Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Ka-pi96 said:

John2290 said:

It doesn't matter how small the percentage of a population that are carrier's of the virus for that long, it matters about how fucking long of a time that is. 24 days, even if it is only 1 in 1,000 is bonkers. That's close personal contact with enough people to cause exponential growth in itself. People downplaying this bit of news are the ones caught the propaganda to save face for the economy. Lets just hope that, by the luck of some higher deity, that the spread was held soon enough yet that looks very unlikely to be the case. 

Of course it matters. The lower the average incubation period, which I believe somebody mentioned was only 3 days, the less chance of it actually spreading. A few outliers does change that, yes, but not by anywhere near enough to be worried. Besides, you could also flip it the other way and say that if you're one of the people that it would take 24 days to incubate... well that's an extra 21ish days you've got over anybody else that picks up the disease for them to develop a cure before you even suffer any symptoms!

Besides, if you're that worried about it, just do the maths. Work out your chances of actually dying to this thing. After that work out your chances of dying on the way to work. I'm pretty sure you'll worry about the new corona virus much less then. You might not want to go to work anymore... but that's a different problem

The CDC considers the Incubation period to be between 2 and 14 days. 24 days are massively overblown: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html