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Posted on 3/12/20 at 11:14 pm to USMEagles
From that same Wiki article:
"In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as some cases of the common cold"
Try again, Einstein.
"In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as some cases of the common cold"
Try again, Einstein.
Posted on 3/12/20 at 11:16 pm to USMEagles
Yes, coronavirus is a broad grouping for a family of extremely tiny viruses. They have been around for a long time and have many different types and strands. That doesn't change the fact that the current COVID-19 is much much closer to SARS and MERS level of intensity than a common cold coronavirus. Also doesnt change the fact that influenza is in no way, shape, or form related to coronavirus other than some symptoms
You think all coronavirus strands are the same? What about influenza strands? Explain to me how Pandemic (Spanish) Flu is so much more devastating than season flu? They are both "influenza" therefore they are both common cold symptoms with some soreness and weakness, right? They're both spread the exact same ways and affect the same age demographics severely?
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"In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as some cases of the common cold"
Try again, Einstein.
You think all coronavirus strands are the same? What about influenza strands? Explain to me how Pandemic (Spanish) Flu is so much more devastating than season flu? They are both "influenza" therefore they are both common cold symptoms with some soreness and weakness, right? They're both spread the exact same ways and affect the same age demographics severely?
This post was edited on 3/12/20 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 3/12/20 at 11:29 pm to LilWezyAna
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the current COVID-19 is much much closer to SARS and MERS
And what happened with those viruses? A lot of panic and media hype and not much else.
SARS is the perfect example of what we're dealing with here, and how it should be dealt with: it should mostly be ignored, and then reacted to.
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You think all coronavirus strands are the same?
I think there is a history dealing with viruses and its precedents should mostly be respected.
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Explain to me how Pandemic (Spanish) Flu is so much more devastating than season flu? They are both "influenza" therefore they are both common cold symptoms with some soreness and weakness, right? They're both spread the exact same ways and affect the same age demographics severely?
Muh experts... they kind of suck.
What is the end game here? The economy will contract 20%... but hey, at least we're all alive? Do you really want to live through a depression, over something that wasn't even identifiable when the Great Depression happened?
Are you sure you don't have some ulterior motive here, involving (IDK) not wanting to get off your arse and go to work tomorrow?
Posted on 3/12/20 at 11:59 pm to USMEagles
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Are you sure you don't have some ulterior motive here, involving (IDK) not wanting to get off your arse and go to work tomorrow?
At no point did I say I agreed with the precautionary measures taken. I was just pointing out how just about every "fact" you pulled was either irrelevant to your arguments or just flat out wrong.
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SARS is the perfect example of what we're dealing with here, and how it should be dealt with: it should mostly be ignored, and then reacted to.
You have no clue what we're dealing with, it is literally a new virus. NO one quite knows the entirity of what we're dealing with
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I think there is a history dealing with viruses and its precedents should mostly be respected.
Your broad usage of "history dealing with viruses" is just words that mean nothing. All viruses are different and treated differently. Some kill 90-100% of people, some have never killed a single person infected. Yea we should definitely deal with them the same way
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Muh experts... they kind of suck
Ah, now the end, where a random internet forum poster insinuates that experts on the subject know less than him, the uninformed citizen who has no background with infectious disease. The same very poster that has only cited a Wikipedia page related to the family of coronavirus as a whole for all of his knowledge.
Again, I don't agree with how everything is being handled, but I'm not going to sit here and act like I know more than the majority of infectious disease specialists
This post was edited on 3/13/20 at 12:01 am
Posted on 3/13/20 at 12:03 am to LilWezyAna
Shouldn’t we be testing on bats?
Posted on 3/13/20 at 12:34 am to phunkatron
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Please explain in detail, otherwise I take that you are full of shite. Chimps arent humans, and there are plenty of infected humans to collect data on in a safe environment.
When animals die (or don't die), they can completely disassemble them (vivisection for the more literate crowd) and test every single part of the animal to try to figure out how the virus moves through the body, what organs it congregates in, what changes in the body it causes, etc.
It's hard to get permission from the family to do that with Pop Pop's rotting corpse.
It's a damned shame that those chimps are used when there are far less intelligent beings running around this place.
Also, the real answer is that the Tulane center is more a BSL 3 lab and a lot of what they do with things like Wuhan Virus never gets out of petri dishes and test tubes inside a fume hood. They test there because they have the facilities to test while keeping it contained and keeping the working scientists as safe as possible.
This post was edited on 3/13/20 at 12:42 am
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