/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11438660
Its going to spread anon. You're not going to see a zombie movie enacted here because, as of yet, we have no reports of the infected rising from the dead and attacking others.
But yeah, it IS going to to spread to pretty much all the world at the current rate. We have no reasons to believe that its quarantinable at this stage given that only china had any luck with that, and that required Fascism that the western world is just too scared to use (You try and lock up a city in new york or california and you'll have every single black in the country screaming that its a racist plot to kill them all).


Our current hopes are that its spread can be slowed long enough for us to develop more effective methods for treating it and preventing pneuomatic death from it: A vaccine is AT LEAST 1-2 years away, so that's not happening in time to prevent this.


The good thing is, the vast majority of people are barely going to be affected more than the flu or a heavy cold, with some even being light cold level. The problem is that its STILL going to kill a large number of those with medical issues and the elderly, and 1-2% is still fucking large (For contrast, the flu kills less than .02% of those infected in the US).


Our biggest fears is that it will either mutate into a more deadly form before we can understand how to treat it, or that death numbers we have so far are unreliable (Iran for example is posting absurdly high death rates compared to china)

>>11438660
Didn't something like 10-20% of ALL HUMANS contract the swine flu during the last pandemic? I'm also seeing conflicting information about the severity. That one WHO report summary (from the situation in China) ended up stating that the vast majority of all positive-tested patients ended up showing symptoms; compared to a normal or swine flu which can have something like 30% asymptomatic progress. Also, swine flu has an incubation period of a few days, whereas covid-19 can be up to two weeks - which will clearly help spreading it.

I'm supposed to have two business flights in the next 3 weeks, California and Europe. I'm doomed, am I not?

>>11438719
oh boy, pray you dont catch the toyota corona

>>11438684

>boomers are getting their comeuppance

>>11438730
b-but the prez boomers voted in told them it was a hoax!
this could honestly be devestating for republicans. a large portion of boomers dying off (and elderly whites are their foundation right now) would drastically lower their voterbase.
It could be bad in the short term as well if their bedrock stays home instead of voting due to fear of dying, while younger voters (Who lean heavily to the left) go out and vote since they're not scared of catching it and dying.

>>11438737

not murican but i wanna see less of my tax dollars going towards parasitical boomers

>>11438745
while I agree here on the whole, i still don't want my parents to die here from disease at a relatively low age (70), especially when they're active and in good health.

>>11438660
>corona virus infects 20 people outside of china and is less dangerous than the common flu
>schizos: We're all gonna die

>>11438753

my dad has kidney disease and wants to kill himself if it progresses further and my mother stole 60 thousand dollars from my step dad, i dont know who she is anymore. my real mother died a long time ago.

>>11438755
20 people

>Try 20'000 people

>>11438755
>schizos
yeah sure you can get away with this strawman for now but it wont age well when you mom dies of corona and you are caught off-guard and unprepared

>>11438660
No, but buy food now before the mandatory 30 day quarantine go in effect for your area.

Also buy tissues because you will be bored.

>>11438761
14 bucks? Fuck me, no wonder America is fat. I eat hipster zoomer food mostly, like a package of hummus and some prime veg would cost me more than that.

>>11438761
>chicken sand
Where tf do they get chicken sand from?

>one degree increase in global temperature
>scream about it for decades
>looming pandemic that shut down china's economy for months
>oh it's nothing don't worry about it
The modern "scientist" never fails to make me laugh.

>>11438660
Since most countries are too much of pussies to enforce actually working counter-measures, yes, it will spread uncontrollably except for maybe in Greenland and Iceland and some other remote places.
People, especially politicians, are fucking idiots. Thank them.

>>11438864
Its because that 1 degree will kill a bunch of other organisms and possibly fuck up the planet more, while killing humans HELPS out ecological sitution.

>>11438660
> I never cared
False flag pol shit.
Yes it will spread, no it won't affect you.
Grow a pair of balls poofter.

>>11438893
>false flag pol shit
go back to plebbit faggot, it is not the case that everything that seems somewhat right wing is a 'false flag' by /pol/

>>11438900
if it kills a family member, then YES it did affect you. and most of us have either grandparents or parents.

>>11438660
If black holes are real, why would this shit matter? Is physics greater than biology or nah?

>>11438660
it's going to spread in america because of the incompetence of your gov and shitty healthcare
china seems to finally be getting on top of it
as far as south korea and italy it is for the most part contained in precise geographical regions, we'll see in the coming days of the numbers start to wane down

>>11438864
the pandemic was a godsend while it lasted. it's sad we're seeing the end of it in fucking shitty chingchongland

>>11438922
lmao based. useless physishits put in their place

>>11438931
Wonder why it hasn't spread to the norks yet. WHY oh god WHY couldn't it hit them instead of south korea?

>>11438684
>1-2% is still fucking large
it's not that high because most people avoid government testing as they are afraid of being quarantined

>>11438753
>while I agree here on the whole, i still don't want my parents to die here from disease at a relatively low age (70), especially when they're active and in good health.
tell them to wear a mask

>>11438942
Those are the numbers from places where testing was virtually mandatory during the spread (China).
Places where there wasn't much testing is much higher (Iran at almost 10%) since the only ones that get counted are the ones with serious symptoms.

>>11438737
the younger generation was always gonna be the death of this country. Rome 2.0 here we come

>>11438940
they call it best korea for a reason

>>11438945
It seems to be primarily be spread by droplets being left on surfaces and then picked up by the hands, not through the air.

A POSITIVE AT CLOSEDS. NOW YES WHAT THEY'LL BE CLOSEDS

>>11438684
It frequently causes testicular, kidney, and lung damage to those it doesnt kill

>>11438755
>20 cases
more like 10 thousand confirmed cases with a huge number of asymptotic carriers

>>11438884
>and possibly fuck up the planet more
>fuck up the planet
Stop doing that. The word you're searching for is "ecosystem".

>>11438745
You mean the ones that actually paid into the the social security system? You neet scrounging bastard.

>>11438764
Kill yourself.

>>11438660
Coronavirus isn't new. 10-15% of colds are caused by the Coronavirus. Then there's a plethora of rarer cold viruses that account for a few %. The rest are Rhinovirus.

We've been dealing with this thing for centuries already. I find it hilarious that they've panicked so many people over the common cold.

And no, we aren't heading towards the apocalypse.

>>11438737

Oh deer that would be aweful if all the boomers died

>>11439030
COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, meaning that it's a type of coronavirus we've never seen before. It appears to be far more contagious than previously known forms of coronavirus. Even if it is less lethal than other types on a per capita basis, it being more contagious will still result in it killing more people in addition to making it more difficult to contain.

FFS JUST LET ME DIE ALREADY.

CHRIST HAVING TO HEAR THESE MORTALS FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW AND WHO DEATH CHOOSES TO VISIT IS DOING MY HEAD IN.

GOVERN: ITSELF GOES TOWARDS THE CLOSURE OF ALL THE SCHOOLS!!!!

>>11439009
Yesss
Bust my balls Corona-chan ^^

GOVERN: "SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITY CLOSED FINE AT HALF MARCH"

MANK 5000 INFERMIERIES IN AREAS MORE AT RISK

>>11439030
but this one is extremely contagious AND asymptomatic. even if it has a low death rate, we still want to keep it contained. think about it like this.. would you want to catch this virus? no, because it fucking sucks, viral pneumonia and high fever and shit. its a big no good bad time that you are spreading to everyone else for two weeks before you even know about it.

>>11438769
from chicken beaches, duh

>>11438884
this

RAYS: "WITH THE STOP AT THE SCHOOLS PARTS THE SANIFICATION"

Is this really like AIDs flu as what /pol/ claims?

Is it true it stays in the body because of RNA insertions and that re-infection could result in sudden death?

Are these things from /pol/ true?

>>11439665
Yes 100%

>>11439665
THE RICERCATORS OSSERVATE THE INFECTION IN DIRECT 3D

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>>11439263
i though the sand witches made the chicken sand

>>11439665
THE MINISTRY STOPS ALSO THE SERIES A: JUMP THREE PARTITS

>>11439684
OMS: " MANK THE DISPOSITIVES MEDICS, RISK FOR THE TOWNS"

>>11439684
CORONAVIRUS, MEDIC AND INFERMIERY OF CREAM IN REANIMATION

>>11439009
damn, corona-chan leaves you breathless...

>>11439684
JOAN COLLINS IRRICONOSCIBLE BEHIND AT THE MASKERIN ANTI-CORONAVIRUS: "I AM PRONT"

"PRONT" WRITES JOAN COLLINS, 86 YEARS IN A SCAT, PUBLICATED ON THE SOCIALS, IN WHICH APPEARS WITH THE VOLT SEMICOPERTED FROM A MASKERIN ANTI CORONAVIRUS, A BERRETT FROM BASEBALL, THE CAPPUC OF THE FELP BLACK TIRATED ON THE TEST AND A TRENCH APPOGIATED ON THE PET WHAT HER COPERS THE COL. SO "BARDATED", WITH THE SOLE EYES GREEN SCOPERTED , THE ATTRIC BRITANNIC IS DAVER IRRICONOSCIBLE.

>>11439017
>with a huge number of asymptotic carriers

The key word being asymptomatic i.e. it doesn't affect them or at most causes a mild cold/illness the likes of which most people experience every year anyway. Pity the elderly and those with comorbidities if anything - those are who the containment measures are there to protect. The vast majority of the population is going to handle it fine if they get it. You seem to ignore the fact most people will get better on their own of those who did contract it and displayed symptoms (who were not elderly or with comorbidities).

>>11439030

There are different strains of Coronavirus some of which have demonstrably shown to be of far more concern than others i.e SARS and MERS. This new one, whilst not as fatal by case-fatality ratio will kill more only because it can spread far more effectively than those other aforementioned ones.

>>11439009
No it doesn't

>>11439791
What i'm worried about is that this may be a permanent thing.
We can't get a vaccine for the common cold due to how quickly it mutates, and its possible that could happen for this one too. and that means basically another flu every year that we can't protect against AND nukes our age expectancy back down to 50s levels.