What are your thoughts on the Kung Flu?

[tommygoodtimes]

How are you guys going to handle packages/purchases that come? This can live on surfaces for up to 9 days.

9 days? The last I heard it can survive on Steel and Brass surfaces for 2 hours and 9 hours on wood and plastics.

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[Dos Perros]

How are you guys going to handle packages/purchases that come? This can live on surfaces for up to 9 days.

How can a virus live if it's not ever alive?

 

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That's a technicality, it can survive outside the human body and infect someone is my understanding.

 

[EastMT]

How can a virus live if it's not ever alive?

Right now the evidence is that it’s transmissible 4-9 days on a surface. Outside UV light probably stops it, but it’s so new that I’m sure they will adjust that as new tests are done

 

[KurtR]

uv headlamps are a new untapped market

 

[EastMT]

Believe it or not UV lights are used all over the food industry as it has been validated to kill all kinds of pathogens. A lot of your meat and vegetables go through a light tunnel before packaging.

 

[KurtR]

Believe it or not UV lights are used all over the food industry as it has been validated to kill all kinds of pathogens. A lot of your meat and vegetables go through a light tunnel before packaging.

So if we would have kept using aerosol cans in the 90's to weekend the ozone we would have higher rates of uv coming through and this virus would have been killed before it could get started. who new cfc's could have saved us

 

[fmyth]

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[fmyth]

Here's an excellent overview from the University of Oxford

COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.

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[MuleyFever]

How are you guys going to handle packages/purchases that come? This can live on surfaces for up to 9 days.

Don’t pop the bubble wrap. You’ll let the China air out.

 

[3forks]

I’ve just been waving my Steripen over any packages we get. So far, so good!

 

[Fatcamp]

Here's an excellent overview from the University of Oxford

COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.

ourworldindata.org

Excellent information.

 

[wapitibob]

A guy that had it said he was sicker with a cold than this flu.

 

[ODB]

Don’t pop the bubble wrap. You’ll let the China air out.

There was an old episode of the Simpson’s where that happened. Guy packing a box coughed in it and Homer opened the box and a cloud of cough came out.

 

[jspradley]

Here's an excellent overview from the University of Oxford

COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.

ourworldindata.org

That's really good info.

Not scaremongering and not head-in-the-sand idiocy either. Good find!

 

[jspradley]

The thing people don't seem to be thinking about is how much our health care resources would be taxed if this did get out at the same level the common flu does.

We simply don't have the resources to handle a mass outbreak of a disease that is 20x more deadly than the flu, THAT is the real danger, not so much the risk of death to any individual person.

The efforts of the CDC, the Chinese government and the various governmental health orgs all over the world are exactly what allows us to be so flippant about epidemic risks.

 

[ManyBullets]

Everybody is Kung Flu fighting. . .

 

[Rmauch20]

Some new estimates from the CDC on the regular lame ass flu that nobody’s worried about.
Estimated 34 million flu illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations, 20,000 deaths with 136 being children.

What is the current count in the US on the coronavirus, like 14 old people.
I don’t know guys I think we might be worried about the wrong one.

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Fl...568561001.html

 

[jspradley]

Some new estimates from the CDC on the regular lame ass flu that nobody’s worried about.
Estimated 34 million flu illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations, 20,000 deaths with 136 being children.

What is the current count in the US on the coronavirus, like 14 old people.
I don’t know guys I think we might be worried about the wrong one.

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Fl...568561001.html

Now imagine if Covid19 had been allowed to run rampant like the regular flu.

I'm not good at math but 20 x 20,000 is a big ol' number. And assuming hospitalizations at the same rate (which is a big assumption of course) you have 7,000,000 hospitalizations... in a country with 790-something thousand hospital beds. THAT is the real problem and why so much has been dumped into trying to prevent the spread.

In short, if you are a healthy young person and get it you are probably going to be alright but if the number of people even close to the number catch it who catch the flu (on top of the people who get the vanilla flu!) then shit is going to get really, really, really, real.