COVID-19 Discussion

[Fummins]

Fear and logic are not often complementary.

[Eggman]

Fear and logic are not often complementary.

But isn't logic supposed to dispel fear?

[Top_Fuel]

This article has some interesting graphics that illustrate how something like this can spread under different conditions...

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to flatten the curve

[Fummins]

For logical people. There's a lot of dummies out there buying up toilet paper.

[Space Wolf]

But isn't logic supposed to dispel fear?

No. Only if the fear is destructive. In many cases fear has a function, it helps you to stay out of dangerous situations. And logic dictates that it's better to unnecessarily stay out of a not dangerous situation due to too much fear, than getting into a dangerous situation by too little fear. Better safe than sorry.

[stevedmc]

And by the way is anyone familiar with Steven King's The Stand?

First saw that series back when I was in high school. Scared the crap out of me. I started watching the serious again a few days ago. We don't have a bunch of dead people laying around the streets, but the film still gives me a different feeling today than it did years ago.

[Eggman]

Japanese man tests positive for coronavirus again

Sunday, March 15, 2:38 (UTC)
Japanese man tests positive for coronavirus again
Officials in western Japan's Mie Prefecture say a man who was a passenger on a cruise ship that was hit by the coronavirus has again tested positive after recovering from infection.

The man, who is in his 70s, first tested positive for the virus on February 14 while he was onboard the Diamond Princess, which was under quarantine off Yokohama.

He left a medical facility in Tokyo on March 2 after he was confirmed negative. He returned to his home in Mie by public transportation.

But he started to feel sick and developed a fever of 39 degrees Celsius on Thursday. He went to hospital on Friday, and on Saturday was confirmed to be infected again.

He is now receiving treatment at a hospital in the prefecture.

Prefectural officials plan to trace his recent activities and carry out checks of people who have had close contact with him.

[poorman1]

The tests can give false positives as well as false negatives, Also there are 2 strains S and L

[Mirageman38]

I'm already starting to go stir crazy from all this work from home.... you could have told me two weeks ago and I would have been happy. Something about being forced to lol.

[2of9]

My theory on toilet paper is that a bunch of people got the "bright" idea to profit from some of the confusion...and try to induce demand.

Haha. Man, sad but true. Still, I also wonder where that "buy toilet paper!11!!" came from. Seriously. I can't get my head around it.

I went to 4 locations yesterday and they were ALL out of TP. Freaking. Ridiculous on another level. People don't care how many issues their car has even after their mechanics tell them to replace several parts... but Corona-Virus? Better jump on hoarding ALL the TP I can get my hands on. lol