Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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335 cases now here in Luxembourg and most everything that isn't a pharmacy, grocery store or fuel station is closed.

https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1486096.html

https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1486123.html

And even then, you can only enter the supermarket one by one, resulting in long waiting lines:

https://www.rtl.lu/news/national/a/1485479.html

konnichiwa said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=6WME87A3FqY&feature=emb_logo

Big brother Germany is informing their candidates about the virus (because most have been locked up in the game before it started in Europe).

Surreal telivision.

The Big Brother House is probably the safest place to be right now as nobody enters from the outside

SvennoJ said:

SpokenTruth said:

How do we inoculate anyone tomorrow without a vaccine yet?

He means infected, assuming everyone under 20 only gets mild symptoms and will be cured in a few days while building up immunity. The incubation period is on average 5 days.

In the resulting models, estimated median incubation time (IT) of COVID-19 was 5.1 days; mean IT was 5.5 days. For 97.5% of infected persons, symptoms appear by 11.5 days. Fewer than 2.5% are symptomatic within 2.2 days. Estimated median IT to fever was 5.7 days. Among 108 patients diagnosed outside mainland China, median IT was 5.5 days; the 73 patients diagnosed inside China had a median IT of 4.8 days. Using exposures designated as high risk and a 7-day monitoring period, the estimate for missed cases was 21.2 per 10,000. After 14 days, the estimated number of missed high-risk cases was 1 per 10,000 patients.
https://www.jwatch.org/na51083/2020/03/13/covid-19-incubation-period-update

Then the question is, how long are you contagious with asymptomatic symptoms.

“Everything that we have seen so far verifies the experience in China. Once you acquire the illness, you may be infectious to other people for up to 14 days. Now, those who are asymptomatic may not know when Day 1 starts to start counting to Day 14. But it's encouraging to know that while asymptomatic individuals can get sick, their ability to spread the disease is far less than those who are actively symptomatic, who have secretions, who are coughing, who can take this virus and spread it around to other people.”

Thus if you infect people that are asymptomatic (and know day 1), you still need to keep them isolated for 2 weeks.

That's while still in the dark whether immunity really works (reports of people getting it again or it flaring up again pop up here and there) and whether there are any long lasting effects.

https://www.healthing.ca/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus/can-you-have-covid-19-twice

Too many questions to fool around with any crazy schemes.

This is the main problem with the herd immunity concept. And if the virus were to mutate, then the immunity would be gone anyway. No wonder the UK changed it's policy to isolation and mitigation now, too.