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On April 08 2020 00:53 Mohdoo wrote:
I'm still of the belief that there are a couple slightly different mutations of covid out there right now and that it is part of the reason we are seeing so much variability. I'm looking very forward to a year or so from now when we fully understand this unique little virus.

On April 08 2020 02:27 Alakaslam wrote:
SARS-CoV 2 anyone? This is severe acute respiratory syndrome, different mutation so bears distinction but seriously folks. Co-vid-nine-teen 4 syllables. SARS-two 2 syllables.

Why do people pick the dumbest things to call stuff and stick with it like dead hands gripping a spoon? I mean, at least this current name is better than coronavirus like co-ro-na-vi-rus we went from 5 to 4.

Let’s cut it in half.

But maybe I am just our local troll.

Stay home folks.

On April 08 2020 01:55 LegalLord wrote:
So over the last couple of days, I've been looking at the Worldometers page on the virus to try to get a sense of when we're going to start to lift the lockdown measures. If China is an indication, where lockdowns started in late January and are starting to end now, a little over two months later, we're in this until about early-to-mid May.

But... I don't really think China is a great indicator. When comparing China's data to Italy, Spain, or any other of the countries with a large exponential rise in case loads, it just doesn't look the same. China has a lockdown, a week of rapid growth, a change in methodology causing a sharp rise in cases, then it just stops. Whereas in Italy, after four weeks it looks like the trend is not so favorable. It seems to have stopped growing exponentially pretty much right when they implemented the lockdown, but even as it slows it looks like every day there's a large increase in cases. Whether this is due to uncharacteristically effective lockdown measures in China or something else, I expect the world to be more like Italy than like China.

If the lockdown stops, it probably goes right back to exponential growth from whatever number of cases there already are, unless the case load is so low as to be able to isolate all known infected individuals (several thousand at most). So you not only have to wait for the curve to flatten, but also for most of the infected to recover. The frightening thing is that it doesn't look like Italy is even quite at the point where more people recover than get sick, four weeks after locking things down. It's getting there, but much slower than China.

Probably at least another month for Italy's case load to really start to thin out, and it's ahead of everyone else in how far this has played out. The big "hopeful" narrative right now seems to be that this will be over by the end of April; watching where Italy is going that just doesn't sound likely.

On April 08 2020 02:15 Firebolt145 wrote:

There are already two known strains, an 'L' strain and an 'S' strain. I can't remember which way round but one is more dangerous, whereas the other is more likely to spread. The last I read, the more dangerous one was contained in China, whereas it's the other that has spread all over the world.

On April 08 2020 02:27 Alakaslam wrote:
SARS-CoV 2 anyone? This is severe acute respiratory syndrome, different mutation so bears distinction but seriously folks. Co-vid-nine-teen 4 syllables. SARS-two 2 syllables.

Why do people pick the dumbest things to call stuff and stick with it like dead hands gripping a spoon? I mean, at least this current name is better than coronavirus like co-ro-na-vi-rus we went from 5 to 4.

Let’s cut it in half.

But maybe I am just our local troll.

Stay home folks.

On April 08 2020 03:57 opterown wrote:

I think this was debunked at poor research

http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-continuing-evolution-of-sars-cov-2/418

On April 08 2020 05:51 Mohdoo wrote:
As I currently understand, we have no idea why some 90 year olds survive corona in a week and some healthy people in their 20s die. That seems super weird. What are people's thoughts?

On April 08 2020 05:54 Nouar wrote:

Variance in immune systems, pre-existing conditions, different DNA that may or may not have more receivers for the virus. A varying virus load between indivicuals. What answer are you looking for ?

Against all illnesses, different humans have different chances to react differently. Is that surprising ?

On April 08 2020 06:00 Mohdoo wrote:


As an ignorant chemist, virus load, different DNA receivers are things that I didn't know about previously. My ignorant understand is: "Young people get sick = no problem; Old people get sick = gg" since immune systems get worse as you age, so I am not doubting so much as asking if people have any additional understanding or can offer any additional insights.