Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Blueclouds]

How do you know when to self isolate yourself. You could have fatigue but no cough. I'm confused.

 

[john jako]

So If you had it, then recover, is it possible to catch it again?

 

[neil999]

Might be time to change the title of this thread to COVID-19. Or Italia e finito.
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I have mentioned this already, it's very serious thread needs a proper title as its at the least very cringe @RAFUH @Groucho @AndyC

 

[Paris]

Yeah I agree. Republican idiots over here are purposely referring it to "Chinese" which has repurcussions for Chinese-Americans here and tries to pin blame on China rather than on Trump's unsurprising incompetance in dealing with this serious issue.

*bangs head on wall*

In news that will surprise absolutely nobody, secret documents instruct Chinese diplomats to call COVID-19 'Italian Virus', claim it did not originate in Wuhan, and promote Xi Jingping as the heroic leader who defeated the virus. Thus, it becomes clear as to why China pressured the WHO into renaming this virus so that it was not in anyway connected to China and so they can put all the blame on the evil foreigners.

Those type of people who find the thread insulting and want this thread to be renamed are just falling into the CCP trap.

Keep the thread title as it is, or rename the thread title 'Chinese Communist Party Virus' but don't ever take the blame off them. We must do our part to ensure the blame is kept squarely on their shoulders.

Those who are a friend of the CCP, as a few on here appear to be, can go and swivel on it.

***ENDS LECTURE***

 

[Barnfred 55]

TBF politically-connected disaster profiteers are rarely if ever executed in fascist or communist regimes; even scum of the kind that ran firms like IG Farben or Dehomag (who also escaped the noose in the subsequent war crimes trials).

Very true but not all of them. Depends which side they are connected to and whether they can buy their life with. bribes

 

[orchard]

*bangs head on wall*

In news that will surprise absolutely nobody, secret documents instruct Chinese diplomats to call COVID-19 'Italian Virus', claim it did not originate in Wuhan, and promote Xi Jingping as the heroic leader who defeated the virus. Thus, it becomes clear as to why China pressured the WHO into renaming this virus so that it was not in anyway connected to China and so they can put all the blame on the evil foreigners.

Those type of people who find the thread insulting and want this thread to be renamed are just falling into the CCP trap.

Keep the thread title as it is, or rename the thread title 'Chinese Communist Party Virus' but don't ever take the blame off them. We must do our part to ensure the blame is kept squarely on their shoulders.

Those who are a friend of the CCP, as a few on here appear to be, can go and swivel on it.

 

[blue61]

So If you had it, then recover, is it possible to catch it again?

In theory, yes.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

So If you had it, then recover, is it possible to catch it again?

And if not just wait for COVID-20, it won't be long.

 

[Paris]

Berk.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

some scientists say the virus is settled in Europe fine and it will resurface every winter, so better get used to it...

 

[tsubaki]

some scientists say the virus is settled in Europe fine and it will resurface every winter, so better get used to it...

great, another immigrant for the usual suspects to rouse up the mob with

 

[Tubey]

I actually think it's important to very clearly blame China for this. The culture and practice that generates these threats consistently need to be taken seriously.

 

[LostLegend]

It begins...

 

[Deleted member 48881]

It begins...

phew...

 

[alvinh]

There are good reasons for renaming the virus to something non geographic specific. If for no other reason than to reduce incidents like the assault on the Singaporean student recently: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...d-singaporean-assault-london-covid19-12510662

That said, there are good reasons why the origins of this are important, because this was predicted:

Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic?

Hundreds there have already died of a new bird flu, putting world health authorities on high alert

www.smithsonianmag.com

At least two flu pandemics in the past century—in 1957 and 1968—originated in the Middle Kingdom and were triggered by avian viruses that evolved to become easily transmissible between humans. Although health authorities have increasingly tried to ban the practice, millions of live birds are still kept, sold and slaughtered in crowded markets each year. In a study published in January, researchers in China concluded that these markets were a “main source of H7N9 transmission by way of human-poultry contact and avian-related environmental exposures.”

Flu viruses can mutate anywhere. In 2015, an H5N2 flu strain broke out in the United States and spread throughout the country, requiring the slaughter of 48 million poultry. But China is uniquely positioned to create a novel flu virus that kills people. On Chinese farms, people, poultry and other livestock often live in close proximity. Pigs can be infected by both bird flu and human flu viruses, becoming potent “mixing vessels” that allow genetic material from each to combine and possibly form new and deadly strains. The public’s taste for freshly killed meat, and the conditions at live markets, create ample opportunity for humans to come in contact with these new mutations.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

China may have experienced a relatively mild flu season in 1918 compared to other areas of the world.[104][105][30][106] This has led to speculation that the 1918 H1N1 strain of flu itself originated from China; thus, there was greater resistance amongst the Chinese population due to acquired immunity from previous exposure.[107][30] However, the view that China's experience of the flu in 1918 was mild has also been challenged. Though there was no centralised collection of health statistics in the country at the time, some reports from its interior suggest that mortality rates from influenza were perhaps higher in at least a few locations in China in 1918.[108] However, at the very least, there is little evidence that China as a whole was seriously affected by the flu compared to other countries in the world.[109] Although medical records from China's interior are lacking, there was extensive medical data recorded in Chinese port-cities, such as then British-controlled Hong Kong, Canton, Peking, Harbin and Shanghai. This data was collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was largely staffed by non-Chinese foreigners, such as the British, French, and other European colonial officials in China.[110] As a whole, accurate data from China's port cities show astonishingly low mortality rates compared to other cities in Asia.[110] For example, the British authorities at Hong Kong and Canton reported a mortality rate from influenza at a rate of 0.25% and 0.32%, much lower than the reported mortality rate of other cities in Asia, such as Calcutta or Bombay, where influenza was much more devastating.[