[alyas]

You’ve seen “the breathless headlines,” said Shannon Palus in Slate.com, reading like the previews from “a pandemic movie.” The Wuhan coronavirus that became an epidemic in China last month is sowing panic around the globe, with more than 20,000 confirmed cases, 425 dead, and experts increasingly convinced its spread can’t be contained. (See Business and International.) But for Americans, “it’s not as scary as it sounds.” There have been only 11 confirmed cases here, which means the current odds of getting it are near zero. And even if you were to somehow contract the virus, symptoms for most people are not life-threatening— a fever, respiratory congestion, and a cough. “Treatment means riding out the symptoms as you would with a common cold.”
source : http://www.vikilix.com/2020/02/20/coron ... be-afraid/

[Verv]

Here in Korea, in the course of two days, we went from 31 cases to 156, and this number is expected to go up, and some are speculating that it is possible for it to really just increase exponentially because it is so hard to get a lockdown on something that can just be dormant for over a week.

We know that the Coronavirus can also be passed through the air between people who barely have contact with each other, as is the case with the cruise ship, and so in a society where so many people live in apartments in urban areas, even having people sit tight in their homes could potentially be fruitless because of the amount of apartments connected through vents.

Of course, people between the ages of like 10 and 50 have 0.2-0.4% chance of death in most circumstances, but we need to be worried for everyone else.

Some more thoughts:

(1) The more this spreads in Asian countries outside of China, the greater the threat there will be to people in the West.
(2) The more it spreads, the greater the chance of it mutating will be.

[Godstud]

1 new case in Thailand.

Fifteen of the infected people in Thailand have recovered and returned home, while 20 are still being treated in hospital.

Thailand does have an exceptional healthcare system, though.