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This is super scary. Before I read this I was happily thinking hey it's no worse than flu. Now... I'm wishing I didn't live in a huge city riding the subway da
by tjt 7y ago
This is super scary. Before I read this I was happily thinking hey it's no worse than flu. Now... I'm wishing I didn't live in a huge city riding the subway daily.
- airstrike 7y agoI keep trying to not look up Coronavirus news online, but I can't help it... and after reading this I'm genuinely terrified. The word "potential" on the title is entirely invisible to me.
- drcode 7y agoOddly enough, I was on the "pandemic" bandwagon early enough that my period of anxiety and insomnia has now passed already. People get used to new states of affair pretty quickly.
- airstrike 7y agoI hardly ever have to deal with anxiety, but now I have a headcold and my coworker sitting 6-feet to my right has a mask on...
- lagilogi 7y agoYou should be the one wearing the mall though no?
- airstrike 7y agoStill waiting for mine to be delivered... They're hard to come by! But I'm sure my coworker is wearing a mask for their own set of reasons...
- davidw 7y agoIf you have a cold or anything else infectious, please work from home if at all possible.
- t420mom 7y agoAre you able to ride a bike to work?
- jklhjklhtoeiru 7y agoIn many cities/countries that's more dangerous than just getting the corona.
- tjt 7y agoI'm pretty lucky that I can ride a bike or work remote. My partner doesn't have either option.
- refurb 7y agoI don't understand the worry. As of yesterday, China, a country of 1.4B, had 80,000 cases and 3,000 dead. Last year, the US had 36M infected with the flu and 34,000 died.[1] Are you panicking about the flu? [1]https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
- chinathrow 7y agoThe rates in China are dropping because they have some form of travel restrictions for 780m people. If those restrictions would be removed, the rates would go up immediately as seen before and now in other countries. Edit: source added https://inews.co.uk/news/world/china-coronavirus-covid-19-death-toll-travel-restrictions-1763061 https://inews.co.uk/news/world/china-coronavirus-covid-19-de...
- refurb 7y agoIs there any reason to believe other countries won’t institute travel restrictions if they get a ton of cases? My point is that based on how many die from the flu each year, you’d have to see 130,000 deaths in China for the impact to be the same as the flu.
- nopinsight 7y agoHave you considered the fatality rate and what would happen if it reaches the same percentage of population as seasonal flu? Check out Spanish Flu for worst case scenario. China restrictions have been much more stringent than what you imply. People in Wuhan were prevented from leaving their apartments at all and needed to wait for food from the government. The jury is still out whether softer forms of restrictions can work once the disease is widespread. We will see about that by watching South Korea and Italy. (We know it works if there are not too many cases around, like in Singapore.)
- refurb 7y agoHave you considered the fatality rate and what would happen if it reaches the same percentage of population as seasonal flu? Yeah, that would be bad, but there is no data to suggest it would get that bad.
- Symmetry 7y agoLearning about the mechanism by which it kills shouldn't change our estimates of the lethality of the disease. We already knew that for most people it was just a bad flue but a noticeable fraction of those infected needed to get to an ICU. Now we just have a better idea of why.
- empath75 7y agowe actually have no idea what the long term effects are. Some people seem to be bothered by it for months after.
- samatman 7y agoWhen I lived in Chicago I used to practice riding the L without touching anything with my hands. In the Bay I kept up the habit. This is never not a good idea, so no time like the present to get into it.
- aldanor 7y agoOr you could just wear cycling gloves.
- maxerickson 7y agoThen you have to handle the gloves.