News Coronavirus Thread

[Snake_Baker]

Interesting paper from 2007

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection

SUMMARY Before the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, only 12 other animal or human coronaviruses were known. The discovery of this virus was soon followed by the discovery of the civet and bat SARS-CoV and the human coronaviruses NL63 and HKU1...

cmr.asm.org

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I made a statement in the other thread that this problem is so big, the AFL will have to prop up all but Rich, Coll, WC and Adelaide and Geelong.

Who are all the sides which are given the most preferential treatment.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

 

[CURVE]

If the AFL is being postponed until May 31, why couldn't the AFLW?

Pretty weak decision by the Commission, they f**ked up by not having a Grand Final this weekend and now they have shafted the female players of the remaining teams.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Just had a relative who works part-time at a bottle shop get called into work because they're getting bombarded with people panic-buying alcohol now.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Just had a relative who works part-time at a bottle shop get called into work because they're getting bombarded with people panic-buying alcohol now.

‘Oh my god, we need to buy liquor because we won’t be able to now!!!’

‘But you don’t drink...’

‘Yeah, but we won’t be able to buy it, so I have to go and get it’

 

[Royal Flush]

Shit just got real.
Watched Albo and Bowen give their meaningless address.
Then watched Gil. Good job Gil, hit us hard where it matters, in our hearts.


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[CURVE]

It still feels like total overkill to me, there have been over 16,000 reported cases on Influenza so far this year and it's not even Flu season.

The mortality rate from the flu is generally around 0.4-0.8% (higher in some years) which is higher than the mortality rate for Corona in Australia.


Why aren't we getting into a panic over these numbers?

 

[Hojuman]

$3,000,000,000,000 in Aus. superannuation savings might come in handy

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

It still feels like total overkill to me, there have been over 16,000 reported cases on Influenza so far this year and it's not even Flu season, yet we aren't getting into a panic over it. The mortality rate from the flu is generally around 0.4-0.8% (higher in some years) which is higher than the mortality rate for Corona in Australia.
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Does seem a little over the top.

 

[North11]

If the AFL is being postponed until May 31, why couldn't the AFLW?

Pretty weak decision by the Commission, they f**ked up by not having a Grand Final this weekend and now they have shafted the female players of the remaining teams.

Because it was gonna be north v Fremantle.

they want Melbourne and Carlton to get into finals because they are the face of the aflw and without Tayla harris complaining it is not aflw at all.

 

[Billy Not Really]

This is frankly getting ridiculous. I hope I was hearing incorrectly when I heard something about if people in W.A. aren't going to abide by social distancing they get quarantined off to some tourist island that's been shut down?

Everything I'm hearing on the news just sounds bizarre.

 

[Cyber_punk]

F$%^ China and it's wet market practices

 

[amaz199]

It is absolutely-positively mind-boggling that the shops were empty today. Most of the produce is Australian grown or made, people were rushing everywhere.

The reaction is completely unnecessary. Borderline nonsensical.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

F$%^ China and it's wet market practices

This thing will expose shit cultural and governmental practices all over the world.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

It is absolutely-positively mind-boggling that the shops were empty today. Most of the produce is Australian grown or made, people were rushing everywhere.

The reaction is completely unnecessary. Borderline nonsensical.

People (as a group) are stupid.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Meanwhile the score review system has been perfect all weekend.

Maybe we'll have to wait for an Ebola outbreak for some consistency on HTB

 

[7577969923]

It still feels like total overkill to me, there have been over 16,000 reported cases on Influenza so far this year and it's not even Flu season, yet we aren't getting into a panic over it. The mortality rate from the flu is generally around 0.4-0.8% (higher in some years) which is higher than the mortality rate for Corona in Australia.
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Your mortality rate for the flu is too high. In August 2019 there had been 217k diagnosed with flu for the year and 430 deaths. That's 0.2% versus a best-case estimate for Covid 19 of 0.7% based on the South Korean numbers. So based on equal infections there would be approximately 1,500 deaths if we were to replicate South Korea.
It is far too early to tell what the mortality rate in Australia will be. Hopefully, we are at the right end of the scale.

It does feel like they have continually ramped things up to the next level without waiting to see what impact the last changes they made had. I assume they are receiving advice from the experts about what is to come that has the Government extremely worried.

 

[Billy Not Really]

assume they are receiving advice from the experts about what is to come that has the Government extremely worried.

Academics are always going to give the worst case scenario because they're deadpan about it.

Government will react thinking it'll be true 100% of the time. I don't even think we've waited long enough to see the effects of what we were doing for the last week, and how it would've impacted us in the following week, let alone a month.

 

[sruss]

Pretty real time for us all.

If anyone here needs any sort of help OR knows of any good ways for me to give back to anyone that’s in a particularly vulnerable position, please hit me up.

Stay safe everyone, can’t wait till this is behind us all.

 

[7577969923]

Academics are always going to give the worst case scenario because they're deadpan about it.

Government will react thinking it'll be true 100% of the time. I don't even think we've waited long enough to see the effects of what we were doing for the last week, and how it would've impacted us in the following week, let alone a month.

This article I found quite informative. It is an interview with a hugely respected epidemiologist called Larry Brilliant who was part of the team that eradicated smallpox from the plant. There is one sentence in the article that causes me to pause. When asked if it is the worst outbreak he has ever seen his response is:

"It's the most dangerous pandemic in our lifetime."

The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming

Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.

www.wired.com

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

We'll all get through this, and will **** the corpse of this campaigner of a virus.

And...we're 1-0.

 

[Gasometer]

Just had a relative who works part-time at a bottle shop get called into work because they're getting bombarded with people panic-buying alcohol now.

I came here to ask the same question

 

[Billy Not Really]

This article I found quite informative. It is an interview with a hugely respected epidemiologist called Larry Brilliant who was part of the team that eradicated smallpox from the plant. There is one sentence in the article that causes me to pause. When asked if it is the worst outbreak he has ever seen his response is:

"It's the most dangerous pandemic in our lifetime."

The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming

Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.

www.wired.com

Case in point.

It's a numbers game, dangerous in the sense of how easy it is to get it and no vaccine but the data is all over the place depending on who you're reading.

This article here is the best one I've read on the subject overall.