Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PITA]

Why? Because it fits your agenda to say so even though you have posted nothing to back it up. Somewhere in here I did post an article from a peer reviewed journal that concluded SARS-CoV is natural in origin.

This is a virus that primarily uses animals as hosts. It is hardly shocking that it has jumped back to an animal.

Please stop with this until you can post actual data to support your theory or I am going to begin to wonder if your theory has intent that is not acceptable on GOT.

Go on, do it.

 

[orly]

Why? Because it fits your agenda to say so even though you have posted nothing to back it up. Somewhere in here I did post an article from a peer reviewed journal that concluded SARS-CoV is natural in origin.

This is a virus that primarily uses animals as hosts. It is hardly shocking that it has jumped back to an animal.

Please stop with this until you can post actual data to support your theory or I am going to begin to wonder if your theory has intent that is not acceptable on GOT.

??????

We have whole conspiracy threads. Unless you are making the (colossal) leap that he is being racist.

 

[Goat]

Mildly inappropriate turn of phrase

 

[peteblue]

I'm going to look like @Old Blue 2 if this carries on much longer.

Doesn’t look that bad.....

 

[PITA]

403 deaths in England today

Hate to say it but that sounds like good news.

 

[RAFUH]

Not the only reason to stall either. While a vaccine may be a year or so off, delaying massive spread of this allows science to catch up and analyse effective treatment for the pneumonia that is fatal.

If a drug is found that lessens the mortality rate of COVID-19, then that will be as important a step as a vaccine, and that could realistically be found inside six months.

Yes, if it already exists. Several antivirals are being tried, including those that are still in research settings without an indication. Unfortunately viruses usually require drugs that are very specific to them. If we have to start from scratch of drug development, it could take longer than vaccines.

 

[RAFUH]

Are you a Nigerian Prince by any chance?

Female ginger Nigerian Prince.
That would be a hard one to pull off

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

There are some. Funding dried up when SARS didn't cause enough problems/kill enough people and/or become an annual epidemic

There isn’t a single tested and approved vaccine for any coronavirus.

 

[neil999]

??????

We have whole conspiracy threads. Unless you are making the (colossal) leap that he is being racist.

Errr... The the conspiracy threads are bit of a joke tho no????

 

[RAFUH]

There isn’t a single tested and approved vaccine for any coronavirus.

Agreed none approved. There are some SARS vaccines in researchers' storage. They were developed but never made it all the way through testing and certainly not to mass production because of lost funding.

 

[Goat]

 

[orly]

Errr... The the conspiracy threads are bit of a joke tho no????

Dunno, gets pretty heated in there, so some must believe it.

It's hardly a conspiracy, or a racist accusation, for example to suggest the Chinese COVID-19 figures are deeply suspicious. All you need to do is overlay their curve with quite literally every other country in the developed world.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Doesn’t look that bad.....

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I'm not quite 'that' short ffs

 

[Brisan123]

If you want to go for 'herd immunity' or whatever you call it - which unfortunately until there's a vaccine is the only long-term solution - you have to ensure your healthcare system can hack it.

So you spend a month or the six weeks we had pumping as much money in as possible. You get the extra hospitals ready, you get the beds ready, the ventilators and PPE. You have the tests ramped up. You do all of that.

If it turns out you've overreacted, fine, but what it does is buy you time and that's what was needed.

Herd immunity will kill hundreds of thousands in Britain and Millions in the states
I dont think its a realistic option

 

[Walken]

Dunno, gets pretty heated in there, so some must believe it.

It's hardly a conspiracy, or a racist accusation, for example to suggest the Chinese COVID-19 figures are deeply suspicious. All you need to do is overlay their curve with quite literally every other country in the developed world.

That doesn't really have anything to do with origins of disease, which would be the conspiracy theory