I have been following this since day one via the ABC mainly. Excellent updates. Agree with Jee & DR. The health aspect is the important part in all this. Full stop.
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I have been following this since day one via the ABC mainly. Excellent updates. Agree with Jee & DR. The health aspect is the important part in all this. Full stop.
Fremantle player being tested for potential Coronavirus infection.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...09-p548ez.html
I can’t see anyway that the season starts on time with full crowds. Panic has set in. Schools are being closed. Strap yourself in. This is going to get a lot worse before it improves.
“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”
So this is the reason our membership numbers are down. Our loyal members are holding off because of the fear around Coronavirus and attending games.
Also explains the team on the weekend practising their 'social distancing' with their opponents. Smart hygiene being practised by our guys.
A Freo player is being tested for coronavirus.
Read here
People need to keep things in perspective & not get hysterical. Like others have said do your own research & don't rely on the front page of the Herald Sun to keep you informed. I'm not sure the ABC is a great source either when people are questioning the information coming from our politicians & the ABC is funded by the same people. Agree we the public are kept in the dark about the full story but that goes with most things these days anyway.
The hysteria out there its like this virus is like a zombie virus & everyone that gets it is toast. Reality is its a mild version of the flu & if you're not immunocompromised then you have no reason to panic.
I'm not worried about the virus itself but rather what comes with it. If it effects the football season particularly our games i'll be devastated.
Sorry you are wrong, possibly dead wrong.
Check out some simple facts about this, such as 80% are mild cases.
So that leaves 20%. Those poor folk need some kind of hospital medical care and treatment, which for many means ICU type treatment and/or respirators.
That's why we saw the dreadful scenes inside the over loaded hospitals of Wuhan, and now being seen in hospitals in northern Italy.
And coming our way soon.
Dr John Campbell in the UK is the man for good updates and info.
Monday update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SZBuHFzYlw
YouTube channel page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
OK, 80% are mild......the overwhelming majority of cases are mild. Yes there are a significant minority of cases (20%) that are serious where the symptoms progress to acute and threaten life and well-being. There are a minority of the 20% who die.
That's no reason to panic. It is largely not too dissimilar to flu in terms of its mortality rate. Its similar to flu in that the most vulnerable are the elderly, the already ill and younger children. If there is a difference it is the infection rate. It appears to be more infectious than the flu and is hitting Northern Hemisphere largely because we are all still in the grips of winter - cold weather tends to spread germs and flu diereses quicker.
I'm going to suggest that these are better sources:
https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-de...-coronaviruses
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail...assing-100-000
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...beeeee1b9125cd
So taking the last link - 109k cases; 3,809 deaths = 3.5%mortality rate, but this probably overplays somewhat as there will be significantly more undiagnosed cases than there are undiagnosed deaths so the "denominator effect" will drive down the mortality percentage.
I'm not saying this is not serious, it is. But there is a hysteria being driven by the media that is completely disproportional to the risk this pandemic poses to the majority of the population.
You do realise that the 20% require hospital resources that no country has?
Wrong. Seasonal flu mortality rate is 0.1%. Covid 19 is least 10 to 20 twenty times that.
Wrong. Curiously, they seem to be unaffected and/or have little symptoms.
Correct. At least twice or three times as infectious.
Maybe right, maybe wrong. There is no data that suggests that this a winter disease, but some believe that summer in the northern hemisphere will give some relief. There is some research that believes it does not like warmer temps.
That's the good news.
Bad news is that we downunder are heading towards winter.