Pandemic

keepit wrote:
According to CNBC WHO just declared the novel corona virus, covid19, a pandemic.
See my thread called "A bit of good news".

keepit wrote:
According to CNBC WHO just declared the novel corona virus, covid19, a pandemic.
See my thread called "A bit of good news".

HarveyH55 wrote:
Weel, they can call it what ever they want, but essentially, it's just another cold virus. The new cases, are from a greater capacity to run tests. Next couple weeks, it should grow and spread, at biblical proportions. The pale horseman of the apocalypse, Pestilence, hasn't been busy, just more people getting tested. It's been out of China and spreading, maybe as early as Oct. 2019. China waited 4-6 weeks, before actually admitting they had a problem, restricted travel, and locked down cities. Little too late, incubation period is 14 days. Vast majority people who get infected, feel like a mild cold. How many people cancel international travel plans, over a mild cold? Until the media hype, how many people were denied travel, because of a cold?

gfm7175 wrote:
Honestly, the irrational fear surrounding the virus (such as the rush for masks, toilet paper, rushing to the ER for fear of having it, and etc.) is doing much more damage than the virus itself is doing.

keepit wrote:
According to CNBC WHO just declared the novel corona virus, covid19, a pandemic.
See my thread called "A bit of good news".

keepit wrote:
Epidemiologists try to think dynamically, not in a static manner. They think of risk as a risk in the future. Risk now is just talking about today's number illnesses.

keepit wrote:
ITN,
You don't believe the epidemiologists?

Into the Night wrote:

HarveyH55 wrote:
Weel, they can call it what ever they want, but essentially, it's just another cold virus. The new cases, are from a greater capacity to run tests. Next couple weeks, it should grow and spread, at biblical proportions. The pale horseman of the apocalypse, Pestilence, hasn't been busy, just more people getting tested. It's been out of China and spreading, maybe as early as Oct. 2019. China waited 4-6 weeks, before actually admitting they had a problem, restricted travel, and locked down cities. Little too late, incubation period is 14 days. Vast majority people who get infected, feel like a mild cold. How many people cancel international travel plans, over a mild cold? Until the media hype, how many people were denied travel, because of a cold?

It is a flu virus, not a cold virus. Covid 19 is just a variant of the SARS virus that went around before.

HarveyH55 wrote:

Into the Night wrote:

HarveyH55 wrote:
Weel, they can call it what ever they want, but essentially, it's just another cold virus. The new cases, are from a greater capacity to run tests. Next couple weeks, it should grow and spread, at biblical proportions. The pale horseman of the apocalypse, Pestilence, hasn't been busy, just more people getting tested. It's been out of China and spreading, maybe as early as Oct. 2019. China waited 4-6 weeks, before actually admitting they had a problem, restricted travel, and locked down cities. Little too late, incubation period is 14 days. Vast majority people who get infected, feel like a mild cold. How many people cancel international travel plans, over a mild cold? Until the media hype, how many people were denied travel, because of a cold?

It is a flu virus, not a cold virus. Covid 19 is just a variant of the SARS virus that went around before.

It's a respiratory infection, no vomiting, cold virus... But it does bring up an interesting point, the government, the media, both, have avoided classifying it as either. Guess they want that heightened level of panic. Calling it a cold, kind of makes it a non-issue. I haven't heard of any symptoms beyond the respiratory tract, and it should be clearly classified as a cold virus. There are at least two other coronaviruses classified as cold viruses.