1. Welcome! Please take a few seconds to create your free account to post threads, make some friends, remove a few ads while surfing and much more. ClutchFans has been bringing fans together to talk Houston Sports since 1996. Join us!

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)/SARS-CoV-2 virus

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by tinman, Jan 22, 2020.

  1. malakas

    malakas Member

    Joined:
    Nov 8, 2014
    Messages:
    20,167
    Likes Received:
    15,381


    Nurses and Doctors in Wuhan hospitals make their own masks and use plastic covers instead of protective suits.

    This is completely unacceptable.
    Masks aren't ABIBAS shoes and Lucci bags you can counterfeit.

    But don' t forget...


    NOT because of what is happening to China but other countries.
    They had to lick Xi's boots to even dare to announce an emergency.

    And Good Job to the whistleblower in the hospital of Wuhan who bypassed censorship to bring the conditions to light and is probably being transferred to a prison as we speak.
     
    joshuaao, Nook and Yung-T like this.
  2. likestohypeguy

    Joined:
    Nov 10, 2009
    Messages:
    3,726
    Likes Received:
    1,763
    ^if not because of China, wtf is going on in the worst countries?!



    Noooo didn't think about India, must be what they're talking about. I cannot imagine, the streets.
     
  3. daywalker02

    daywalker02 Member

    Joined:
    Jul 17, 2006
    Messages:
    99,043
    Likes Received:
    48,882
     
  4. malakas

    malakas Member

    Joined:
    Nov 8, 2014
    Messages:
    20,167
    Likes Received:
    15,381
    I can tell you that Australia, Thailand and India have lost lhe plot and now we will see about Italy.

    In all those instances infected tourists straight from Wuhan spent a whole week travelling around staying in hotels and using public transportation and took planes of which flights' passengers are still roaming freely around.

    In Thailand the tourists also infected a taxi driver who then kept working for days.
    It will be extremely difficult not to have an epidemic over there.

    I don't mean to be causing panic I just write what I see happening.

    I for one have already bought alcohol wipes and disinfectant. I don't worry about myself but some old people around me.
     
  5. JeeberD

    JeeberD Member

    Joined:
    Sep 7, 2002
    Messages:
    2,828
    Likes Received:
    656
    Just curious, @malakas, where do you get your information?
     
  6. omgTHEpotential

    Joined:
    Apr 4, 2012
    Messages:
    7,512
    Likes Received:
    6,045
  7. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Jul 26, 2002
    Messages:
    35,975
    Likes Received:
    36,809
    sorry, malakas, but this doesn’t make medical sense. You can’t usefully compare Ebola or HIV to a respiratory virus in transmission rates, right?

    im sure if someone has sex with a Coronavirus patient, then yeah, more likely transmitted than HIV.
     
    KingCheetah and malakas like this.
  8. tinman

    tinman 999999999
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    May 9, 1999
    Messages:
    104,185
    Likes Received:
    47,049
    Lesson needed to be learn here

    don’t eat
    Bats
    Cats
    And Rats
     
    malakas likes this.
  9. Andre0087

    Andre0087 Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2012
    Messages:
    9,989
    Likes Received:
    13,642
    Throw man's best friend in there for good measure.
     
    malakas, tinman and Sajan like this.
  10. Sajan

    Sajan Member

    Joined:
    Apr 18, 2009
    Messages:
    9,281
    Likes Received:
    7,064
    and things that crawl...
     
  11. robbie380

    robbie380 ლ(▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿ლ)
    Supporting Member

    Joined:
    Aug 16, 2002
    Messages:
    23,962
    Likes Received:
    11,101


    ...everything is under control...

    ...nothing to see here...

    I obviously don’t know **** about this stuff but I did wonder why Chinese doctors immediately started trying to treat this virus with anti HIV drugs. If this is accurate then this makes some sense now.
     
  12. JeeberD

    JeeberD Member

    Joined:
    Sep 7, 2002
    Messages:
    2,828
    Likes Received:
    656
  13. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

    Joined:
    Jun 11, 1999
    Messages:
    37,265
    Likes Received:
    13,730
    Tinman's best friend is Tilman Fertitta. Tinman probably doesn't love dogs like the rest of us. Neither does his buddy Tilman who keeps tigers locked in cages.
     
  14. Andre0087

    Andre0087 Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2012
    Messages:
    9,989
    Likes Received:
    13,642
    Wuhan is the heart of a Chinese biological facility so this isn't surprising, disturbing but not surprising.
     
  15. Pole

    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 1999
    Messages:
    8,566
    Likes Received:
    2,730
    Needs to be peer reviewed, but if this turns out to be true, this is gonna be a wild ride. WWIII type stuff.
     
  16. Commodore

    Commodore Member

    Joined:
    Dec 15, 2007
    Messages:
    33,557
    Likes Received:
    17,513
  17. Nook

    Nook Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2008
    Messages:
    59,774
    Likes Received:
    132,237
    It is a lot easier "to get things done" when the idea of "getting things done" is putting a bullet in the back of the citizen's heads or locking them up in concentration camps.
     
    malakas likes this.
  18. Exiled

    Exiled Member

    Joined:
    Dec 20, 2013
    Messages:
    5,121
    Likes Received:
    1,269
    this is the actual virological Coronavirus phylogenetic tree :

    Phylogenetic tree of 50 coronaviruses with partial nucleotide sequences of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method using MEGA 5.0. The scale bar indicates the estimated number of substitutions per 20 nucleotides.
    AntelopeCoV: sable antelope coronavirus; BCoV: bovine coronavirus; BdCoV HKU22: bottlenose dolphin coronavirus HKU22; BuCoV HKU11: bulbul coronavirus HKU11; BWCoV-SW1: beluga whale coronavirus SW1; CMCoV HKU21: common-moorhen coronavirus HKU21; DcCoV UAE-HKU23: dromedary camel coronavirus UAE-HKU23; ECoV: equine coronavirus; Erinaceous-CoV: betacoronavirus Erinaceus/VMC/DEU/2012; FIPV: feline infectious peritonitis virus; HCoV-229E: human coronavirus 229E; HCoV-HKU1: human coronavirus HKU1; HCoV-NL63: human coronavirus NL63; HCoV-OC43: human coronavirus OC43; Hi-BatCoV HKU10: Hipposideros bat coronavirus HKU10; IBV-partridge: avian infectious bronchitis virus partridge isolate; IBV-peafowl: avian infectious bronchitis virus peafowl isolate; KSA-CAMEL-363: KSA-CAMEL-363 isolate of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; MERS-CoV: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; MHV: murine hepatitis virus; Mi-BatCoV 1A: Miniopterus bat coronavirus 1A; Mi-BatCoV 1B: Miniopterus bat coronavirus 1B; Mi-BatCoV HKU7: Miniopterus bat coronavirus HKU7; Mi-BatCoV HKU8: Miniopterus bat coronavirus HKU8; MRCoV HKU18: magpie robin coronavirus HKU18; MunCoV HKU13: munia coronavirus HKU13; My-BatCoV HKU6: Myotis bat coronavirus HKU6; NeoCoV: coronavirus Neoromicia/PML-PHE1/RSA/2011; NHCoV HKU19: night heron coronavirus HKU19; PEDV: porcine epidemic diarrhea virus; PHEV: porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus; Pi-BatCoV-HKU5: Pipistrellus bat coronavirus HKU5; PorCoV HKU15: porcine coronavirus HKU15; PRCV: porcine respiratory coronavirus; RbCoV HKU14: rabbit coronavirus HKU14; RCoV parker: rat coronavirus Parker; Rh-BatCoV HKU2: Rhinolophus bat coronavirus HKU2; Ro-BatCoV-HKU9: Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU9; Ro-BatCoV HKU10: Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU10; SARSCoV: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus; SARSr-CiCoV: SARS-related palm civet coronavirus; SARSr-Rh-BatCoV HKU3: SARS-related Rhinolophus bat coronavirus HKU3; Sc-BatCoV 512: Scotophilus bat coronavirus 512; SpCoV HKU17: sparrow coronavirus HKU17; TCoV: turkey coronavirus; TGEV: transmissible gastroenteritis virus; ThCoV HKU12: thrush coronavirus HKU12; Ty-BatCoV-HKU4: Tylonycteris bat coronavirus HKU4; WECoV HKU16: white-eye coronavirus HKU16; WiCoV HKU20: wigeon coronavirus HKU20.

    "....
    It has close similarity to bat coronaviruses, and it is likely that bats are the primary source, but whether 2019-nCoV is transmitted directly from bats or through some other mechanism (eg, through an intermediate host) is unknown...."
     
    B-Bob, malakas and Nook like this.
  19. Major

    Major Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 1999
    Messages:
    41,681
    Likes Received:
    16,205
    The other interpretation is a *global* emergency only exists if a problem is global. Therefore, even if all of China was dying, if it was limited to there, it wouldn't be a global emergency. They are declaring it now because the problem has spread across the globe - ie, because of what's we're seeing in other countries.
     
    malakas and Nook like this.
  20. likestohypeguy

    Joined:
    Nov 10, 2009
    Messages:
    3,726
    Likes Received:
    1,763

    When I first read about the two chinese researchers banned from the canadian infectious diseases center, I figured they just pantsed some test tubes

    Now I'm thinking yes that still happened, but it was a project virus. Looked like it had potential, after some modifications.
     
    #300 likestohypeguy, Jan 31, 2020
    Last edited: Jan 31, 2020

Share This Page