09-03-2020, 13:53
I totally agree Dancing. Washing your hands a bit more and more thoroughly, whilst stopping short of OCD sounds sensible-ish as does avoiding crowded pubs with everyone breathing in your face …….. but beyond that, other than the gun turrets I've erected and the sheep-dip containers I've installed I'm making no moves towards self-isolation.
As this virus is making people ill it is going to cause us logistical problems treating people and them being off work etc, but the death rate is very low. Unless the virus can transform itself from something infectious to something both infectious and lethal we don't need to worry until some new genie uncorks itself from a bottle.
You're quite right the cows are farting because there are too many of us and we want to eat them and kill their babies to make milk. No wonder they've got irritable bowel …..
What I'd do amid all the panic and confusion is test around 1,000 people at random in a place or places in the country where no cases have been recorded. We ought to get zero positives, but I'm betting the result wouldn't be 0. (I just love all this stuff about scientists trying to trace the source for every infected person. If I spent a couple of days in London I might not knowingly have met Italians or people just returned from Hong Kong or South Korea, but I might have and how long would it take for them to infect me? Man back from visiting distant relatives in Northern Italy hands me a theatre programme, he isn't really ill and is never going to feel more than slightly off it. How am I going to provide enough information for him to be traced?) And why are all these illnesses traced back to obscure animals in strange countries? And species boundaries being mysteriously leapt? Why don't they start in toilets in drug-ridden UK prisons for instance?
As this virus is making people ill it is going to cause us logistical problems treating people and them being off work etc, but the death rate is very low. Unless the virus can transform itself from something infectious to something both infectious and lethal we don't need to worry until some new genie uncorks itself from a bottle.
You're quite right the cows are farting because there are too many of us and we want to eat them and kill their babies to make milk. No wonder they've got irritable bowel …..
What I'd do amid all the panic and confusion is test around 1,000 people at random in a place or places in the country where no cases have been recorded. We ought to get zero positives, but I'm betting the result wouldn't be 0. (I just love all this stuff about scientists trying to trace the source for every infected person. If I spent a couple of days in London I might not knowingly have met Italians or people just returned from Hong Kong or South Korea, but I might have and how long would it take for them to infect me? Man back from visiting distant relatives in Northern Italy hands me a theatre programme, he isn't really ill and is never going to feel more than slightly off it. How am I going to provide enough information for him to be traced?) And why are all these illnesses traced back to obscure animals in strange countries? And species boundaries being mysteriously leapt? Why don't they start in toilets in drug-ridden UK prisons for instance?