From:
slider@atashram.com
### - bit of an update on this virus now re a pandemic hanging on whether
or not it can be spread before or after any symptoms appear?
i.e., with something like sars (which was pretty deadly & highly
infectious) you couldn't infect someone else until 'after' you'd begun to
show symptoms yourself, that via the symptoms themselves was how it was
being spread (from coughing/sneezing whatever)
whereas they're wondering now if this latest one might just be spreading
long 'before' any symptoms appear, in which case anyone infected will be infecting many-many others long before they start getting ill themselves!
which, if true, could actually then become a problem, even though it
apparently (and at least so far) has a much lower fatality rate than sars
of around only 3 or 4% (sars was 20%)
i mean, the only way to contain a contagion of 'that' nature would be to literally lock down the whole planet as the only possible way of stopping 'everyone' from getting it! (3% of 8-billion is an awful lot!)
and, worryingly enough, that does indeed appear to be what many countries
are all now doing!
(they's not tellin' us much but their actions suggests it's pandemic material...)
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