So with the global pandemic in full swing its important that we all take action to avoid the transmission of this terrible disease!

Sure we can take the obvious steps such as avoid travelling overseas and avoiding crowded public places but if you want to be totally safe its best to isolate yourself on a remote offshore bomby/reefbreak/point break/empty beach. It's also important to ensure there is plenty of wind and or swell that will quickly disperse any threat of the virus. So far we can rest assured that no one has contracted the virus whilst surfing /kitesurfing /windsurfing/ supping or foiling at a remote location with pumping conditions.

In these trying times it's
important that we all do our bit to fight the corona virus. In fact having just checked the forecast I will personally volunteer to take the rest of the week off to head up the coast and fight the spread of corona virus!

China appears to have halted the spread. If NSW was in China would they have shut down Sydney Airport?
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-05/coronavirus-federal-funds-block-by-red-tape-says-nsw-health/12026792

I grow mushrooms for a hobby.

Anyone who knows anything whatsoever about working with Petri dishes will tell you the same.

If you seriously think that wearing face masks and dicking around with hand steriliser is going to keep you free from contamination you are seriously deluding yourself.

Take a look at the struggle to eliminate golden staph from operating theatres and recovery wards.

By people who have intensive training in keeping stuff sterile.

If you want to avoid it pack a haversack and a rifle and go to the Bush and live like a hermit!

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Ian K said..
China appears to have halted the spread. If NSW was in China would they have shut down Sydney Airport?
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-05/coronavirus-federal-funds-block-by-red-tape-says-nsw-health/12026792

I very doubt latest Chinese statistics. Sudden drop is very suspicious and more likely numbers are censored due to world reception of the news from China.For example not a single case within chinese army!BTW> What is the difference between cruise ship and aircraft carrier? Possibly that crew and passengers from CS are allowed to disembark quickly, 14 days the most. You could hardly imagine now army bases , prisons and aircraft carriers empty.
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fit this model need to be treated with suspicion.



can you see V shape recovery here ( as miraculous stock market after pumping some fiat money) ?



me, not

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Macroscien said..
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fir this model need to be treated with suspicion.

The R0 number is 4.6 to 6.6

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kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fir this model need to be treated with suspicion.

The R0 number is 4.6 to 6.6

yep I am trying to be optimistic and conservativethings like mutation ( either spontaneous or induced in those secret laboratories are not even accounted in predictions. If smart ass in one of those labs combine SARS mortality gene into COVID we are dammed with 10% or better)

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Macroscien said..

kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fir this model need to be treated with suspicion.

The R0 number is 4.6 to 6.6

yep I am trying to be optimistic and conservativethings like mutation ( either spontaneous or induced in those secret laboratories are not even accounted in predictions. If smart ass in one of those labs combine SARS mortality gene into COVID we are dammed with 10% or better)

It did come from the lab.

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kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..

kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fir this model need to be treated with suspicion.

The R0 number is 4.6 to 6.6

yep I am trying to be optimistic and conservativethings like mutation ( either spontaneous or induced in those secret laboratories are not even accounted in predictions. If smart ass in one of those labs combine SARS mortality gene into COVID we are dammed with 10% or better)

It did come from the lab.

agree, most likely, but unlikely the last they have in store. Unlike nuclear the poorest states could afford quite elaborate virus labs. NK , Iran could respond to sanctions in such manner too., without drawing any suspicion.Another worst case scenario is also mutation that will jump on animals and we will be chasing everything from birds, cats dogs and rats to mosquito and fly.

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Macroscien said..

kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..

kiterboy said..

Macroscien said..
Usual transmission rate is 1 to 4 . One person infect 4 others.
Which translate to size of infected doubling every week. Anything that doesn't fir this model need to be treated with suspicion.

The R0 number is 4.6 to 6.6

yep I am trying to be optimistic and conservativethings like mutation ( either spontaneous or induced in those secret laboratories are not even accounted in predictions. If smart ass in one of those labs combine SARS mortality gene into COVID we are dammed with 10% or better)

It did come from the lab.

agree, most likely, but unlikely the last they have in store. Unlike nuclear the poorest states could afford quite elaborate virus labs. NK , Iran could respond to sanctions in such manner too., without drawing any suspicion.Another worst case scenario is also mutation that will jump on animals and we will be chasing everything from birds, cats dogs and rats to mosquito and fly.

I don't believe it was released on purpose.

But they have been making viruses pretty much the same as what has come out of China.
One of the authors in the study is (was?) from the Wuhan Institute of Virology...

Have a look at this nice report: www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985?error=cookies_not_supported&code=223f8a5c-814a-4ef0-adb1-07c76bd1d748

Ahem...Construction of SARS-like chimeric viruses.

And this one... archive.is/F04r7

"Whereas the SL-CoV spike protein was unable to use any of the three ACE2 molecules as its receptor, and the SARS-CoV spike protein failed to center cells expressing the bat ACE2, the chimeric spike protein the study created did gain its ability to center cells via human ACE..."

Smallpox used to be a big problem until somebody came up with the idea of giving people a minor infection by transferring a bit of pus from an infected person to a healthy person, creating a sub clinical disease that primed the immune system
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation

I'm wondering if eating a bit of snot from an infected person could work the same way. You swallow some virus which gets a bit beaten up by your stomach acid, but the broken up proteins and RNA might be enough to stimulate your immune response.

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Mr Milk said..I'm wondering if eating a bit of snot from an infected person could work the same way.

Hey you should try it and report beck eh bro.