There are a loads of different variants on coronavirus, the common cold being one of them - every one of us has had a version of the coronavirus countless times already. The Wuhan outbreak is just a new strain.
Thanks for that. It's about time it had it's own name, then, like Wuhan Flu or Pangolinitis so that we know what we're talking about.
I have heard it being called 'Kung Flu', but no doubt the uber pc types, like the BBC will struggle with that.
Not sure I agree with you Winterbourne. Making light of the truly awful is part of our coping mechanism; not a single life will be saved by our going around with long faces. On the contrary, levity stops the subject from becoming taboo and keeps the issue alive and the dangers and the dead in our minds, too. None of this implies any disrespect for those who have died or are going to die. My forum name and picture, for example is the closest thing that exists in Breton folklore to our notion of "The Grim Reaper". My choosing that name implies no disrespect for all the dead. You're right. If the Kung flu hits Africa it'll be a disaster on the scale of the AIDS epidemic. The question is what can we do or are we prepared to do about it. Very little that I can think of, alas.
It made me wonder about the information about the disease that has been released so far; that it is comparable to a common cold or normal flu and only critical to the old and infirm. I know this doctor would have had far higher exposure to it than the average sufferer, but this should not have had any influence on its severity to a young healthy person.
Maybe he was "punished" for spilling the beans!
Dead men tell no tales.
It is comparable to the flu as it seems to spread at least roughly like it but flu kills under 0.01% of people who catch it of which nearly all have other serious conditions with it while this seems to kill at least 2%.
