If guns were a virus the numbers would be much higher and still nobody would give a fuck.
I keep seeing articles like that which downplay 2019-nCoV (which has already infected 5 people in the US) while admitting how scary SARS (infected 8 people in the US) and MERS (infected 2 people in the US) was globally.
Had a meeting with my Chinese customer yesterday at their office, they're all sitting there with their masks on. Seems like a bit of an over reaction to me, there's just one confirmed case in a city of 3 million people.
Thankfully I'm a supremely fit and healthy human specimen and my liver can jump tall buildings, so if I get it I'll probably just need a day off from the gym. But I can be selective about which fuckers I give it to. People who have pissed me off recently, that's who needs the masks.
Had a meeting with my Chinese customer yesterday at their office, they're all sitting there with their masks on.
i've got a token for 2 free drinks at the local dive bar and doordash getting me some chinese food i think i'll be just fine
it depends.
if you are a young, healthy, working adult, cornovirus isn't worse than a bad burrito or some bad shrimp. if you are a boomer, i hope you have a will ready.
MitchDubai said:Had a meeting with my Chinese
I am a long time (30+ years) member to Kaiser. Every year, they push - no differently, mind you - their flu-shots like a dope dealer does with their drugs. And in your article, what do they recommend 3 times? Flu shots and the author spreads them out in the article masterfully.
So what do they want to do to get people to buy more flu shots?Fewer than half of adults got a flu shot last season, according to the CDC. Even among children, who can be especially vulnerable to respiratory illnesses, only 62% received the vaccine.
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Some people may worry less about the flu because there’s a vaccine, whose protection has ranged from 19% to 60% in recent years. Simply having the choice about whether to receive a flu shot can give people an illusion of control, Schaffner said.
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Hotez, who is working to develop vaccines against neglected diseases, said he worries about unvaccinated children. Most kids who die from the flu haven’t been immunized against it, he said. And many were previously healthy.
Scare them into getting them. Will be interesting to see if big-pharma begins to name standard strains of the flu bug in the coming years.If Americans aren’t afraid of the flu, perhaps that’s because they are inured to yearly warnings. For them, the flu is old news. Yet viruses named after foreign places — such as Ebola, Zika and Wuhan — inspire terror.
“Familiarity breeds indifference,” Schaffner said. “Because it’s new, it’s mysterious and comes from an exotic place, the coronavirus creates anxiety.”
Some doctors joke that the flu needs to be rebranded.
“We should rename influenza; call it XZ-47 virus, or something scarier,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
LAS VEGAS — Southern Nevada Health District officials have received a report of a potential case of the 2019 novel coronavirus in a Clark County resident.
The patient is in isolation at a hospital in Clark County. The patient will be monitored and under medical supervision while testing is conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Clark County.
“The Health District has been monitoring this situation and working closely with our health care partners to ensure they were prepared for potential patients,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, acting chief health officer for the Southern Nevada Health District. “Our hospitals are very experienced in isolating and taking care of ill patients, and we will continue to coordinate the testing process and communications with our partners at the state and the CDC.”
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corona is literally mexican piss
there is no such thing as a cykotine storm in the bodies of the young. you watch to much resident evil.
i get where you're coming from, but corona tastes like literal skunk piss.