Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[LetThemEatCake]

Four more people diagnosed with coronavirus in UK

The government issues new powers to force people into quarantine as UK cases double to eight.

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The UK government has announced new powers to fight the spread of coronavirus, saying it poses a "serious and imminent threat" to public health.

People can now be forcibly quarantined or sent into isolation and will not be free to leave under the new measures.

However, the actual threat level announced by Public Health England last month remains "moderate".

There have been more than 40,000 cases of the virus globally, mostly in China, with four so far in the UK.

The total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised.

In a statement on Monday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Arrowe Park Hospital, on the Wirral, and Kents Hill Park conference centre, in Milton Keynes, have been designated as "isolation" facilities in the UK.

It comes after the Foreign Office chartered two repatriation flights out of Wuhan, the city where the new coronavirus emerged.

On Sunday, around 200 British and foreign nationals evacuated on the UK's final rescue flight arrived at RAF Brize Norton.

Evacuees were taken to Kents Hill Park for 14 days of quarantine. Britons evacuated on an earlier flight from Wuhan are currently in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital.

The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said the announcement "gives the legal underpinning to the quarantining of people back from Wuhan in Milton Keynes and the Wirral".

A Department of Health spokesman said: "We are strengthening our regulations so we can keep individuals in supported isolation for their own safety and if public health professionals consider they may be at risk of spreading the virus to other members of the public.

"This measure will rightly make it easier for health professionals to help keep people safe across the country."

It comes after a fourth person was diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK on Sunday, having caught the virus in France.

 

[Fat Is Divinity]

William Yang on Twitter

“Breaking - Chinese expert Zhong Nan-Shan led a research on the clinical traits of the #coronavirus and concluded that the incubation period of the virus can go from 3 days to as long as 24 days. Previously, the longest incubation period was believed to be 14 days.”

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[wtfNeedSignUp]

Apparently coronavirus can't survive for more than 2 days on a doorknob outside, but can survive reasonably close proximity to a nuclear blast.

Big brain opinion you have there.

If I remember correctly, the range on a nuclear blast range isn't that big. Fire spreads more easiely though and doesn't get the entire world against you.

 

[Disheveled Human]

If there is ANY serious indication that China is taking a "lol we're fucked, so we don't care if Corona chan visits you too" attitude to this, then you might see nukes start flying.

They already did by jailing people talking about a new "SARS" virus like the doctor that died recently who warned people before it became common knowledge and getting the WHO to suck their cock and spread flu flights to all of the world. We are getting bamboozled and fucked if you can't see that then I don't know what to tell you fam. It would be stupid for China to want to be the only country feeling the pinch if they know they are getting hit. From a strategic standpoint I would want everyone to get hit to keep an even playing field. We are not friends.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

So with the current (known) number of infected and that it's hit North Korea (no word yet on Madagascar? Huh), is Corona-chan moving on from the club straight to running a brothel now, or what? It's been a while since @Jet Fuel Johnny gave us the stripper metaphor, but she's got this succubus vibe going on.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I'm not saying it's GOING to happen.

I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me anymore if it did.

This fucking timeline? With the Pollution Goblin Hive Queens making the worst possible decisions every fucking step of the way, I wouldn't be shocked if it happened.

It's a constant thing in books and movies and there's probably some smooth-brained Goblin peon that's going to drool on the carpet as he suggests it eventually.

After all, this fucking timeline, man. Guessing what's going to happen in two weeks seems an exercise in futility.

Corona-chan moving on from the club straight to running a brothel now, or what? It's been a while since @Jet Fuel Johnny gave us the stripper metaphor, but she's got this succubus vibe going on.

I'd say she's moved from the stripper pole to doing lap-dances and is seriously thinking about putting on her clubbing clothes and getting her twerk on.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

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William Yang on Twitter

“Breaking - Chinese expert Zhong Nan-Shan led a research on the clinical traits of the #coronavirus and concluded that the incubation period of the virus can go from 3 days to as long as 24 days. Previously, the longest incubation period was believed to be 14 days.”

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Up to 24 days. Fucking hell. This makes containing this almost impossible.

 

[Coleslaw]

Some Chinese Christians are starting a petition campaign to rename Huoshenshan ("fire god hill") and Leishenshan ("thunder god hill") "Hospitals" because they think it's idolatry.

 

[ZMOT]

A nuclear detonation.

not gonna happen. the environmental impact is simply too great and too long. also if you want sanctions that's the way to do if you turn your own population into a mushroom cloud.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

4 more diagnosed in UK; meanwhile new quarantine regulations have been brought in because some moron dude from the original Wu Han evacuation has been acting the maggot and threatening to abscond from quarantine in the Wirral.

Four more people diagnosed with coronavirus in UK

The government issues new powers to force people into quarantine as UK cases double to eight.

www.bbc.co.uk

The number of people infected by the coronavirus in the UK has doubled to eight - after four more patients in England tested positive for the virus.

It comes as the government announced new powers to keep people in quarantine to stop the spread of the virus.

In order to do this the Department of Health has described the coronavirus as a "serious and imminent threat" to public health.

The overall risk level to the UK remains "moderate".

There have been more than 40,000 cases of the virus globally, mostly in China. The total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised.

Confirming the four new cases on Monday, chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty said they were all "known contacts of a previously confirmed UK case, and the virus was passed on in France".

He added that they have been transferred to specialist NHS centres at Guy's and St Thomas' and the Royal Free hospitals in London.

The BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said the new measures were announced because a passenger on the first UK flight from Wuhan, who is currently being held in quarantine on the Wirral, "is threatening to abscond".

"Currently the regulations are not strong enough to stop him leaving before the 14-day period is up so they brought in these new regulations to try and compel him to stay put," he said.

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A Department of Health spokesman said: "We are strengthening our regulations so we can keep individuals in supported isolation for their own safety and if public health professionals consider they may be at risk of spreading the virus to other members of the public.

"This measure will rightly make it easier for health professionals to help keep people safe across the country."

On Sunday, around 200 British and foreign nationals arrived on the second and final flight chartered to the UK from Wuhan by the Foreign Office. Evacuees were taken to a Milton Keynes conference centre for 14 days of quarantine.

Why have they issued this advice?

Tackling the coronavirus threat has taken the government into uncharted territory. Quarantining hundreds of British citizens for two weeks has never been done on this scale in modern times.

Whitehall sources say the latest Department of Health announcement on the virus threat covers the tightening of some regulations to help enforce quarantine powers.

This gives legal underpinning to the quarantining of people back from Wuhan in Milton Keynes and the Wirral.

They all signed contracts committing to the 14-day isolation but it's understood that more rigorous regulations are needed to ensure people stay the course.

This is not a ramping up in official warnings to the wider public. The language used in the official release describing an "imminent threat" was over dramatic and confusing and probably there only for obscure legal reasons.

The actual threat level announced by Public Health England a couple of weeks ago remains moderate.


In a statement on Monday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Arrowe Park Hospital, on the Wirral, and Kents Hill Park conference centre, in Milton Keynes, have been designated as "isolation" facilities in the UK.

A statement on the Department of Health website said: "The Secretary of State declares that the incidence or transmission of novel coronavirus constitutes a serious and imminent threat to public health, and the measures outlined in these regulations are considered as an effective means of delaying or preventing further transmission of the virus."

The latest UK cases come after a British man who caught the virus in Singapore was transferred to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Thursday, from Brighton. He was announced as the third person to test positive in the UK.

Five British nationals who have tested positive in France were diagnosed after they came into contact with him, according to the French health ministry.

Meanwhile, a British man in Majorca has also been diagnosed with coronavirus, while his wife and two daughters tested negative.

The family said they had been in contact with a person who tested positive for coronavirus in France, the government in the Balearic Islands said.

The new virus was first reported in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The city of 11 million has been in lockdown for weeks.

The outbreak was declared a global emergency by the WHO on 30 January.

 

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[TheRedChair]

Apparently coronavirus can't survive for more than 2 days on a doorknob outside, but can survive reasonably close proximity to a nuclear blast.

Big brain opinion you have there.

This virus can survive up to 5 days on a smooth surface.
68 degrees in a humidity of 40 to 50% and this fucker can still infect.

A table top is a smooth surface. A Door knob is not. Nor is clothing or walls as they have texture.

And most of Asia is as moist and nasty as a witch's unwashed armpit that has ripened under the tropical weather.

Wuhan Coronavirus Can Survive Up to Five Days on Surfaces

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[din_far]

If I remember correctly, the range on a nuclear blast range isn't that big. Fire spreads more easiely though and doesn't get the entire world against you.

New WuFlu mutation causes firebombing insanity. Wuhan burns itself to the ground. Xi is very sad and redoubles efforts to quarantine all with WuFlu symptoms - especially annoying journalists and political opponents.

 

[Judge Holden]

Given that the concept of "CCP nuking heavily infected cities" has been entered in to discussion, I believe that there are two sets of simple and incontrovertible truths that need to be acknowledged.

1) Using nuclear weapons against your own damn country to avoid the cost and effort of quarantine and medical treatment would be easily the single most despicably stupid and pointless and wasteful atrocity in human history. Between the mass destruction of property and resources, the environmental effects of whatever shit the chinese put in their nukes, the sheer cost of human life, the absolutely apocalyptic and well deserved geopolitical nightmare china will create for itself, and the inevitable mass uprisings against the government from the enraged population either immidiately or a few months later

2) The CCP is infested with absolute fucking retards with zero forward thinking other than "impulsively do whatever big impressive looking action I think will get me immidiate asspats and kudos from the boss, no matter how badly it fucks everything up medium-long term" and who have absolutely no regard or concept for such piddling things as "economic cost" or "environmental impact" or "basic fucking humanity", and indeed the very CCP party has a long and well documented history of slaughtering tens of millions for the sake of jawdroppingly idiotic and useless ego projects that nobody thought through or dared reconsider even when the bodies started piling up

In my honest opinion, even with the absolutely pathetic shambles we have seen from the party thus far the higher ups are not nearly stupid enough to seriously consider this shit. However if the occasionally speculated mass civil unrest happens and coincides with some inner party coups/purges that wind up shunting the most mindlessly aggressive and ruthless party shitbag to the top of the totem pole, then.....yeah I wouldnt exactly count out some really nasty shit being ordered.

On the other hand, even in worst case civil war/violent coup scenarios I think any stupidly evil "demonstration of party might" will be more likely to involve some nerve gas fuckery rather than nukes given how easier the cleanup/attempts at denial would be

 

[AverageAnimeWatcher]

A nuclear detonation.

1) Using nuclear weapons against your own damn country to avoid the cost and effort of quarantine and medical treatment would be easily the single most despicably stupid and pointless and wasteful atrocity in human history.

I am no expert, but given radiation can cause mutations, isn't it possible that the virus could survive a nuclear fallout anyway and mutate into something far worse?

 

[LetThemEatCake]

This virus can survive up to 5 days on a smooth surface.
68 degrees in a humidity of 40 to 50% and this fucker can still infect.

A table top is a smooth surface. A Door knob is not. Nor is clothing or walls as they have texture.

And most of Asia is as moist and nasty as a witch's unwashed armpit that has ripened under the tropical weather.

Wuhan Coronavirus Can Survive Up to Five Days on Surfaces

www.sciencespacerobots.com

It can survive, but it can't multiply. Meanwhile, this is exactly why handwashing and not shoving fingers in your mouth and up your nose and wiping at your eyes is the most important factor of all. If you pick up the virus on your fingers from touching a surface, it can't harm you unless it gets into your body via mouth, nose, or eyes. Normal skin is impermeable to these viruses. Wash hands regularly and properly and always before eating, wash hadns before washing face morning and night, use alcohol-based handgel through the day and don't touch your face when out and about and you're not going to be at risk that way. This is why kids pick up so many infections - as well have haaving less developed immune systems, they put their hands in their mouths, pick their noses, cough and sneeze without care for anyone else, put random objects in their mouths, crawl all over the floor and touch everything in sight and only handwash when directed to. And many parents don't direct them to at all, or even teach them better hygiene such as covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing.

 

[Judge Holden]

I am no expert, but given radiation can cause mutations, isn't it possible that the virus could survive a nuclear fallout anyway and mutate into something far worse?

Zero chance.

Radiation IRL isnt some magic super-mutation causer, it just damages and kills cells and causes them to regenerate defectively or not at all, with any mutation being due to said defective regeneration, and near universally being a negative and detrimental mutation that heavily impairs the organism's ability to survive in the long run.

The only chance it could lead to a serious mutation is if enough people get ARS from the fallout and their extra compromised immune systems then become host to the virus and allow it to mutate the same way Spanish Flu is speculated to have become far nastier after hitting the trenches of WW1 and the burnt out immune systems of the soldiers within.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I am no expert, but given radiation can cause mutations, isn't it possible that the virus could survive a nuclear fallout anyway and mutate into something far worse?

Radiation causes mutation upon reproduction, so the radiation has to affect the virus and then the virus has to infect someone within it's lifespan, which is likely to be hours in post-nuke conditions. And the mutation has to be survivable for the virus. And the mutation has to be sharply negative in some way.

A whole lot of dice have to come up snake eyes in a row for something like that to happen.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Coronavirus: Hubei province reveals fatality rate for first time, Wuhan comes in second at 4.06%

WUHAN - The government of Hubei province, the central Chinese province that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has given the official fatality rates for the virus for the first time, Chinese media reported.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Coronavirus: Hubei province reveals fatality rate for first time, Wuhan comes in second at 4.06%

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WUHAN - The government of Hubei province, the central Chinese province that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has given the official fatality rates for the virus for the first time, Chinese media reported.

Unexpectedly, Wuhan, the provincial capital city where the virus first emerged, registerd a fatality rate of 4.06 per cent, came in second. It was topped by Tianmen, a nearby city, which has a death rate of 5.08 per cent, Caixin Global reported on Sunday (Feb 9).

With 871 deaths reported as of Sunday, the fatality rate of Hubei province on the whole is 2.88 per cent, the report said.

Since Feb 5, Huanggang has been overtaken as the second most hard-hit city after Wuhan.

As of end of Feb 8, Xiaogan, a city with a population of 4.92 million to the west of Wuhan, reported 2,436 confirmed cases. That compares to the 2,141 cases found among the 7.5 million-strong population of Huanggang, a city to Wuhan's east.

Mr Jiao Yahui, deputy director of the medical administration bureau of the National Health Commission, had earlier explained that the high mortality rate in Hubei can be attributed mainly to the fact that most of the critically ill patients are warded in the province's three main hospitals which are under strain from a lack of beds as well as professional medical staff.



According to medical experts and frontline doctors, 15 to 20 per cent of coronavirus patients could develop severe conditions, and among them 25 to 30 per cent worsen to critical condition, Caixin Global reported.
There has yet to be a widely agreed mortality rate for the disease. Several ICU doctors estimate that the death rate among patients in critical condition ranges from 10 to 40 per cent, meaning the overall mortality rate may be 0.6 to 1 per cent.

Hubei reported 2,618 new confirmed cases and 91 new deaths on Sunday, local health authorities said on Monday, Xinhua reported.

Wuhan reported 1,921 new infections and 73 new deaths, and the cities of Huanggang and Xiaogan reported 115 and 105 new confirmed cases, respectively, according to the Hubei Provincial Health Commission.

The province also saw 356 patients discharged from hospital after recovery on Sunday. It had seen 1,795 patients discharged after recovery from hospital by Sunday.

Hubei had 29,631 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection by Sunday, with 871 deaths and 5,505 cases still in severe or critical conditions.

Across mainland China, there were 3,062 new confirmed infections as of Sunday, bringing the total number so far to 40,171.

Here is some sad shit circulating on reddit , first hand experience of a girl losing both parents in a week

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Eat the bat soup biggots/ its just the flu bro

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Twitter

“I’ve just been at the airport seeing off members of an advance team for the @WHO-led #2019nCoV international expert mission to #China, led by Dr Bruce Aylward, veteran of past public health emergencies.”

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WHO sending advanced team, the comments are brutal not ratioed yet but is going there

first japanese dead GG

武漢で死亡の日本人は新型肺炎　外国人27人感染　中国（時事通信） - Yahoo!ニュース

【北京時事】中国外務省の耿爽副報道局長は10日のネット上の記者会見で、中国本土で同日までに27人の外国人が新型コロナウイルスによる肺炎に罹患（りかん）し、8日未明に日本人、6日夜に米国人の計2人が武 - Yahoo!ニュース(時事通信)

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And that what i got for you today folks i hope you have your bunkers ready with steady supply of tendies and hours of anime and porn downloaded .

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Mindray is the big Chinese ventilator company... from their Twitter

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I had to look Mindray up to see which country it belonged to. It's Chinese.

Nobody should be donating anything to the Chinese at this point. Save it for yourself. The Chinese seem to have fucked this up before they bothered to tell anyone else what was happening.