Are We Frightened?
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droid
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Smokers and ex-smokers are more critically affected, I think that's been proven. Nobody is sure yet why men are more likely to be badly hit.
It's particularly bad in italy due to there being so many old people and the virus being allowed to spread unchecked for so long.
Russia is probably in for a torrid time but I'd say the real numbers are being kept under wraps.
It's particularly bad in italy due to there being so many old people and the virus being allowed to spread unchecked for so long.
Russia is probably in for a torrid time but I'd say the real numbers are being kept under wraps.
luka
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Yeah quite possibly a load of countries are cooking the books. And it's possible warmer effect has an effect as many have speculated. But who knows really. Too early to say. We'll know more by the end of summer i guess. If we survive that long.
luka
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Well there's got to be a Wikipedia page on Chinese medicine or something. Can't you start with that and keep going?
Mr. Tea
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Yeah, there's fucking horrific air pollution in their cities, so I expect an awful lot of people who don't smoke have got awful lung problems, before you add tobacco (and probably much harsher/more additive-laden tobacco than you get over here) on top of that.
One sobering thing I read is that there could be a big net drop in overall mortality rates in China, because of the sudden drop in emission levels due to factories closing down and the reduction in traffic.
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luka
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But you might not know anyone expert in Chinese medicine.
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padraig (u.s.)
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I've been wondering this myself, and I agree with you that it's much too early to say with any certainty
but I'd guess things like: socioeconomic and possibly environmental factors, where countries are on the curve, random chance
and yeah many places (China, Iran, Russia, etc) probably cooking the books, now and/or going forward
Italy was the canary in the coal mine for (most of) the West in terms of response, has an old population, high % of smokers
it also took off first there in Lombardy which along with Campania are the mostly population parts of Italy by a pretty wide margin
padraig (u.s.)
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I've read that the authorities there have been extremely aggressive in terms of individual quarantine and case tracing
as they know that once they get to the point of widespread community transmission they will be completely fucked
150+ millions Indians don't have ready access to clean water, the first line of defense via handwashing etc
and they have some of the most densely populated urban slums on Earth, where social distancing will be virtually impossible
one imagines something like typhoid sweeping thru Dickensian slums
padraig (u.s.)
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the potential misery if/when this truly breaks out in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
or Sub-Saharan Africa
on top of whatever else people there may be dealing with
and very likely the countries that normally send aid will have their own problems (besides China, maybe, and even they can't help everything I'd think)
or Sub-Saharan Africa
on top of whatever else people there may be dealing with
and very likely the countries that normally send aid will have their own problems (besides China, maybe, and even they can't help everything I'd think)
pattycakes_
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Bad enough imagining the shit hitting the fan here in europe, and the US. But those huge developing nations are going to be in a serious mess
Yes, in bombay, they are marking people with the word ‘quarantine’ with indelible ink on their wrists. I guess its basic but effective. Eyebrow raising for the west.
Yeah its still slow in latin america, africa as well right. Interesting.
So its been an important animal for a long time across continents. Poor fuckers are the most trafficked thing apart from humans.
So its because of what the chinese have done with the trade, industrialised it, or in some other way changed it because whatever they used to do was no longer good enough?
Perhaps too simplistic.