Novel CoronaVirus (COVID-19) Updates & Discussion

[Forum Reader]

Honestly.... it still looks like a relatively low death rate so far.....

Even at 5% death rate, if it infects the entire world that will be about 400 million dead, and it seems to spread super easily. Spreading easier than any disease I've even seen. Also who knows the long term affects. Could also affect you for life even if you recover.

 

[rietrot]

The day Trump goes into lockdown is when you should start panicking.

For now. Take a deep breath and enjoy the freshly polluted air.

He already has a bunker full of supplies, so they'll just ask him to step into it at the last minute.

If you already have the bunker and the supplies, you could probably do the same.

 

[Alan]

A memo seen by The Sun last night states that the “reasonable worst case” involves “up to 80 per cent of the population being infected”.

The document by the National Security Communications Team warns: “The current planning assumption is that 2-3 per cent of symptomatic cases will result in a fatality.”

Around half a million Brits — mostly the elderly or those with pre-existing illnesses — would be killed under this scenario, according to health sources.

The figures are in a “sensitive” government report called “Covid-19 Reasonable Worst Case Scenario”. It predicts infection rates will snowball for two to three months once the bug starts spreading.

Coronavirus could infect 80% of Brits & kill 500,000 in 'worst case scenario'

FOUR in five Brits could become infected by deadly coronavirus — with up to 500,000 killed, according to a doomsday scenario set out in official papers seen by The Sun. Ministers are now considerin…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[OCP]

I'm 50, turning 51 this year.

Was good knowing you guys.

RiP mate

Can we haz your stuffs?

 

[Polymathic]

Being at the mall 3 times this week and all I can see is various ways for people to get infected.

 

[Alan]

I'm 50, turning 51 this year.

Was good knowing you guys.

Human years?

 

[DeeinSouthAfrica]

Let's form the high-age Coronachan club then, shall we?

Only people from 50 years and older may join.

54, overweight, hide behind my computer all day.
Ah dammit, I could cross the road outside and be totalled by an illegal African diving an illegal car with very illegal tyres.
Coronavirus is less scary.

 

[NeonNinja]

Fake news?

 

[Unhappy438]

Fake news?

Almost certainly.

 

[zophas]

Being at the mall 3 times this week and all I can see is various ways for people to get infected.

Yeah, like tellers who lick their fingers before handling your groceries and packaging and giving you your change.

 

[ForceFate]

Celebrities doing it their way. Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Rather a disposable mask. I'm worried about my parents.

 

[chefdude98]

Being at the mall 3 times this week and all I can see is various ways for people to get infected.

Same. I am also afraid of hospitals & airports now.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

RiP mate

Can we haz your stuffs?

Dibs

 

[zophas]

I guess we will also change the way greet each other. No more handshakes, high-fives and fistbumps. Definitely no hugs. Maybe just a Dr Spock kind of Vulcan salute.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

I guess we will also change the way greet each other. No more handshakes, high-fives and fistbumps. Definitely no hugs. Maybe just a Dr Spock kind of Vulcan salute.

What if it's a hot girl?

 

[chefdude98]

What if it's a hot girl?

Well that better be the girl of your dreams cos you can't use your tollie after that.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Well that better be the girl of your dreams cos you can't use your tollie after that.

Take one for the team then lol

 

[gottagoon]

Here are the things that give me a ray of hope with Corona:

I'm 57 with stuffed lungs. Had TB etc. I smoke. Sometimes I have coughing fits. Lots of phlegm I spit into a old small coffee tin and than moer the contents in a toilet and flush it. People are always sneezing and spraying their **** everywhere when the seasons or weather changes.

I don't seeze etc. But inevitably I get some ******* that sprays me or the space with germs. And than I battle.

So, my problem is people spreading germs. BY NOT FOLLOWING SIMPLE HYGIENIC PRINCIPLES. PUT YOUR HAND IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE BEFORE YOU SNEEZE.

Just ****ing do it already.

That's all.

 

[gottagoon]

Also, noone mentioned that people with ****ed lungs or smokers will die first.

Forgot to add that.

 

[LD50]

Don't you mean ruin?

Seems like politicians are doing their utmost to break SA, irrespective of party. They need to put their big girl pants on.

I don't know what I meant