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What Happens If I Start A Thread About That "Coronavirus" Thing...?

Disambiguating Cynosure
over 4 years ago

Greetings, All... S'Me. Yes There is already a Thread about this, but I did not want to possibly invite whatever may happen upon this Thread onto another (innocent!) User, so, I begin this separate Thread here (a bit like My "Climate Change" Thread).

In social media this is currently a hot/constant topic, and rightly so... yet I have certain views concerning it which I was wondering about. Please try to be nice and I apologise in advance if I offend/anger anyone...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1233679/coronavirus-update-symptoms-flu-2020-china-flu-deaths

...Apologies that this is from "The Daily Express", but it is about the closest to what I M'self was thinking about this 'Coro-Flu'-Thing currently going on. Social Media *loves* to highlight Death, Destruction, Suffering, Contagion, etc. etc... but I have seen VERY few articles mentioning "survival rate" rather than "death rate" about Coro-Flu... and fewer articles pointing out that it is a version of INFLUENZA. 

I suffer badly from FLU Myself, and so do all of the things now recommended ("Social distancing", hand washing, etc.) as a matter of course. But now it is recommended for all to do...

In Japan, wearing face-masks is a common practice, for example. 

Also, in this Thread, I am carefully wondering about the following approach... Coro-Flu is just ordinary Influenza but has an "Identifiable Tag" of sorts; and that if *all* Influenza-s were able to be tracked in this way, then all of the statistics would be similar. (Regardless of starting point.)

...Pretty much post whatever You may want, anyone... I am seeking opinion. Even ordinary Influenza is not nice at all, but it is *not necessarily fatal*, and that is what was difficult to find out about this Coro-Flu-Thing.

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  • over 4 years ago

    The whole thing is probably a storm in a teacup, but I think I'll pick up a reusable respirator half-mask and UVC lamp all the same.  Already have hand sanitiser and wipes in the car as a matter of course, plus pasta and stuff in the chest freezer to live for a while.  At least assuming the power/water doesn't go out.

    The panic buying of toilet roll is an odd one.  I'd have assumed people would want the essential apocalypse survival stuff like coffee and booze and chocolate.  Plenty of fine literature around here to be commandeered in case of emergency.

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  • over 4 years ago

    The whole thing is probably a storm in a teacup, but I think I'll pick up a reusable respirator half-mask and UVC lamp all the same.  Already have hand sanitiser and wipes in the car as a matter of course, plus pasta and stuff in the chest freezer to live for a while.  At least assuming the power/water doesn't go out.

    The panic buying of toilet roll is an odd one.  I'd have assumed people would want the essential apocalypse survival stuff like coffee and booze and chocolate.  Plenty of fine literature around here to be commandeered in case of emergency.

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