re: Best explanation I've heard, difference between regular flu vs CV

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You’re saying this virus now has a 100% infection rate? You must have Proof to back this up, right?

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Now I understand why the TP and hurricane items are gone from stores. Their panic is real however very little of what they are panicking about is.

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It either jumped directly from bats => humans, or from bats => civets/pandolins => humans. Either way, the moral of the story is don't eat fricking weird shite. And don't sell rotting meat of weird shite in open-air markets. Chinese people are disgusting.

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Think of how strong their immune systems are compared to the rest of the world, not including India who has like 3 total cases out of 1.4 billion people

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Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO ( World Health Org.) tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu).

But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

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Novel viruses are only from animals? I assumed they were emerging viruses, like just a new unknown virus but not necessarily from animals. If so, then Nurse, if you're reading this my apologies as I was wrong the other night. Learning stuff everyday.

ETA: We didn't argue about if they were from animals or not, just the severity of a novel virus.

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China implemented extreme measures designed to slow the spread, and that is what's happened. Some people haven't been allowed to go out of their homes for seven weeks now.

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So you think they effectively quarantined every carrier? If not, why is it not spreading “exponentially” elsewhere in China?

Sounds like a good case for heard immunity

Innate immunity has been designed to detect invasion into the body by foreign bodies. RNA+ viruses trigger a strong immune response. Whether a virus originates in an animal or another human is irrelevant.

There is no such thing as having a "stronger" response to a NEW human vs animal virus. Response would be the same to either new virus. However, response to a virus that has been around for decades would be faster and stronger due to immune system memory.

We develop immunity in response to things that should not be. If this wasn't the case, humans would have died out long ago with any new virus or bacteria. As with anything, poor immune response can be the result of many physiological problems or disease states making immunity less efficient or weaker resulting in death.

Yes - out of the meat market in Wuhan came forth an airborne highly contagious virus with tentacles of HIV, SARS and MERS, all rolled into one package.

American College of Cardiology

"Currently there are no experimental or clinical data demonstrating beneficial or adverse outcomes with background use of ACE inhibitors, ARBs or other RAAS antagonists in COVID-19 or among COVID-19 patients with a history of cardiovascular disease treated with such agents. The HFSA, ACC, and AHA recommend continuation of RAAS antagonists for those patients who are currently prescribed such agents for indications for which these agents are known to be beneficial, such as heart failure, hypertension, or ischemic heart disease. In the event patients with cardiovascular disease are diagnosed with COVID-19, individualized treatment decisions should be made according to each patient's hemodynamic status and clinical presentation. Therefore, be advised not to add or remove any RAAS-related treatments, beyond actions based on standard clinical practice."

Never mind