Originally posted by Wayne
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Sure.
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Just cuz you are not used to it doen't mean that it is not ok to eat it. I mean different cultures see eating pork and beef as digusting yet we in the west consume them en masse.
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Admin (do not reply) you didn't have to make a second account just to reply that
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Yes, people die every day. Remember never to attend any funeral and never talk or feel anything about anyone's death.Originally posted by Hejira View PostLeave a comment:
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I saw a soup based dish with a dead bat in earlier and good grief, I nearly vommed.
This is clearly a horrid virus, hopefully it doesn't become a pandemic.Leave a comment:
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Some 700 people died from the bird flu.Originally posted by Thriller View Post
Some 800 people died from SARS.
11,300 people died from ebola.
Up to 579,000 people might have died from the swine flu.
"Until the 20th century, anthrax infections killed hundreds of thousands of people and animals each year."
These were lives. We also didn't die from either of the world wars, or indeed any of the wars and conflicts and general crimes and violence. Your comment quite literally meant nothing.Leave a comment:
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If we are to believe the official numbers, ebola was more deadly and wide-spread (for now). Nevertheless, ebola never led any government to respond the ways they have been responding - China is practically locked up, North Korea and Mongolia closed off their border, multiple countries evacuating nationals.Originally posted by dylonj View Post
The main difference is that where ebola had its outbreak was not somewhere that's globally connected. There are Chinese immigrants and tourists everywhere in the world, and this is the Lunar New Year vacation where people are likely to travel between China and somewhere else. China also tends to cover up more than western African countries do.
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I wouldn't worry about visiting anywhere outside China proper. There has not been local transmissions (the Singaporean and Malaysian cases were transmitted outside China, but they were a family), meaning you cannot really catch it.Originally posted by abi View PostLeave a comment:
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There was a good tweet the other day:
A chinese: Ok, look how I build a complete hospital in just 10 days!
Also a chinese: Good, let's cook this bat in my soup, what can go wrong?Leave a comment:
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Remember anthrax, SARS, bird flu, swine flu and Ebola? Yeah they never killed us either.Leave a comment:
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How does this compare to the Ebola outbreak? Should we be more concerned about this compared to Ebola?Leave a comment:
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Have ya’ll see the video of the hospital being built in Wuhan, in just two weeks?
Both impressive and disturbing.Leave a comment:
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I live in Indonesia and I'm about to fly to Singapore this March so this is definitely really scary to me. I saw some videos online of people passing out on the streets and all the doctors & nurses are getting really frustrated and it really breaks my heart. Keep in mind that this virus is originated in China where the government is known to be secretive about what's happening in their country, so there probably things going on right now that we might not know. Stay safe & healthy everyone!Leave a comment:
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It may or may not get globally serious, but what "normal flu" would lead to a country of 1.3 billion to shut down cities with tens of million of people in lockdown and suspend all domestic and international tourism activities? Which "normal flu" has prompted multiple countries to not only issue travel warnings, but evacuate nationals? When was the last time a "normal flu" led to a country literally closing its borders?Originally posted by Hejira View PostLeave a comment:
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It's really not that scary. Of course the media hypes it up with numbers etc, but people die of a regular flu too. Most people that'll get infected will just get a regular flu and be fine after 1/2 weeks. It's those with a weak resistance (sick, old, very young people) that might be at risk.
It reminds me of that insane Mexican flu outbreak from about a decade or so ago..it was going to be 'catastrophic' but really it was just a normal flu. Just because it's a mutated version and the outbreak of it is recent, doesn't mean we're gonna get "The Stand" situations.Leave a comment:
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Coronavirus outbreak
A rise in fatalities: 41 people have now been killed by the Wuhan coronavirus. As of the end of the day Friday, 1,287 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus -- and 237 of them are in critical condition, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A 2-year-old patient: The local health authority in the southern region of Guangxi said a 2-year-old girl has been infected by the Wuhan coronavirus. She is believed to be the youngest patient to have been sickened by the new virus that has swept through China.
A global concern: Three more countries -- Australia, Malaysia and Nepal -- have reported confirmed cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus. They are among 13 places outside mainland China where the virus has been confirmed.
A holiday canceled: Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and other major cities have canceled festivities for the Lunar New Year Holiday in an effort to stop the spread of the disease. The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar, a time when hundreds of thousands of people travel home to be with their families and celebrate.
A stretched healthcare system: Health officials are responding in full force to the crisis, but videos and witness accounts from Wuhan paint a picture of packed hospitals and overworked staff. There are seven hospitals designated to deal with the crisis in the city, and 10,000 beds have been requisitioned. They are also building a new, 1,000-bed hospital on the city's outskirts -- and are hoping to finish it in six days.
Wuhan officials acknowledged that people have been turned away at local hospitals that are struggling to accommodate people seeking medical attention.
The People's Liberation Army and National Health Commission both announced Saturday that they're deploying more medical personnel to Wuhan.
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-ne...-20/index.html
3 confirmed cases in France, 2 in the US.
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