A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines, the first confirmed fatality outside China.

The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected.

He appeared to have been infected before arriving in the Philippines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51345855

Meanwhile in the US......
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51342278

No filter! No brains.

So next time there is a flu somehere in the world all airlines and trade will come to a halt? :doh:

Yes,but in this case ...who FLU the koop?!! With the ongoing African Swine Fever epidemic: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/business/china-pigs-african-swine-fever.html'Twixt the corona virus; the chicken flu; and the swine fever, the worlds largest population is under a three-prong attack; suffering the ravages of Mother Nature's method of overpopulation control: Pigs, Poultry or People..... oh my! hmmm:

Better late than never? :hmmm:

THE Chinese authorities are deliberately falsifying the coronavirus numbers, a leading expert has said.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/108869...ller-outbreak/

If this is true ^ it wouldn't suplise me.

And now to something different....Sport

We are heading towards to major sport event

European Championship Football and the Olympic in Tokyo

It have made me wonder if one or both of these event will be postponed or cancelled.

Markus

Now this is big news and China is mad at the US for shutting down air travel :hmmm:


Coronavirus: Bad Luck Hits Macau Casinos With 15-Day Shutdown
China’s gambling hub suffers blow in unprecedented closure

https://www.wsj.com/articles/deadly-...os-11580816447

I have seen video's on the news that show drones following people that don't wear face mask and making verbal notice of it to everyone around them. :o

Here it is ... I saw it on ABC :yep:
even has a video :up:

https://abcnews.go.com/International...ry?id=68746989

Coronavirus: China deploys drones with cameras, loudhailers to chastise people for unsafe behavior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPw6xjwAlHc

As far as i read this is a flu virus. What the hell is so dangerous? :doh:

Ok, on one hand China's dictator Xi Jinping wants to show off how capable his ruling model is, in comparison to the decadent west.
So spraying something into the landscape, building hospitals in a few weeks, deploying drones and publicly denouncing and chastizing people who do not follow orders is the try to appear as if it all is under control. Fail.

490 fatalities from 2019-nCov

3,219 serious
892 recovered
23,260 suspected


U.S. Averages
102 fatalities per day from auto accidents
130 fatalities per day from drug overdose
14 fatalities per day from food poisoning
44 murders per day
6 alien abductions per day

What's so dangerous about a novel virus? If you contract it, it could kill you. I'm 60, so I would be high risk. And even if it does not kill you, I don't want to spend a week in the Intensive Care Unit in extreme distress. :shucks:

Yes, it would be nice to stop this from spreading. This is not a flu virus that we are used to. And there's no way to say it won't mutate as it spreads and kills more people. Imagine you have a 3 year old granddaughter and she contracts this, suffers and dies. The most important thing we can do is all we can to limit the spread of this virus.

^ maybe it is being played down here, but there seems to be not much concern about it.
A bigger problem here are the thousands of people blocking emergency hospitalisation because they think they have this corona virus.

"This is not a flu virus we are used to".
True, though the flu virus we know kills ten thousands more than this new one.

Better safe than sorry alright, you have a point.

1. That's definitely a big concern, if your town experiences a massive outbreak, service could be overwhelmed, leading to more casualties. If you have not seen the movie Contagion, I highly recommend it. The virus in that movie was fictitious, it affected the victim more quickly and more lethally than coronavirus seems to do, but the transmissiblity seems comparable. And with these viruses, we never know how it could adapt to treatment and drugs, it could get worse. A mad dog that could become a rabid lion.

2, The new flu will match the old flu, probably surpass it by a lot, if it ever gets loose in the general population. That's why the concern now is containment. It's a small problem as long as we act strenuously to limit the spread. We will know in 4~6 weeks how these actions fare.

I think of it like a fire. You see a small fire in your apartment, you know without thinking that it must be extinguished with every possible effort while it is still possible to do so. Act casually and it could spread beyond any hope of control before you realize it.