There are thousands of Religious pilgrims in Iran. Not all of them are afflicted. The rest of the ME seems better prepared than Iran was. Don't let your imagination run wild.
Smoking affects people more severely than others ie in case of those affected by Viruses
Chinese men smoke a lot
Chinese men smoke a lot
I know it's still early. But we are doing something right in order to keep the cases under control. The traffic we normally face is quite a lot, so the numbers don't add up if people think we aren't doing anything about it. At least we know that the govt is doing everything they can to control it. The main goal is to bring the active cases to zero.
What we have to be worried about is new sources of the virus, not the ones that have been in control for the last few days.
That's 'cause Iran has been unable to test everybody. Iran has reached community tranmission of the virus and their testing speed is extremely low.
Kerala hospitals are all already filled with people under scanner. With few positive cases being reported. No proper quarantine and all. Just masks and such to protect people laying in causality. Looks like Kerala will be hit hard soon. With communitiy transmission being inevitable because whole Kerala is like one big differently populated city cross-wide.
I just listened to a doctor testimony from Lakeshore hospital. It is going to get worse.
I just listened to a doctor testimony from Lakeshore hospital. It is going to get worse.
Brexit will cause corona virus, they missed out on that claim during the 2016 vote.
Ebola wasn't airbourne though, it was nowhere near as transmissible. You could test people en masse without risking spreading it even further. Invite people in for a corona test and congrats you just spread it to everyone.
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I would strictly say, maintain hygiene and sanitation but I also have a opinion.
I think this pandemic coming has a different story or reason behind. I wouldn't say it's not spreading but I would say, it is over hyped keeping US elections in Mind to ouster Trump on the basis of inability to control the spread. It's going to be a hot topic before elections. Just like Modi had to face Pulwama crisis.
It is strictly my opinion, and I again repeat, maintain hygiene and be safe!
I think this pandemic coming has a different story or reason behind. I wouldn't say it's not spreading but I would say, it is over hyped keeping US elections in Mind to ouster Trump on the basis of inability to control the spread. It's going to be a hot topic before elections. Just like Modi had to face Pulwama crisis.
It is strictly my opinion, and I again repeat, maintain hygiene and be safe!
The number of cases in US are still reasonable given the air Traffic from Europe and China
But Europe and Iran are unable to prevent
New infections , that is the worst thing right now
With travel restrictions everywhere we can expect what is known as flattening of the curve in 2 weeks time
The number of cases are low in US because enough tests were not done. Since the test rate has picked up, US numbers are growing exponentially.
US is currently where Italy was 3 weeks ago. If it picks up in India, it will take out the sick, old and weak in large numbers - a complete quarantine in India is next to impossible. Amazing what a single strand of RNA and some protein is capable of doing!
The US is in community transmission phase. Once new tests results come out, the numbers will be higher.
Could just be that the US is 2 weeks behind due to incubation periods.
Amazing that this flu virus hardly affects those under the age of 10 at all. That is very atypical.
Complete "quarantine" has been done many times in India. That's what we call curfew. Now, duration, that's a different story. A nationwide curfew is also difficult to impose, especially considering the costs and logistics involved. Kashmir regularly sees long duration curfew imposed. But if a virus epidemic starts from a point, India has the capacity to isolate and quarantine that entire geographical area.
I'd still say a quarantine of 2 weeks to begin with on a nation wide basis in tier 1, 2 & 3 cities ought to be implemented. It's better than what would follow once it spreads to communites & we get to Stage 3. Then we would have no choice.
Once it gets to stage 3 is when you have to quarantine. That's also the only way to ensure public discipline. If we do it too early, people won't be disciplined when it actually counts.
Right now, the biggest problem is the pilgrims coming in from Iran. But that source has been contained quite well.
When? We have not had a epidemic of this scale before, unless you refer to British India.
There had been a number of other incidences : Emergency, Protests and what not. 90s had massive nation wide protests that everyone has forgotten. Those protests/riots caused long curfews.
A curfew is what I meant by "quarantine". The only difference is they won't shoot you at sight.