nothing he has said tells me this is anything special

and if you think it IS something special you really should have something about it that you can bullet point for me.

this level of panic happend when Ebola was a thing, and before that swine flu, yah people are gonna die but people die form things we take forgranted all the time, like driveing.

we where lucky with ebola

its killed itself off

i'm haveing a hard time thinking the ONLY reason there is more panic over this then there was over swine flu is because the media have an interest in useing this to drag down trump, i could be wrong sure but they could also be wrong.

this is the sort of thing that it's to late to do anything about once it's known, you have to do things about it BEFORE it happens, like i said, things that everyone should always be doing anyways like washing hands and haveing food and water stockpiles.

the only people who need to be worrieing about this are the people who are high risk, such as the people who already are sick in a way that this thing will make worse.

The big differences between this and all of the other diseases are:

1) It can spread asymptomatically. Others requires showing symptoms in order to spread, making it easier to identify and isolate from the population. Here you have no idea who has it and who doesn't.

2) Retardedly long incubation period. While someone is running around asymptomatically shedding the virus, by the time they do show symptoms it'll be too late to stop them and quarantine them. Making the critical function of contact tracing all the much harder.

3) High complication rate. People need to stop comparing this to the seasonal flu. The seasonal flu has a case complication rate of 1%, meaning those infected will require some kind of hospitalization care or ICU. This has a case complication rate of at least 18%. That's an 18x severity. No modern medical system has the capacity to handle that. Even with Italy ramping up their capacity pre-shit show, they're already overwhelmed and are instituting triage.

4) The seasonal flu we have firewalls in place to stop massive community spread. Ranging from vaccines to existing herd immunity. We have 0 immunity or vaccines to this. Which means it'll wreck havoc and spread like wildfire as we saw in China when it is not taken seriously.

china is a very bad compairson to the US and how things will go here, the only thing that you can compair is that we are bolth humans.

everything form government to lifestyle is diffrent.

not to mention that china has no where near the genitic diversity that the US has.

Viruses DGAF about lifestyle or govt style. It's health care + pandemic preparation policies that governs the outcome of how it spreads.

um, ok that is only half true at best.

do i really have to explain how the population density would change how infectious something is in an area?
or how genitic diversity could slow the spred of something like this?
how about how nearly half of the US is mostly smaller comunities?
how most people get around with their own car rather then public transport?

i'm also sure that the climate is also vastly diffrent.

at the base of it all what can a normal person do about this anyways that they shouldn't be doing anyways?

because it seems to me that basic disaster prep would go a very long way to deal with this.

course now it's to late to be doing basic disaster prep for this thing.

You do realize that most of the population of the us lives in higher density areas

And are hubs to international travel?

And that most cases now are spread via people nothing to do with china now?

i'm sure plenty do, how does that density compair with the likes of china?

@Roof Korean and they usally vote dem so....

@SilverKestral shut up boomer

Its funny hoe you bring up china

When many cases of people dying also come out of villages

I still want the answer to "what should common people be doing that they wouldn't otherwise be doing"

@Roof Korean thats zoomer to you

there is nothing they can do

Other than not panic and stop swallowing the medias dick

most people probably will get the virus at this point

containment is impossible now

ok so if "there is nothing the common person can do" is the answer then it's not worth even talking about this stuff.

Theres nothing the average person can do about the large corrupted military spending

We shouldnt discuss it

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Look at me bois the peak of intellect

uh that's not the same as an active disaster.

Im so different because im jaded

Im not like the other eboys

There's one confirmed case in my county.