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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

    I don't know whether to be worried about it or not, but I think there's no need to fear for civilisation just yet. From what I can gather, it seems to be an unpleasant variation on normal flu, but not much more severe in terms of mortality rate. (Not that that's much consolation for the unfortunates who die, I'm not intending to make light of it.)

    Not wanting to cause further worry, but is antibacterial gel actually much use? The disease is, after all, caused by a virus not a bacterium. (There isn't any gel left in the supermarket anyway.) And yes, I have stockpiled toilet tissue, but only because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get any soon. The shelves are nearly empty around here.

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  • over 4 years ago

    I don't know whether to be worried about it or not, but I think there's no need to fear for civilisation just yet. From what I can gather, it seems to be an unpleasant variation on normal flu, but not much more severe in terms of mortality rate. (Not that that's much consolation for the unfortunates who die, I'm not intending to make light of it.)

    Not wanting to cause further worry, but is antibacterial gel actually much use? The disease is, after all, caused by a virus not a bacterium. (There isn't any gel left in the supermarket anyway.) And yes, I have stockpiled toilet tissue, but only because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get any soon. The shelves are nearly empty around here.

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