Current Events > Are you worried about the corona virus?

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No, we had many pandemics over the years.

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I've got a vacation planned to Japan for early April that I've been looking forward to taking for nearly a decade and everything has been booked for months, so yea... I'm worried about the corona virus.

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Nah, not particularly

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Maybe a little bit that I know people with little kids who would be at risk if they got infected, or for the older people I know. Typically those are the two groups who are most likely to die from these types of epidemics. But not for myself, personally.

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no, i'm not old or already sick, so even in the unlikely event i catch it, it's not going to kill me.

what isn't helping is newspapers spreading hysteria, by calling it a killer virus, despite the percentage of deaths by infected people still being in the single digits, and those are, again, mostly sick or old people.

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no not worried. you can check youtube and look at japanese reactions to coronavirus from an informal reporter named yuta to get an idea of how people are thinking about it.

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Spanish Flu killed 500 million people. Thats way more than some made up coronoa virus from the media.

No more or less worried than I was about the Bird Flu or Swine Flu, so no, not really.

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Yes I am taking it very seriously and am actively preparing for the worst.

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A lil bit. One of the people I hang with recently came down with Nausea. Large coughing fits too. He's been throwing up for a few days now. He probably has a fever of some sort. Not saying it's the new virus but suspicions are high at this kind of time is all lol.

I think it'll lead to a lockdown here in America for some period of time at least. Good amount of us will live though. I don't think it'll lead to some post apocalyptic world like 4chan hypes it up to be.

Apparently it's real bad in Italy and they've been leakin.

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Nothings killed me yet, why should I be afraid of this next thing?

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s0nicfan posted...

I've got a vacation planned to Japan for early April that I've been looking forward to taking for nearly a decade and everything has been booked for months, so yea... I'm worried about the corona virus.

I'm also going to visit family in japan april-may with flights already booked

I'm not too worried about catching it myself I'm more concerned that everything will get too shut down to actually go

TwoDoorPC posted...

the percentage of deaths by infected people still being in the single digits

that's still pretty high though

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I'm not worried about it as much as I'm worried about people who are losing their shit over it.
People rioting because they can't buy useless face masks, and fucking the economy up, is way scarier to me than having the flu for a week.

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s0nicfan posted...

I've got a vacation planned to Japan for early April that I've been looking forward to taking for nearly a decade and everything has been booked for months, so yea... I'm worried about the corona virus.

Same here dude. My wife and I booked a trip to Japan at the end of April for our honeymoon. I've been waiting my entire life to get to visit Japan, but now we're thinking of postponing it til later in the year.

I'm not worried about catching it there, but I also don't want to risk paying $2000 for a trip where everything is closed and I can't really enjoy myself for 2 weeks.

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kirbymuncher posted...

I'm not too worried about catching it myself I'm more concerned that everything will get too shut down to actually go

Yea, that's my concern. On the plus side, I was expecting cherry blossom season the year of the Olympics to be an insane crush of people in some places, so this might actually even things out.

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kirbymuncher posted...

that's still pretty high though

compared to ebola, sars, bird flu, swine flu, etc.? nah.

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Yes I am and I hope we over come this.

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Not so much about the virus itself -- more about the disruption and inconvenience caused by the official and public responses to it: hospital appointments cancelled, health centres closed, panic buying, etc. I'm not saying those responses are wrong, because it does need to be contained, managed, and prepared for; but they could definitely make life difficult.

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Somewhat. I have stage iv colon cancer, and so an infection is likely to be potentially more lethal than for healthy people that get infected. However, I also have medicaid and am treated at one of the best hospitals in the country. That said, it's also a very populated and trafficked hospital, so...

*shrug*

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GregShmedley posted...

So what is your point?

the point is that even if you do get it you are significantly less likely to die than from other viruses from the past. thought that was obvious.

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GregShmedley posted...

There's a bigger picture here other than catching it and whether or not you'll die from it......

no shit sherlock. a more observant user might have worked out from my previous posts how concerned i am about those aspects by my lack of mentioning them in my other posts, but since you seem to be struggling I'll make it simple for you; i'm not concerned about those either.

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Not really. It's usually the old and young who die from these >_>

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no, but if it spread in the US i will be worried about how stupid americans behave

peoples behavior is always worse than the root cause
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TwoDoorPC posted...

compared to ebola, sars, bird flu, swine flu, etc.? nah.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flu-h1n1-pandemic/swine-flu-infected-1-in-5-death-rate-low-study-shows-idUSBRE90O0T720130125

At least one in five people worldwide were infected with swine flu during the first year of the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic, an international research group said on Friday, but the death rate was just 0.02 percent.

ebola and sars are totally different types of diseases so yeah their mortality rate is pretty high (although not as many people actually caught it). bird flu I was pretty surprised how high it was (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 wikipedia lol)

While estimates of case-fatality (CF) rates for past influenza pandemics have ranged from about 0.1% (1957 and 1968 pandemics) to 20% (1918 pandemic); the official World Health Organization estimate for the current outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza to date is around 60%. While the real H5N1 CF rate (what it would be if we had perfect knowledge) could be lower (one study suggests that the real H5N1 CF rate is closer to 1433%)

but it seems it's also pretty rare since it doeese't transmit well between people or something?

I see estimates for the coronavirus at like 2%-5% but I imagine it's too early to really get a good picture of the situation

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NeonOctopus posted...

Not really. It's usually the old and young who die from these >_>

Doesn't anyone have grandparents they care about?!

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TwoDoorPC posted...

no shit sherlock. a more observant user might have worked out from my previous posts how concerned i am about those aspects by my lack of mentioning them in my other posts, but since you seem to be struggling I'll make it simple for you; i'm not concerned about those either.

Ignore him, he's one of the doomsday prepper types who keeps making/posting in the the ongoing threads for the last 2 months. You're not gonna get through lol.

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LostForest posted...

Ignore him, he's one of the doomsday prepper types who keeps making/posting in the the ongoing threads for the last 2 months. You're not gonna get through lol.

i thought something was going on. thanks

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GregShmedley posted...

Amazing how many are being so wilfully ignorant about this.

I watch updates about it during NHK newsline every single morning before I go to work.

I also just choose to go on with my fucking daily life and not participate in the OH GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING circlejerk that people love to spin up every few months. Remember when World War 3 was supposed to happen last year because of Iran? Remember when ebola was going to kill everyone? Remember when North Korea and Donald Trump were going to go create glorious hellfire nuclear war?

There's better, more constructive things to do with your time and attention than to perpetually obsess over bad news on a daily basis.

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Pretty sure more people have already died from the regular old flu this season than CV. I'm not looking to catch either, but this isn't bubonic plague level decimation. No, I'm not worried.

Yes, I am concerned. This shit has passed the bar of SARS in 2003 or H1N1, we are into pandemic territory. This is like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. It can incubate for 14 days, cause lung damage, heart damage, ball damage, and can leave you infectious for weeks after being "cured". It also can reinfect and is airborne and fecal transmissible, so you could catch the virus if someone farts.

I am stopping at the store to buy a mask and gloves and nonperishable goods. I will also probably buy a box of ammo and basic first aid supplies. I might have to seal myself in my house for weeks.

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I fear people getting angry at people who make them think, such as posting actual updates from text.npr.org .

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nah. i'm at the point where theres not much i can do to prevent it if it gets to me. but i don't think it will.

LostForest posted...

I watch updates about it during NHK newsline every single morning before I go to work.

I also just choose to go on with my fucking daily life and not participate in the OH GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING circlejerk that people love to spin up every few months. Remember when World War 3 was supposed to happen last year because of Iran? Remember when ebola was going to kill everyone? Remember when North Korea and Donald Trump were going to go create glorious hellfire nuclear war?

There's better, more constructive things to do with your time and attention than to perpetually obsess over bad news on a daily basis.

going about your day and being cautious can both be done fyi

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Also, if you judge the personal risk to yourself to be low, is that sufficient grounds to shrug it off as a public health threat?

I'm probably healthy enough to survive it myself if I caught it. But there are people I care about who might not be. And there are definitely people whom I don't know who certainly aren't. Even if I don't know them, I still want them to be protected.

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I suppose the only scary thing about it is that theres no cure yet.

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pauIie posted...

going about your day and being cautious can both be done fyi

What constitutes "being cautious" that isn't already part of everyday life?

Do you not already wash your hands and avoid touching your face in public? lol.

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Nah, at worst I'd be in bed a week

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I'm a healthy 27 year old so no

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mrgoatthief posted...

Used to be, but decided there wasn't very much reason I should be stressed over something I can't do anything about, especially since it hasn't reached North America in any reasonable way.

With both C2E2 and Pax East this weekend, I feel like it will be peak time for it to spread. A couple hundred thousand people crammed into those two conventions, then returning to all parts of the nation, all it takes is one infected and we are seeing it at all corners by March.
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not at all

if i was over the age of 50 or going to south east asia in the next few weeks/month then i would be

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LostForest posted...

What constitutes "being cautious" that isn't already part of everyday life?

Do you not already wash your hands and avoid touching your face in public? lol.

what else are people doing? i hear masks are being bought up. doesn't take that much to buy and wear a mask.

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pauIie posted...

what else are people doing?

Getting into fistfights over supplies. Stockpiling food and water. Buying up gold for their assets. Posting fearmongering clickbait articles online. Panic selling stock shares. Creating conspiracy theories.

There's literally a topic on the front page right now from someone complaining they couldn't buy 20 gallons of water at Costco.

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