!"

 

[Ow The Edge]

Okay, here’s what’s going to happen. You, a good few months down the line:

Spoiler: speculation

The Wu Flu spread to all parts of China, and slowly and surely around the rest of the world. China’s numbers were found to be ridiculously low, but no-one wanted to accuse them directly of a cover-up. Chen Qiushi released a dingy video purporting to show that Wuhan’s new hospital was in fact a hastily created mass grave. The stills that went viral on the internet sure look like they show a row of neatly arranged limbs, but who knows, really? Anyway Chen went missing after he posted the video.

In the U.S., the CDC, hampered by an incompetent government determined to salvage relations with China at all costs, botched the quarantine. Nothing too dramatic happened. The flu cut a swathe through the morbidly obese in Texas and the elderly in Florida. The great decimation of the fatties resulted in nothing much more than making “’My 600lb life” mildly interesting.

In your average town USA, life is normal with the exception of being a whole lot more boring. Cases of Wu Flu sprung up everywhere, and while nasty, it is rarely fatal. It was proven to be contagious before the appearance of symptoms, however, which means it was impossible to stop and people became increasingly paranoid.

You still go to work but whenever you are alone in the elevator you swab all the buttons with an antibacterial wipe. If someone is in there with you, you hit the button with your pinkie knuckle (because you don’t want to look insane, right?) while you both plaster yourselves to opposite walls.

Work is dull and you see the same people day in, day out. No-one visits from other offices and no-one leaves. Chad the Bastard from IT leveraged the crisis into a lucrative new position as head of video comms, and now he makes you sit through endless dull meetings about the latest and greatest ways to gaze sadly through the screen at the hottie who used to come to the building for training events. Your friend Mick discovered that strategically coughing in the vicinity of the nervous boss results in almost instantaneous sick leave, and thus is never there.

Your life is boring, boring, boring. Hardly anyone goes to movies anymore, or drinks on Fridays, and even if you try, the moment anyone coughs the room gets really quiet and the atmosphere turns sour. So here you sit, typing away on kiwi farms discussing the latest leaked Chinese death pit video.

Thank god for the discount vodka.

If this disease ravages China, even if it's limited elsewhere (too early to call that imo), the economic shockwaves alone are going to do a number on the world.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

If this disease ravages China, even if it's limited elsewhere (too early to call that imo), the economic shockwaves alone are going to do a number on the world.

Their liquidity crisis and the impossible trinity their head regulator is fucking up has chickens that, when theu come home to roost, will do far worse than this virus.

 

[simulated goat]

Surgical masks are fine. There was no significant difference in SARS transmission rate with health care workers wearing surgical masks vs. those wearing N95s.

Realistically you're going to fuck up removing them and infect yourself that way.

Would liquid resistance help for preventing droplet transmission?

Not sure if old, but:

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Augustus on Twitter

“So Chinese pet owners are killing their cats and dogs by throwing them out of the window, in fear of their pets spreading the coronavirus.”

twitter.com

F pupperinos and meowerinos

Medieval plague behavior. It's always an irony because dogs and cats keep vector animals under control.

Poor things. Hopefully, they won't wind up as food when supplies run out.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

sorry, hit the wrong button apparently. Just woke up and fumbling with tablet.

This is why we don't let goats on the computer.

There was one case report I saw where someone started coughing up blood. This was also seen in H1N1. It's rare but not really unusual or unmanageable. Maybe sucks if it happens to you though.

 

[Unog]

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132 deaths
110 recovered

54% kill rate so far isn't promising.

(The 6057 infected are "in progress" numbers. They don't drag that kill rate down until they progress to "recovered.")

Also, Australia has apparently confirmed the "contagious before symptoms" thing. Last I heard that was still considered quackery?

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Hector Torres on Twitter

“#BREAKING Australia's chief medical officer Brendan Murphy has confirmed that #coronavirus is contagious before people show symptoms. The major update comes as Victoria's chief medical officer confirmed there is a second case of #nCoV19 in that state.”

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They eat Dog Testicles, Raw Bats, and Turtle Asshole Soup. They're already pretty fucking close to the stone age.

I don't think this has been posted, so here's Japan confirming asymptomatic infection:

Japan confirms infections without symptoms | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Japan's health ministry officials have confirmed the first two cases of coronavirus infection without any symptoms in the country. They say the cases without signs of infection are the first to be made public outside of China.

www3.nhk.or.jp

Spoiler

Japan confirms infections without symptoms

Japan's health ministry officials have confirmed the first two cases of coronavirus infection without any symptoms in the country. They say the cases without signs of infection are the first to be made public outside of China.
The ministry confirmed that three evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan have the new type of coronavirus.
The three individuals were among 206 passengers who returned to Japan on Wednesday on a government-chartered flight.

A man in his 40s and a woman in her 50s do not have any signs of infection, but they have tested positive.
Another man in his 50s reported pain in his throat and later developed a fever before testing positive.

The number of people in Japan who've been infected now stands at 11.
The virus was not detected in 201 other passengers from the same flight. Two passengers refused to take the test. And health officials say they will continue to persuade them to get tested.

The ministry says the confirmation of infections of two people who had not traveled to Wuhan proves person-to-person transmission in Japan.

But the ministry is urging the public not to be overly anxious, as the coronavirus has not spread over a wide area.

I'm in a rush, might come back and edit this later with archives if no one has archived yet.

Important news release from the BBC UK today where they state, and I quote:

"Last night, doctors in Germany confirmed cases there had spread before people even developed symptoms. "

Now I take Germans at their word, and the BBC UK is pretty darn reliable.

I'd expect the CDC and WHO to within 24 hours confirm we've been fucked and didn't know the cock was up our ass until afterwards.

Fasten your seatbelts, its going to be a bumpy ride.

So can we call it as "infectious while asymptomatic" yet or do we need another five countries to confirm that it is, indeed, transmissible with no/incredibly minor symptoms?

 

[Secret Asshole]

Get the highest proof/percentage you can find at the lowest cost. The proof/percentage will be on the label. 100 proof will start fires, but any kind of liquor will disinfect to some extent. I
got Aristocrat vodka, but I dunno what you can get in HK.

For disinfection, get something purely distilled. Vodka is the best, and it needs to be at least 120 proof (60% alcohol by volume). 60-70% ethanol is the sweet spot of disinfectants. Also if you're using that amount of alcohol to sanitize your hands daily, your skin on your hands will be incredibly dry and might even crack and bleed at the cuticles. Its why alcohol hand disinfectants usually contain lotions. So if you're going the alcohol route, make sure you use aloe after you sanitize your hands. Its going to do you no good if you're washing your hands in alcohol and they dry out and bleed.

Well, here in NYC, under the benevolent Chairman De Blasio, illegal Mexican street food vendors without a license thrive because Espaillat, who finally got Charlie Rangel's seat, is the biggest advocate for these parasites. Did I mention they don't have permits to sell food on the street? It's racist to make them get permits, you're a Nazi if you believe otherwise. There's a filthy looking Mexican woman who comes out to sell her homemade tamales near my building. She wears no gloves and sells them from a shopping cart. The only people who buy them are the rich white libs in the area who apparently have never been to Mexico during Spring break and were never warned against buying Mexican street food because vendors have horrible hygiene and non-existent sanitary practices. Their customers come down with hepatitis, thyroid and e.coli after eating this delicious street food. Any Mexican with an IQ over 90 will stop you from buying street food. I wonder if these woketards think hepatitis/typhoid magically disappears when illegals wade across the Rio Grande?

So I predict if the bat flu explodes in NYC these illegal street food vendors will play a huge part in spreading it but any mention of it will be memoryholed because it's racist.

I haven't even mentioned the Chinese street food vendors and wet markets we have in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. I wouldn't be surprised if they supplied, upon request, strange and exotic critters to their customers, at premium prices. I used to work in a part of Chinatown that few tourists saw and I got the feeling you could get anything you wanted, as long as you were willing to pay for it.

Oh God, those people. The Mexican food vendors with bags of mangos and shit selling it out of shopping carts and shit. I have no idea why the fuck would anyone buy from these dingy looking shopping cart motherfuckers when there are perfectly good food trucks and carts everywhere that are permitted and make better food. Like for 8 bucks you can get a platter of lamb, rice, a salad and a drink from a Halal cart. Why would you spend three bucks for filthy tamales just fucking standing out in the open with no heat? It makes no fucking sense. Five bucks more and you get good food from a vendor with a permit. The hilarious part is a lot of the permitted food vendors are actually legal immigrants who have to compete with illegals who don't have permits and don't have any hygiene practices. Its fucking pathetic.

I loathe De Blasio. All he wanted was to be president, he never gave a shit about NYC. Progtards have no concept of what disease or science is. They're 'I LOVE SCIENCE, BILL NYE LOLZ'. They don't get shit.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

So can we call it as "infectious while asymptomatic" yet or do we need another five countries to confirm that it is, indeed, transmissible with no/incredibly minor symptoms?

And go against Whiny der Poop's wishes? The WHO? JA! Their willingness to bend to worse korea's wishes has been a source of mockery amongst actual medical researchers for a while now. I believe someone already linked on this thread that Nature study that basically was the scientific consensus itself going "oh for fucks sake already" after their latest gaffe with "traditional" pseudoscience.

 

[Fork Cartel]

Surgical masks are fine. There was no significant difference in SARS transmission rate with health care workers wearing surgical masks vs. those wearing N95s.

Realistically you're going to fuck up removing them and infect yourself that way.

Oh really? I think they've said repeatedly that surgical masks won't prevent infection, N95 won't prevent infection, and although both are better than nothing N100 is the ideal option

 

[BingBong]

A good visual of the infection rate vs. SARS:

 

[Shield Breaker]

A good visual of the infection rate vs. SARS:
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This has been pointed out already. It's not the infection rate but the notice or what have you. China sat on this for a month. It's going to skyrocket out of the gate.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

This person had no symptoms. Now what if you were on a plane with someone a week ago who they found out got sick and decide to quarantine you for having been on that flight? We're on some shaky ground here.

Pretty sure Wuhan Flu is asymptomatic, which means symptoms may not be visible in the infected, so tone the 'tism down to bog-standard 'tism, like the rest of us.

 

[BingBong]

Google Sheets

Timeline starting on 1/25, with sources.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

So, the Shanghai Stock Exchange will be opening back up this Monday (they shut it down for this week to prevent a mass sell off). How hard will the Bogs crash it?

 

[FlightOfTheBumbleBee]

Bill Gates predicted a Coronavirus-like outbreak

In an episode of the Netflix 'Explained' series aired late last year billionaire Bill Gates warned of the likelihood of a global pandemic breaking out from one of China's wet markets

www.dailymail.co.uk

"In the episode titled 'The Next Pandemic' the documentary producers go to a wet market in Lianghua, China, where animals are killed and the resulting meat sold in the same place.

This, the documentary explained, makes the wet markets a 'disease X factory' as the different animal corpses are stacked on top of each other, blood and meat mixing, before being passed from human to human."