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Wuhan Virus

Are you afraid of the spread of the Wuhan Virus or catching it?

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Drawdown said:
I have only had the real flu once and I was so damn sick it took me months to recover. On the plus side, I was back to high school weight when it was over and didn't so much as catch a cold for a few years after.
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You're either very young, have a strong immune system or haven't been exposed much. You might have caught a version of Epstein Barr, which makes you very ill for weeks to months and potentially damages the liver. I haven't caught a cold/flu for over ten years but I've also been super nuts about hand sanitation. Causes tons of hangnails.

Kreton said:
Far more people catch the seasonal flu but the flu has a very low mortality rate especially if any medical care at all is received. The flu is treatable. In many cases it is preventable. The same cannot be said of Wuhan right now which is why it is news and why it worries people. There is no Wuhan vaccine and there is no treatment known to help cure it. It is the unknown that has people worried. As for the media hype, media puts up what people will click on. People love these virus stories.
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I caught a version of the Bird Flu 12 yrs ago that turned into viral pneumonia, then developed into a secondary bacterial pneumonia. What happens is the upper respiratory system becomes compromised from a coronavirus and becomes susceptible to common pneumonia strains that it would normally fight off. Mine lasted months before the doctor finally prescribed me and mom with Levaquin and Cipro, two of the most powerful antibiotics back then. It's not the initial coronavirus that causes the severe sickness, it's the bodies excessive immune response that creates the fluid build up and real problems.
 
grip said:
I think the Gov is more afraid of the economic impact than human death toll. To the elite, we're just cattle.
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Or worse yet, chattel.
 
Helix said:
I don't want my kid to catch it, so that's my concern. He's in day care, so we are all getting sick regularly.
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Brace yourself - school is worse.
Ignorant parents send their kids to school with all kinds of crap.
We were lucky, overall.
 
grip said:
You're either very young, have a strong immune system or haven't been exposed much. You might have caught a version of Epstein Barr, which makes you very ill for weeks to months and potentially damages the liver. I haven't caught a cold/flu for over ten years but I've also been super nuts about hand sanitation. Causes tons of hangnails.
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No I had the flu. My boss was the typhoid mary who tried to kill us all by showing up to work with it and pneumonia. I was the last of the herd to come down with it and it was extra kind to me.
 
Drawdown said:
No I had the flu. My boss was the typhoid mary who tried to kill us all by showing up to work with it and pneumonia. I was the last of the herd to come down with it and it was extra kind to me.
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I'll tell you the worst feeling sickness, overall, that I've had was the Norovirus strains. These stomach bugs turn you into a vomit/diarrhea factory. For 24 hrs you're wretched with the dry heaves, laying on the cool bathroom floor for fever relief, while hanging onto the toilet. Haven't had one of those for decades and why I won't take a cruise.
 
grip said:
Are you afraid of the spread of the Wuhan Virus or catching it? Or is it all Media driven, doomsday hype?

Currently, it's a supposedly lower death rate than the seasonal flu. My fear is that it mutates, like many historically deadly pandemics.
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I'm not overly concerned. I hope they come out with a virus soon.
 
Kreton said:
Daycare? Resident Evil has fewer strains of things than daycare centers do. Wuhan isn't even top 10.
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I've been sampling the strains for most of the past year. The second stomach bug was my least favorite.
 
It's all changing.

Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say

The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts.

The prospect is daunting. A pandemic — an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents — may well have global consequences, despite the extraordinary travel restrictions and quarantines now imposed by China and other countries, including the United States.

Scientists do not yet know how lethal the new coronavirus is, however, so there is uncertainty about how much damage a pandemic might cause. But there is growing consensus that the pathogen is readily transmitted between humans.

The Wuhan coronavirus is spreading more like influenza, which is highly transmissible, than like its slow-moving viral cousins, SARS and MERS, scientists have found.

“It’s very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

“But will it be catastrophic? I don’t know.”
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Helix said:
I don't want my kid to catch it, so that's my concern. He's in day care, so we are all getting sick regularly.
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In parallel with the typical infections that dogs get when forced to spend time in a kennel, this is popularly known as kennel cough.
 
JacksinPA said:
In parallel with the typical infections that dogs get when forced to spend time in a kennel, this is popularly known as kennel cough.
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My little dog had that as a puppy right after I got her. It scared me a little, but it was straightforward to treat.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Only if it morphs into a "Zombie" virus.

In which case I'll make sure I have my Walking Dead Survival Kit stocked and ready. ;)

Seriously though, I will hold off on major concerns until we know more about it's effects and have warnings and info what to do about it.

Right now it remains a minor concern, but one I am keeping up on.
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There is concern that it is "Virus X" - the long overdue worldwide pandemic they fear. It's long incubation period and that carriers might have no symptoms - plus that it can cross species lines and appears to be evolving to a more lethal form all have created great concern for how fast it is spreading around the world.

Image it hitting the LA, San Francisco, NYC and other street people?

Remember, any number you hear of people infected (if you believe them) is the number of people infected a week or two ago.
 
grip said:
You're either very young, have a strong immune system or haven't been exposed much. You might have caught a version of Epstein Barr, which makes you very ill for weeks to months and potentially damages the liver. I haven't caught a cold/flu for over ten years but I've also been super nuts about hand sanitation. Causes tons of hangnails.



I caught a version of the Bird Flu 12 yrs ago that turned into viral pneumonia, then developed into a secondary bacterial pneumonia. What happens is the upper respiratory system becomes compromised from a coronavirus and becomes susceptible to common pneumonia strains that it would normally fight off. Mine lasted months before the doctor finally prescribed me and mom with Levaquin and Cipro, two of the most powerful antibiotics back then. It's not the initial coronavirus that causes the severe sickness, it's the bodies excessive immune response that creates the fluid build up and real problems.
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I picked up one of those hospital super bugs when I had surgery from the catheter - so the infection my bladder. It almost killed me.

I am highly allergic to Levaquin - but NOTHING else was working and by month 3 it didn't look good for me. I lied to another doctor not mentioning the allergy for a script for Levaquin. I broke the pills into tiny pieces, taking a piece every half hour while taking benadryl to address allergic reaction swelling. It knocked out the infection in 2 days.
 
Cardinal said:
The normal flu is more dangerous, but only insofar as it's everywhere and coronavirus isn't. By that same logic, a flu with a mortality rate of .0147% is infinitely more dangerous than a virus with a mortality rate of 100% but exists on a different planet. But if the coronovirus becomes as ubiquitous as the common flu (and so far I've seen nothing to indicate it won't be) then 2%>.0147%.

For further frame of reference, the mortality rate of the 1918 influenza was 10%-20%, though I suspect that had something to do with medical standards at the time, though I could be wrong.
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I think the percentage of deaths is much lower outside China. I saw something like .7%. Bad bud not 2%. Still its disconcerting.
 
Hari Seldon said:
I think the percentage of deaths is much lower outside China. I saw something like .7%. Bad bud not 2%. Still its disconcerting.
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When I wrote that I had less information and didn’t know to properly calculate a mortality rate. You’re almost certainly right.
 
Helix said:
My little dog had that as a puppy right after I got her. It scared me a little, but it was straightforward to treat.
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If we take in a street rescue, we strictly isolate it until checked out by a vet and it has gone thru the full deworming, de-licing sequence.
 
joko104 said:
If we take in a street rescue, we strictly isolate it until checked out by a vet and it has gone thru the full deworming, de-licing sequence.
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good idea. my wife and i keep everything really current now. i was a little more of the "she seems a little sick, so let's go to the vet" sort of person before. seems like it's a lot better to be proactive, especially now that she's elderly.
 
I can't answer a poll on a fictitious virus which only exists among the racist fraternity. Covid-19 terrifies me as I'm in three high risk groups.
 
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