The Nice People No. 17

chris_m

Doozergirl said:

And what is a forumite?  

I think it's meant to be Latin - Forum go 

vivatifosi

I've just noticed that my favourite US channel HGTV, has recently launched in the uk  I love American property programmes and now I'll be able to OD.

Pyxis

chris_m said:

Doozergirl said:

And what is a forumite?  

I think it's meant to be Latin - Forum go 

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Nice one!

I thought I had logged out last night, but just now found I was still logged in. 

Pyxis

It’s interesting that earlier in the outbreak, one news source said it was thought to be have come about via the wild animal trade.
if that’s true of this outbreak, and of the SARS one, maybe China should really think about changing the cultural dependence on and preponderance of wild creature ‘medicines’ and suchlike.

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

Pyxis said:

...it was thought to be have come about via the wild animal trade.

It's a secret plot by vegans to take over the world

  

seriously, though, many species are on the endangered list because of it.
when you think that most of these medicines are just placebo, it’s very sad.

michaels

vivatifosi said:

I've just noticed that my favourite US channel HGTV, has recently launched in the uk  I love American property programmes and now I'll be able to OD.

Glad you popped up Viva - you can advise us all on our Corona Virus prepping

vivatifosi

michaels said:

vivatifosi said:

I've just noticed that my favourite US channel HGTV, has recently launched in the uk  I love American property programmes and now I'll be able to OD.

Glad you popped up Viva - you can advise us all on our Corona Virus prepping

Haven't got a clue.  Will it come to Inner Herts? Is it already here?  Are people on the train concerned? In library land we've all had coughs and splutters. Normal this time of year though.

GDB2222

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-new-study-finds-incubation-period-of-up-to-24-days

If the incubation period really is three weeks as that report suggests. And if half of patients have no fever when first seen by doctors, so are hard to identify. And if patients are infecting others for much of the three weeks incubation period. And if the virus can survive outside the human body for several days, as Pastures reported.... I am no expert on contagious diseases, but those conditions look really, really bad to me. 

For comparison, the incubation period for SARS was five days. So, Coronavirus could be much harder to contain? 

Also, the mortality rate is reported as 5%. However, that is with intensive and expert treatment. If much of the population becomes infected, treatment is going to be pretty basic. 

I am thinking about what preparations we can reasonably make. Particularly, low cost options, like laying in stocks of items we use anyway and which have a long shelf life. 

Pyxis

Is Lydia ok?
Haven’t seen a post from her in a long time. 
I was wondering whether the Aged P got all his books sorted, and whether he’s been able to cut ties with his old house. 

PasturesNew

GDB2222 said:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-new-study-finds-incubation-period-of-up-to-24-days

 

I am thinking about what preparations we can reasonably make. Particularly, low cost options, like laying in stocks of items we use anyway and which have a long shelf life. 

With those odds, you need your own island and you need to have gone there a month ago, expecting to come back in 2022. 
The way it's stacked it looks like: everybody will get it, some will die... lessons will be learned. 
I don't think one can avoid it if it turns out to be as widespread as your post indicates.  With those odds everybody will get it, some won't know, some will know and will live, some will die. 
My small attempts to avoid it seem daft... but it's early days and the thing is: nobody knows really .... what it is, how it moves, how long it lasts, how many are carriers.