First reported case of corona virus in Philadelphia
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landsbergfan
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IT just emailed and said they updated Norton Antivirus so I should be in the clear
7 confirmed.
italy had 3 confirmed cases on February 22. Now they got half the country quarantined and hospitals are so overloaded they are triaging and not everyone is able to receive the care needed
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landsbergfan
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what is our relative Corona %?
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Exponential growth is a mf. Fold a piece of paper 51 times and it is the distance to the sun.
and in the half hour since that post ALL of Italy is now quarantined. People asked to stay home. Schools closed until at least April 3rd. Chemo patients being told to not come for treatments.
but yea. I am sure that this happens every flu season.
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A co-workers daughter is in Philadelphia and works with a suspected case and has been around several other suspected cases. Co-worker saw her this weekend and the daughter was given the risk run-down today. Luckily co-worker had the day off today, because another person who works here is immunocompromised and another has an immunocompromised daughter. We've just been told to work from home for 2 weeks.
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No one said all of this quarantine madness happens every flu season. But tens of thousands die every flu season without this hysteria.
The flu is so underrated. Everyone thinks its just a 3C but its metrics definitely put it at elite 1C territory when you dig deeper.
Appleyard
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China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why.
Really interesting interview with WHO assistant director general.
Really interesting interview with WHO assistant director general.
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For reference, COVID currently kills at a much higher rate than the flu and so far has been 2-3 times more contagious.
The Spanish flu (which had a similar but lower mortality rate) began in 1917 and it wasn't until 1918 that its full impact was apparent. It's very, very early to be dismissive of this based on what we've seen.
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One of my best friends/people I am closest too is quarantined in Lombardy... right in the middle of where biggest outbreak was...
she says the worst thing is that she had to buy three weeks worth of eggs and bacon but now at least she can study her exams for medical school more efficiently.
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If that is her only chosen food supply then she and I are now best friends.
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She only started eating vegetables like 18 months ago. In her early 20s... better than my Dad. Who is 53 and still pretends to eat veg by putting it on his plate and then leaving it until last, eating a leaf or two, then throwing it in bin when Mum not watching.
Bacon, eggs, cheese and mayo was pretty much what I lived off for a couple of years. (and pulses, beans, pasta, sweet potatoes and veg, and fruit and nuts and yoghurt haha... but it was the running joke in my house.)
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I mean... over ~100mg/kg of your weight in cocaine or drinking a decent amount of bleach WILL stop you getting coronavirus.
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That’s just what Big Pharma wants us plebs to think. Trust social media.
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Him and my Mum had me at age 24 and 19...
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It's important to note the kill rate is very flawed at the moment. We don't even know how many people currently have it or had it and survived.
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