The Virus Outbreak Thread

How do I tell if I have the virus or not?

@Background Pony #23D8  
You Google the symptoms.

If I don’t have a fever then I am fine right?

@Background Pony #23D8  
I mean, you can technically still be infected without symptoms or a fever at first, but I doubt you have it since you’re American.

Leaks and video from inside China suggest Coronavirus death toll is potentially much higher than China is reporting.

@Egil  
I lost all respect for WHO back when that idiot representing it treated China like his master.

I had a dream where the cure had fucked up effects on children than nukes happened. I think I’m a little stressed out by this.

@MagpulPony  
So the death rate could be as high as 50%?
 
@Egil  
@MagpulPony  
At this point China is Gleemax except as a conspiracy

@Wiimeiser  
Due to China’s bad environment.

@Wiimeiser  
China is not capable of handling this situation.

@MagpulPony  
They’re an outlier that people are treating as the norm.

@Meanlucario  
They’re losing control (if not already lost it) in their country but have been too prideful to allow WHO inside to help until yesterday and they’ve denied access to CDC despite them widely considered to be the best in the world at this kind of thing. China is putting their politics over their people and 1,000 people (according to them) are already dead because of it.

This is really scaring the living fuck out of me, This outbreak has left me paranoid.

@Typhoon2000  
As long as you don’t live in China and are healthy, it shouldn’t be much worst than a cold.

@Meanlucario  
If people are treating this like the Black Plague, Then it’s quite obvious that something is REALLY fucking wrong.

@Typhoon2000  
That’s due to it’s origins being an outlier, something that people are forgetting. It’s like thinking all orphanages are sweatshops because the ones in the city that they first appeared in uses them for child labor. If it started elsewhere, the numbers would be much lower since most areas are better suited for surviving this than China.

@Typhoon2000  
If you’re in the United States you’re pretty much fine even if you get it. Which is still extremely unlikely.

@MagpulPony  
This virus could ruin pretty much every country imaginable.

@Typhoon2000  
Did you read what he said?

@Typhoon2000  
Ebola has a way higher death rate than Corona and we didn’t allow a single American that had it to die during the 2014 outbreak.

maybe he’s talking about what it could do to the flow of goods into other countries. I just read the other day that America at least gets 90% of it’s prescription drugs from China.

@Rod Hungwell  
What isn’t from China in the USA?

@Meanlucario  
Weapons, military equipment, cyber tech, cars, but mostly things that are vital to maintaining military dominance.

@Rod Hungwell  
And yes. Big PHARMA is a disgustingly corrupted entity on many levels.