Hudini...from your unique perspective, thoughts on the new Chinese corona virus (Page 30/146)
MidEngineManiac FEB 14, 12:06 PM
NOW we are talking !

If the virus dont get us, maybe the rock will !!

DOOM ON !! (Gotta love watching people's panic reactions to something they have zero control over )
maryjane FEB 14, 12:26 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:

NOW we are talking !

If the virus dont get us, maybe the rock will !!

DOOM ON !! (Gotta love watching people's panic reactions to something they have zero control over )


Morons abound.
Will 'miss' 14x the distance from here to the moon. Any 5th grader knows this.
Children posing as Adult Morons don't.


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At its closest, the space rock will approach Earth from about 0.03860 astronomical units.

One astronomical unit measures the distance from the Sun to Earth – about 93 million miles (149.l6 million km).

In other words, NASA expects the rock to safely miss us by more than 3.58 million miles (5.77 million km).
MadMark FEB 14, 05:30 PM
BBC News has an article that is confirming one of my worst case scenarios. That the hospitals, nurses and doctors are overwhelmed and cannot provide proper care to all people. So there are many who get the virus and never get diagnosed or treated. They basically are left to die. And they may or may not be included in the statistics. I would guess probably not.
This would mean that the outbreak is many times worse than the official statistics.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51440129
maryjane FEB 14, 08:19 PM
Something again looks odd.
Is there something wrong with the way my browser is displaying the graph and it's data?
After the change in how they were counting that resulted in 15,000 additional cases, then about 4000 the next day, but today, it shows only 100 new cases?

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Hudini FEB 14, 09:11 PM
I'm trying to get my head around the "recovered" vs "died". The gov shows ~1000 recovered vs ~150 dead. Is that a 15% death rate or is the math such that recovery takes a long time and death is sooner (and much easier to count)? I am not a math person at all.
maryjane FEB 14, 10:10 PM
Death rate is usually a % of the people that have been infected.
My math shows the death rate of total infected to be 2.34%

The John Hopkins site shows completely different numbers than you stated tho.
(as of 2-15-20 9pm Central US time)
67,079 total infections thus far
66,484 of those are in mainland China.
Total deaths 1,525 with only 1 death outside mainland China.
Total recovered stands at 8,156.
China mainland recovered= 8,083
Recovered outside China= 73

Numbers on that website are changing every few hours tho.

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maryjane FEB 15, 01:15 AM

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Originally posted by Hudini:


I am off for 3 weeks now..



CPA?
Hudini FEB 15, 03:26 AM
It's my contract terms, 6 weeks on and 3 weeks off. I was supposed to come home the 12th after working for 6 weeks.

I still haven't received word on what exactly the forced unpaid leave means to me. Since off time is earned the company is obligated to pay me for the 3 weeks off. If they still want 40 unpaid days off after my scheduled off days then I will get on a flight through Tokyo and come home to spend my 2 week self-quarantine at home.
blackrams FEB 15, 05:46 AM

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Originally posted by Hudini:

It's my contract terms, 6 weeks on and 3 weeks off. I was supposed to come home the 12th after working for 6 weeks.

I still haven't received word on what exactly the forced unpaid leave means to me. Since off time is earned the company is obligated to pay me for the 3 weeks off. If they still want 40 unpaid days off after my scheduled off days then I will get on a flight through Tokyo and come home to spend my 2 week self-quarantine at home.



Been following your story and wish you nothing but good luck.

Heard on the news that China is using survivor donated blood to treat those still suffering from this. Can you confirm from any sources there?
I'm not medically qualified to suggest anything about this, I'm assuming the survivors are supposed to have anti-virus capacity?

Rams
MidEngineManiac FEB 15, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by Hudini:

I'm trying to get my head around the "recovered" vs "died". The gov shows ~1000 recovered vs ~150 dead. Is that a 15% death rate or is the math such that recovery takes a long time and death is sooner (and much easier to count)? I am not a math person at all.



I've been looking at that too and wondering if this thing leaves behind some kind of permanent respiratory damage, similar to COPD or along those lines. Meaning there never really is a recovery.