Gazuki said..
Agreed.
The cruise ship docked in Japan is giving us a more honest view of how contagious this could be. So far 175 tested positive, they are expecting almost 1-3 ratio,.. that is scary.
The high infection rate is what scares the officials and is why they are panicking. The average flu can live on surfaces for 24-48hr and is spread by droplet in a 2m radius. Corona can live on surfaces for 9 days, is spread by fecal, contact, droplet, and aerosol to 6m.
The other thing that makes it scary is the low death rate (2%) and long incubation period. Meaning people are passing it before being symptomatic,.sometimes up to two weeks. Apposed to Ebola which was two effective at 10%, it pretty much kills its self out because its two deadly.
I believe we are only seeing the tip of the ice berg and I know 1300 deaths isn't much compared to Chinese population but as I said before,. deaths are a lag indicator,.. watch this space. Its only been just over a month.
As backwards as China is they have better recourse for dealing with this, (They have a million strong army not yet deployed).... our hospital in Aus are always stretched,.. throw something like this at it and the impact could be massive.
Chinese nationals have a whole different slant on things to us mere mortals from the West so to speak.
Work college being Chinese national, I was discussing the death rate with this outbreak of new viruses in China.
His simple answer without a blink and a shrug of his shoulders was. No problem, plenty more Chinese men and women
And he was dead serious.
