The hoarding of supplies doesn't just happen to supermarkets in China, Hong Kong and possibly Macau, this also happened in Singaporean supermarkets from last Friday to Sunday and I don't know what caused these people to panic like that when this is supposed to happen in countries hit worse by the "Novel" coronavirus.
The hoarding of supplies doesn't just happen to supermarkets in China, Hong Kong and possibly Macau, this also happened in Singaporean supermarkets from last Friday to Sunday and I don't know what caused these people to panic like that when this is supposed to happen in countries hit worse by the "Novel" coronavirus.
Because China closed down many of the factories, and guess who imports products from those factories? Combined with the fact said virus is seemingly spreading very fast (especially when taxi drivers are among those infected, who knows how many people they interacted with before the discovery). People started panic and stockpiling supplies in case the containment failed and no more supplies are shipped.
Aside from a higher death toll and a long asymptomatic incubation period, I've read it has an increased likelihood of long term health problems. That is it will cripple you to one extend or another, while also taking years off of your life. Maybe an increased vulnerability to other respiratory problems down the line.
Imagine going your whole life without smoking, only to get hit by this.
Aside from a higher death toll and a long asymptomatic incubation period, I've read it has an increased likelihood of long term health problems. That is it will cripple you to one extend or another, while also taking years off of your life. Maybe an increased vulnerability to other respiratory problems down the line.
Imagine going your whole life without smoking, only to get hit by this.
I think the paranoia is getting out of hand. From figures and descriptions I've read, the infectiousness and lethality is a little milder than the flu. But since the flu is old and busted while this is the new hotness, it grabs all the headlines.
Flu kills half a million people a year, yet there are tons of people who don't bother getting vaccinated.
Somewhere under 5% lethality for the new virus apparently, whereas SARS was like 10% and ebola about 40%? Still the issue seems to be that it was able to spread a lot more.
I think the paranoia is getting out of hand. From figures and descriptions I've read, the infectiousness and lethality is a little milder than the flu. But since the flu is old and busted while this is the new hotness, it grabs all the headlines.
Flu kills half a million people a year, yet there are tons of people who don't bother getting vaccinated.
China has put nearly 400 million people on lockdown, and crippled their industrial production. You don't do that for a flu. What China is doing speaks volumes more than what they are saying. As for lethality, the flu tends to kill people who are elderly, or otherwise unhealthy to begin with. This is not closely related to the flu, so basically nobody has any protection against it. 2019-nCov is taking out healthy people in their 20s. That's a big goddamn problem.
Developing a vaccine will be difficult, as coronaviruses are known for mutating quickly. The annual flu vaccine is pretty much just health organizations throwing darts at a list of flu samples from last year, and making a vaccine for the first three they picked. Its an educated guess, but its still a guess. They then mix them together in one batch, then jab millions of people, and hope for the best. Some years we get lucky, other years not so much.
