2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

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  1. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    Hand sanitizer, not shaking hands is all going to be pretty useless

    We are all going to have to face getting infected, dealing with it, building up immunity
     
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  2. tumbling.dice

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    Walmart has announced it will no longer be open 24 hours a day. I'm curious to see if there will be long lines of panicky people waiting for them to open each day.

    West Kentucky Star - News
     
  3. Nebulous

    Nebulous Carpe diem

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    A couple of our local Walmart’s close at 11pm and have done that for years.
     
  4. Napoleon Hill’s Spectre

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    Arrivals to Australia must self-isolate for 14 days.
    LMAO. Just close the ports and airports. Show some leadership and do it.
     
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  5. Nebulous

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    What does that mean?
     
  6. Napoleon Hill’s Spectre

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    How is it going to be policed?
    How are we going to ensure people stay in their hotel / Airbnb etc and self-isolate? Most ridiculous thing ever.
     
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  7. Nebulous

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    They won’t, I wouldn’t if I visited there. I don’t have that many days to waste
     
  8. Vanilla Gorilla

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    "The present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the third documented spillover of an animal coronavirus to humans in only two decades that has resulted in a major epidemic. The Coronaviridae Study Group (CSG) of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for developing the classification of viruses and taxon nomenclature of the family Coronaviridae, has assessed the placement of the human pathogen, tentatively named 2019-nCoV, within the Coronaviridae. Based on phylogeny, taxonomy and established practice, the CSG recognizes this virus as forming a sister clade to the prototype human and bat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoVs) of the species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus, and designates it as SARS-CoV-2. "


    The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2



    So Covid 19 is just a strain of SARS

    Was officially designated the name SARS-CoV-2 a month ago , just that the media haven't been reporting that very well
     
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  9. Beach Ball Lady Balls

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    I received a recording on Friday the 13th from the Canadian government, A recording in French and English telling me to not travel, etc...

    any other Canadians receive such a call, or am I a target?
     
  10. Nebulous

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  11. Napoleon Hill’s Spectre

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    Precisely. People won’t. That’s why the border must be shut.
     
  12. Nebulous

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    For how long?
     
  13. Napoleon Hill’s Spectre

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    30 days and then review.
    Most likely another 30 days after that though.
     
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  14. Vanilla Gorilla

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    There are no experts on this thing, in the sense no one is sure 100% what the right thing to do is.

    Say it spreads across Europe and Asia, which it already has. It spreads around, everybody there develops immunity. Countries like Aus and NZ try to keep it out, that doesn't happen here

    Then we are just delaying the inevitable

    Without calling in the army, just how long are we going to make people self isolate

    We are never going to be sure if it's wiped out until most people in the world have been tested, and at the moment, that would require 5 billion test kits

    Closing schools is the wrong thing to do

    And I don't think it's possible shutting down airports for too long without it eventually causing riots and each government having to bail out every airline and every associated industry

    No one seems to have worked out how much this is all going to cost and what that actually means in 6 months time
     
  15. Irminsul

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    There's this one toy of mine, tastes much better with a rubber on it. ;)
     
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  16. GLENGLEN

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    I Never Thought I'd See The Day When You Would "Jump Ranks"....AND..

    Then...Go Into "Bat For The Other Team"..... :screamcat:........Next Stop..... "Hillsong"...??.... :eek:



    Cheers Glen.
     
  17. Nebulous

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    Flavored condoms?
     
  18. Vanilla Gorilla

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    ???

    If you mean lib vs labour, I've never voted labour in my life
     
  19. GLENGLEN

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    TOO MUCH INFORMATION Young Lady...... :p



    Cheers Glen.
     
  20. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Umm yeah, I don't know why I asked actually ;)
     
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