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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.World battles virus epidemic as cases multiply outside China
By KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
Some trust data coming from China. Others question it.
Way too early to say what COVID-19 is or isn't. Propagandists are having a field day with it. Some, like Limbaugh, saying it's being weaponized to harm Trump, playing up his purported victimhood. Others that world leaders PutinXiTrump (sounds like a dirty French word) are trying to drive share prices down so they and their fellow global elite can buy larger amounts of shares in key industries to increase their control of the global economy.
With the US CDC 'weaponized' to protect Trump, are there any government agencies anywhere that can be trusted? Which NPO is most reliable.
KnowBetter
Burning Bush, if you really trust China's numbers then this might not be that much of a concern but it jumped the fire line somehow and ended up in Iran and Italy and is spreading from there. It's only a matter of time. Iran's numbers are also suspect.
The following makes you think, if you are able to understand "Rate of Transmission".
Above quote taken from here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#repro
The Coronavirus will take quite sometime to "burn itself out". It will spread. How far? Who really knows but it's just getting started on the rest of the world. I predict based on today's trends that the Olympics will be cancelled.
K3PO
It's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, but winter is coming.
1glenn
Listen to scientists, not politicians. Politicians want to make themselves look good, scientists want to save the world.
darknuts
Of the cases that have been closed, roughly 10 percent have died. Not what I call a weak flu.
The Avenger
China is under-reporting Coronavirus cases by up to 50X
Epoch Times got ahold of official government documents, and discovered the Chinese goverment is tweaking the numbers by a factor of up to 52X in some cases. That's not 52 percent, that's 52X.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/leaked-documents-reveal-chinas-shandong-province-faked-coronavirus-infection-data-real-numbers-up-to-52-times-higher_3251354.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
RonriiUrufu
Over here in Germany it is indeed a wee bit worrisome that the poor fellow who came down with COVID has been merrily celebrating carnival in the west of the country and his wife, who has meanwhile been tested positive as well, is a kindergarten teacher. It might lead to another cluster like the one in northern Italy and despite I firmly refuse to give in to overworrying, I might use public transport a bit less and wash my hands more thoroughly after gripping handles. Still no need to panic, though.
I might panic if folks in hazmat-suits paint my door with a plague cross because I dared to cough in public. It's hay fever season yet!
Be sensible and take precautions - fear will only make your immune system more vulnerable.
CrazyJoe
YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR LUNG CAPACITY TO KNOW IF YOU ARE INFECTED AND LOSING LUNG CAPACITY IN THE ASYMPTOMATIC STAGES.
Your lungs have excess capacity you don't use. This helps you get through lung infections when you need to. You won't notice if this excess capacity is slowly vanishing without a reference. A bread bag is a reference everyone has that is pretty much uniformly made and easy to use.
Squeeze all the air out of a bread bag. Take the deepest breath you can and blow it into the bread bag as far out as you possibly can. Twist the bag to trap the air, down to where the bag is fully inflated holding pressure. Mark where the air fills the bag to. ONE BAG PER PERSON. Keep the bag, and occasionally check to see if you can still fill it to the mark. If you can't, something is amiss and you just got an early warning for FREE.
cleo
Really? I have no idea what a bread bag is. It sounds like a bag one keeps bread in, which to me is a common or garden plastic bag. Is there a difference? Does a plain old plastic bag work just as well? I think it would have to be a rather large one to hold full lung capacity.....
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RonriiUrufu
In Germany we got pretty large bread bags... some other advice I heard was to breathe through slightly closed lips or onto your finger in front of them when you have breathing difficulties - if this makes breathing easier, you got asthma. If it doesn't, see a doctor...
CrazyJoe
@cleo
Use an ordinary plastic bread bag.
cleo
You mean I gotta go buy a loaf of that sweet white starchy stuff that passes for bread here? The wholewheat mixed grain bread I get from the baker's when I don't have time to bake usually comes in a paper bag.....
Mebbe I'll try an ordinary all-purpose largish kitchen plastic bag.
RonriiUrufu
@zichi: at your age oxygen sat at over 85% is considered okay, please don't worry. Individual levels of oxygen utilization may vary, someone who has lived in a mountainous region may have an oxygen saturation deemed critical for other persons. Good luck! :)
TorafusuTorasan
Make sure you get your 3 yens worth playing with plastic bags. I hear you can wear them in public to show up the ordinary mask wearers. Opaque type needs eye holes.
(^。^)y-~
stormcrow
Just don't forget!
Made in China
The Avenger
Orange County officials declare local health emergency over coronavirus
https://www.foxla.com/news/orange-county-officials-declare-local-health-emergency-over-coronavirus
The Avenger
Drugmaker Moderna Delivers First Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine for Human Testing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-first-coronavirus-vaccine-for-human-testing-11582579099
lostrune2
The stats so far from the coronavirus:
It's more contagious than the regular flu. Also, the virus could remain active on a surface for several more hours than the regular flu
The mortality rate for a regular flu is about 0.1% vs. the mortality rate for the coronavirus is about 2.3%
In addition from the coronavirus, about 15% suffer severe symptoms, while the rest (82%) suffer mild symptoms
Thus, compared to your regular flu, the coronavirus is a super-flu
BTW, the head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus got the flu ironically evident on live TV while he was speaking and downplaying it:
"Iran says official who played down coronavirus fears is infected"
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/250220201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-VuRK8L1kg
mmwkdw
@zichi - although its easy to say, the more you fret over those multiple medical matters the more things will become worse for you. Focus upon the one that's key, then move onto the next, don't loose sight of hope!
Wolfpack
I don’t think it is wise to trust scientists just because they are scientists. They are also human beings and prone to the same human failings as anyone else. I would wager that most scientists are well meaning. You can also count on the fact that there are also some that are self serving and corrupt. These days many scientists are blending science with politics - for these people it’s trust but verify.