Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

A fair percentage of the 'forced labour' are likely to be convicts.
They can get their sentences reduced by agreeing to manual labour tasks like construction, Chinese funded construction projects in Africa have loads of convict labour gangs.

We called it Australia.....

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Are they Chinese?

No - Big Jim is Irish and clunk is from Banbury

 

[Walken]

The Thai authorities have refused to stop all flights from China because of the $$$$. Disgusting, tbh. Human life be damned.

They are probably arresting some burmese lads as we speak to appease the media

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Its takeaway night? Should i have a nice succulent Chinese as usual, my favourite have been away in China for the New Year, now back.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Its takeaway night? Should i have a nice succulent Chinese as usual, my favourite have been away in China for the New Year, now back.

I'd call them up to check if they are opening tonight, at the moment they are sneezing ten to the dozen but are hopeful that a cup of lemsip will sort them out.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I'd call them up to check if they are opening tonight, at the moment they are sneezing ten to the dozen but are hopeful that a cup of lemsip will sort them out.

Thank you, just going to pop into this Spoons establishment for a recky and then Ill get one on the way home.

 

[Kenshin]

Getting silly now.

• Symptoms are basically the flu.
• It's killing people who are old or have weak immune symptoms .....like the flu.
• Still not proven to be deadly given the number infected Vs the number of deaths.
• Still not given a name despite it being a big deal , other Corona viruses have names

Its fine though. The metro site already has an interview with a English bloke who didn't make the flight, wants money on a go fund me page to rebuild his life back in the UK. He blames Brexit for not getting the flight back, had a fever weeks ago so may have had it already and is now running low on face masks .

 

[dandydan]

Getting silly now.

• Symptoms are basically the flu.
• It's killing people who are old or have weak immune symptoms .....like the flu.
• Still not proven to be deadly given the number infected Vs the number of deaths.
• Still not given a name despite it being a big deal , other Corona viruses have names

Its fine though. The metro site already has an interview with a English bloke who didn't make the flight, wants money on a go fund me page to rebuild his life back in the UK. He blames Brexit for not getting the flight back, had a fever weeks ago so may have had it already and is now running low on face masks .

Is the shutting down of major cities an annual thing in China then?

 

[Kenshin]

Is the shutting down of major cities an annual thing in China then?

It's an over reaction to the flu. Nothing that has been reported so far changes my mind. It's literally doing the same thing as the flu , affecting the same people in the same way.

Basically if you are old then it can kill you. If you are young then you seem to be ok, with some slightly more unpleasant experience than the normal flu.

 

[dandydan]

It's an over reaction to the flu. Nothing that has been reported so far changes my mind. It's literally doing the same thing as the flu , affecting the same people in the same way.

Basically if you are old then it can kill you. If you are young then you seem to be ok, with some slightly more unpleasant experience than the normal flu.

Call me a cynic but the measures in place and the reports of low numbers of dead from the state media smell a bit fishy.

 

[Kenshin]

Call me a cynic but the measures in place and the reports of low numbers of dead from the state media smell a bit fishy.

I agree. I'm only going on what is reported but by all means this could be a lot more serious and dangerous than we are led to believe. Not ruling that out at all.

For example all the actual people from around the grenfall tower said the death count there was a lot higher than what was being reported from knowing how many people were in there beforehand.

Just going on everything I could possibly know about it not being Chinese or in China right now, it's a bad flu. If there is more information that suggests it's a really serious thing, we haven't been told about it , despite the hysteria.

 

[verreauxi]

Didn't take long, but here is the DNA sequence. The first sets of long "nonsensical looking" letters in the amino acids that each set of nucleotide triplets (codon) codes for. And if you scroll further down, you have the entire DNA sequence (e.g., sequence of A, T, G, C) of the virus.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, co - Nucleotide - NCBI

 

[peteblue]

Who names a deadly virus after a bottle of lemonade.......

 

[bol-uk]

Who names a deadly virus after a bottle of lemonade.......

You've never tried Coke Ebola?

 

[wm02]

Didn't take long, but here is the DNA sequence. The first sets of long "nonsensical looking" letters in the amino acids that each set of nucleotide triplets (codon) codes for. And if you scroll further down, you have the entire DNA sequence (e.g., sequence of A, T, G, C) of the virus.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, co - Nucleotide - NCBI

This may be a bit of a weird question and I should probably know the answer already as my degree was in biology, but why is it a DNA sequence for an RNA virus? Would have expected to see U rather than T. Is it just a case of converting all U’s to T’s?