Coronavirus Facts and Fiction - January - May 2020 [Closed]

I ordered more from Ebay the 1st day news came out
The seller canceled my order , I am guessing they are saving them to price gouge now. Prices have gone from 20 US dollars for 300 pcs
to over 300 US in some places.
Fu*king People

Also over in China people are wearing latex gloves , double masks, and outer layer of clothing that can be washed as soon as they return home.
Just a Cold my Ass.

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I live in a building that is predominantly Asian and everyone is very paranoid. Double wiping down of exercise machines, mask wearing, tissue to press the elevator button kind of thing.

It’s crazy.

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What Country? If I may…

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I’m in Canada. Toronto. Even I am now washing my hands after going out in public, as a reflex. People are really afraid.

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China now admits to 8100 cases! (bigger than SARS and in way less time)
I got lucky and bought a case of disposable nitrile gloves…FOR TRIMMING! LOL

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We have at least 1 confirmed case in the state I am in and I don’t trust that it hasn’t spread out more due to how it can spread before symptoms are even shown in the carrier. Thankfully I live in a small town and it isn’t that hard to avoid people if this gets out of hand. Definitely keeping my hands clean and trying to avoid touching places that would be the bug breeding zone. Crazy about the theories about the level 4 lab nearby the Wuhan wet market where they say this originated. I don’t trust the Chinese government, or any government really, to give us the truth.

Wishing the best for people who are in the inflicted areas and hoping that their government can deal with this situation and not let it wipe out a lot of weak and older people with compromised immune system responses.

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Masks supposedly won’t help protect you from this virus.

Why a mask won't protect you from the Wuhan coronavirus | National Post

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I have two different couples that I know that are either in the air right now or traveling in the next couple weeks and I personally would be a little concerned.

Two of them are going to the Philippines and two are going to Vietnam / Thailand / Cambodia…

Stay safe everyone! Better safe than sorry.

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Seems the masks will be more helpful if being worn by the infected to help minimize them coughing out the droplets which can contain the virus into the air, or coughing onto their hands and then spreading it by touching surfaces… But since the masks don’t provide an air tight seal they won’t stop everything… I was reading somewhere that N95 masks may not even filter particulate small enough to stop the virus as well… not sure if it was truth.

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U.S. reports 1st case of person-to-person spread of new virus
The Associated Press
MIKE STOBBE
Jan 30th 2020 12:53PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials Thursday reported the first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the new virus from China.

The individual is married to the Chicago woman who got sick from the virus after she returned from a trip to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. There have been cases reported of the infectious virus spreading to others in a household or workplace in China and elsewhere.

The new case is the sixth reported in the United States. The other five were travelers who developed the illness after returning to the U.S. from China. The latest patient had not been in China.

The Chicago woman, who is in her 60s, returned from central China on Jan. 13, then last week went to a hospital with symptoms and was diagnosed with the viral illness. She and her husband are hospitalized.

Experts have said they expected additional cases, and that at least some limited spread of the disease in the United States was likely. Health officials think the new virus spreads mainly from droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes, similar to how the flu spreads.

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There is so much contradictory bullshit in that article that I couldn’t even finish reading it. Fucking nonsense.

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Haha 100% did you stop reading when it said mask do nothing for those who aren’t sick but are good for those who are sick hahahahaha

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Makes one wonder how long will it be before all shipments from China will be halted or quarantined indefinitely ?
I bet a certain company has a Virus Sale real soon…

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Maybe not…but they sure can’t hurt.

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No, I got past that part and then lost it when the next section talked about how health care workers wear masks as a part of their overall protective gear when working with infected people.

So, they work for health care workers, but not for you and I?

There’s more contradictory stuff than that. At no point do they explain why masks worked for SARS but won’t work for this one. Absolute and utter nonsense.

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Yikes!!!

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I call 1st dibs on your seeds! LMAO

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I don’t understand what you mean.

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Just joking…It was really about those that think this is a hoax.