Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@Gremio108 That does work but boy oh boy does your pee burn on the way out. That said, you don't need to clean the toilet afterwards so win win.

@Gremio108 no Dettol does not work. One of the coronavirus victims tried to down a bottle and it actually sped up the virus and he died within 10 minutes of drinking the Dettol.

@themcnoisy @Gremio108 is this sarcasm or did some idiot actually try this lmao

@DonJorginho sorry Don that was a joke.

Dettol have been involved in an online Conspiracy theory as the label states it kills coronavirus, before the coronavirus even happened! Look it up and go down the rabbit hole.

https://fullfact.org/online/dettol-coronavirus/

@themcnoisy jesus this is a deep hole

@themcnoisy So Dettol doesn't kill it? Damn, I've just ordered 5,000 bottles as well

I survived bird flu and I will survive this

Can we get back on the subject of the zombie apocalypse? That was more interesting than anything happening in real life.

Destroying organic material is never a problem bleach will do it an autoclave will do it. The problem with ingesting poisons is that they will kill you as well as a virus.

I'll admit that I'm absolutely terrified.

Apparently Tencent (who is tracking the official numbers for some reason) had the numbers at about 24,000 infected/400 dead a few days ago, but the numbers briefly jumped to about 157,000 infected/24,000 dead for a few moments before being corrected.

Supposedly it's the third time their tracker did that, and some people are beginning to speculate that those are the real numbers, and that the Chinese government is hiding it (if correct, the mortality rate would be much higher than the 2-3% currently reported, closer to 15-16%).

Granted, I understand there are lots of conspiracy theorists & alarmists out there, so I'm trying to keep a level head, but I get nervous whenever I see an article on a place like Yahoo showing that they've locked down Wuhan (and Beijing, as per an article I saw today) to the point of being ghost towns, and you can imagine why some would be skeptical that they would do that for a disease with a 97-98% survival rate.

@RR529 Given that the exact infected number became the death toll during that jump, it's more likely a formatting glitch when somebody's updating parameters or inputting new data.

And that's kinda the blessing and curse of all this modern technology. Humans get things wrong, but now we have humans using software and hardware which itself isn't perfect either, and using it in an ever-developing crisis. Mistakes are gonna be made. Errors are gonna happen. The problem is that, with such a high-profile international situation, you then have the conspiracy theorists and "there's no news like bad news" media jumping on every tiny detail and making it a headline.

Chinese containment procedures are beyond strict, perhaps even moreso than any others we've seen deployed before. When viewed from another culture, their methods may seem dispassionate to the point of cruel, but this is an authoritarian state we're looking at here (one still shrouded in secrecy, and determined to protect its image at all costs).

If this virus really does have a 16% mortality rate, then you wouldn't see ghost towns. You'd see burning rubble. Except you wouldn't see it at all, because they'd lock it down even tighter.

Take it from somebody who used to do this kinda thing for a living; please don't be terrified. Just be sensible. Practice good personal hygiene, keep yourself as healthy as possible and listen to the advice of your local medical professionals (if they're putting out any).

@RogerRoger, while I do agree it was probably a glitch, the real infection number and the glitched death total weren't exactly the same (just in the same ballpark).

I just hope they're able to slow it well enough until a vaccine is completed, or at least until they learn it well enough to put in place more effective treatments.

@RR529 In general, the sensationalized news items the media likes to scare people with are usually much less of a threat than far more mundane realities. Considering the 30,000+ people killed by the flu in 2018 - 2019 in the United States, for example, I'd say you're far more likely to perish from something like that. Do you drive, or get driven places? Because tens of thousands more people die in vehicle accidents each year in the U.S. than die of the flu. How's your heart health? Because heart disease slays roughly 647,000 people in the U.S. every year, and heart attack victims have about a 14% mortality rate.

Rape isn't uncommon, but it's much more likely to be someone a person knows and trusts than a random stranger. You're far more likely to be targeted by home-grown nuts than Islamic radicals (although the possibility of being killed in a mass shooting or terror attack is also exceedingly slim; and I say that as someone who was very nearly deeply affected by the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting).

Yet I don't see a ton of people fretting about the possibility of white supremacist terror attacks, heart disease, or riding in cars in my day to day life.

Rest easy. While the world has devised millions of devious ways to rob you of your life, unless you've traveled to China recently, it's really unlikely to be the coronavirus.

@Ralizah Was that supposed to make @RR529 feel better??

As for a vaccine, even if it is produced at an unprecedented speed, it could still be 6 months or so. And as a virus, it could mutate enough to render it fairly useless anyway. The normal flu vaccine is just a best guess of which strains are likely to be the most prevalent that year so a different strain coming to the fore or a mutation can make it a bit pointless (but still important for the groups it is aimed at).

Indeed, the fear of zombie attacks is high. That doesn't mean a zombie attack is going to happen. But, it's right to be fearful of a zombie attack because...zombies are bloody scary. More scary than crossing a road.

So by all means be more fearful of Coronavirus killing you than a heart attack, even if it's less likely

It's time to panic folks. The Corona virus might delay production of the next gen consoles. That is real life hardship all rolled up in a ball for you.

@JohnnyShoulder Now that is something to panic about.

@Th3solution Would this be the first time a next gen console has been delayed? 🤔

@JohnnyShoulder I seem to remember the PlayStation 3 and N64 being delayed.

@JohnnyShoulder I don’t know, but perhaps this is why Sony is keeping its cards so close to the chest.