2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

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Xi Jinping signals more aggressive response to epidemic.


Convening a second special meeting of the Communist Party’s top political body on Monday, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, signaled a more assertive strategy
for dealing with the coronavirus epidemic after days of seeming to retreat from center stage.


Mr. Xi dispatched the country’s No. 2 leader, Premier Li Keqiang, to Wuhan more than a week ago, when the death toll stood at 106. By Tuesday, the toll in China was more than 420 deaths,
and the government reported 20,438 confirmed cases — roughly 15,000 more than during the SARS outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.(WHO)

 

What book was that? I enjoyed reading Stephen King's The Stand. I wish it hadn't gotten into all that supernatural stuff though, I just thought it was interesting how human society came to a complete halt.

 

Great book I read 'The Stand' back in the late 1980s

 

Station Eleven
After I made that post I had to look back at my Amazon purchases to find the title.. Forgotten the author again though.

 

You should try read another book

 

Should be "try to read" as in "You should try to read another book

or "reading" as in "You should try reading another book"

 

Who's Going To Be The First To Call "Ty" A "Pedantic" Pain In The Butt....????....

Hint......It Certainly Won't Be Me......



Cheers Glen.

 

It's not correct anyway, read is a verb in that instance, you don't need a connecting conjunction

You should try swim over there
You should try to swim over there

Two different meanings

 

Ya fucked up and you know it...

 

Ok, theres definately something weird going on

We are up to 24,000 cases, 492 deaths

But only 2 of those outside China, 1 if you count Hong Kong as china

 

The good news is the mortality rate is only 2.1%, the bad news if everyone in China came down with the Coronavirus the death toll would amount to over 15.6 Millions

 

Yeah, thanks for that

Spread pattern is certainly not making sense


If we all remember the zika microcephaly thing in Brazil in 2015. They still haven't worked out exactly why there were so many microcephaly cases in Northern Brazil. But factors that strongly correlated are the rate of zika infection itself and co-factors like a horse intestinal virus contaminating the water supply

https://www.healio.com/pediatrics/e...xplains-microcephaly-rate-in-northeast-brazil

I'd say in Wuhan, there is definately some co-factor going on making the virus that much more virulent in that place at that particular time

 

Fascinating

 

The facial hair is working for you

 

Out for lunch now in the middle of the city

We still got every third person in Sydney wearing a face mask, even though we don't have a single case in the whole state (2 that had it were released last week)

People eh?

 

Maybe it's just the excuse ugly people have been waiting for

 

Ha!

Sounds more like a joke I would say

HF is rubbing off on you

 

Same ratio in downtown Boston but it's mostly asians that are wearing masks.

 

Update 2/6/20

China reports 73 people died on Wednesday, the highest since the coronavirus outbreak began late last year.

The death toll from the outbreak rose to 563 on Wednesday - recording another record daily increase in fatalities - as the government rushed to build new hospitals
and other countries moved to evacuate citizens and warned against all travel to China.

Most of the deaths were in Hubei, the province surrounding Wuhan, but there were three deaths elsewhere - in Tianjin and Heilongjiang in the northeast and Guizhou in the southwest.