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Sometime today, there will be more active, reported coronavirus cases outside of China than inside. The cat is out of the bag for sure. I think at this point, it's only a matter of time till a good portion of us catch the disease, barring a vaccine in the next few months. Good luck to you and your loved ones.
Moving on, this appears to me to be a real world test of various countries' public health systems, with such things as how accurate the above reports are, or how many people are infected or die due to this coronavirus.
Moving on, this appears to me to be a real world test of various countries' public health systems, with such things as how accurate the above reports are, or how many people are infected or die due to this coronavirus.
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-- Dilbert
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:26PM
This virus is going to massively re-arrange the geopolitical landscape. I really think it's going to cause exponentially more suffering by its economic impacts than the direct effects of the virus itself. Speaking personally, as someone in her very early 30s with no specific risk factors and a normal BMI, I'm not worried about getting this aside from losing at least a week of wages.
No, the real problem here is this is likely another black swan event on the scale of 9/11 or the 2008 crash, and will likely linger around a lot longer. I predict this thing is going to become a permanent member of the world's constantly-circulating virus pool, and will likely become no worse than the average cold or flu in 1-5 years.
But until then, this is going to topple a lot of established power structures, because many of them are rotten and corrupt to the core. The US is a prime example. I hope and pray that the major lessons that we learn from this are 1) healthcare *is* national security and 2) we need to clean our corruption problem up if we don't want something even worse to wipe us out utterly.