The word corona predates the beer.

The black death (plague) killed around 40-60% of europes population back in the 1300's.
It was spread by flea's from differnt rodents, and animals.

It also came from Central/Eastern Asia, and spread up here.

Pandemics should be taken seriously, if there's cause to do so.
Theres potential for this one to kill millions, even if its mortality rate is only currently at 3%.
It just needs to spread enough or mutate.

Hahahaha I hadnt even thought of that.

Tbh its not a rather good beer though, like 19 out of 20 random German beers, would probably beat it in taste & price.
Whats even more amasing is that germans have strick rules about what is and isnt beer, so their not allowed to "cheat" by subtitueing things, or enhnace things via usage of chemmical means. Its just pure beer. 

Its like when you buy something and it tastes abit like Vanilla, and then you find out, its some exract from the glands near a beavers ass.
Euuuuewwwwwww.... I rather they use the "real" thing.

That's a common misconception. The Reinheitsgebot isn't a law. You can choose to stick to it, but you can also just ignore it without any consequences whatsoever. It's mostly a marketing gag.

First of all, mortality rate of 3% is pretty high, especially as the disease spreads that quickly. And if you got to that rate by dividing the 26 reported death by the 895 reported infections, than this is problematic, as these diseases are a case literally of the last days. Alone from yesterday to today the number of reported infections grew by 260 people. So these people are still ill, you can't calculate mortality rate until the persons have either died or recovered. And people newly fallen ill yesterday haven't recovered today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak

You don't need to be too concerned though yet, not because of mortality rate, but because it so far is restricted to a few countries and at this point emergency border checks are in place in many countries. Well, except you live in the countries in question. If despite that the illness will spread globally, than it starts to become more serious for other parts of the world too.

Well, there are some more general antivirals, although it might be hit or miss if they work on this specific virus. Also in cases of emergency labs can work directly on a solution and may be able to fix up something in weeks, depending on circumstances. Still this has to be produced afterwards and these emergency research is very costly.

My main takeaway from this is, that CNN managed to bring a reporter team to Wuhan before the city got quarantined yesterday.

Unless it's Kölsch, the only piss that's legally allowed to call itself beer. Can't even get drunk on that stuff!

Also, German breweries do cheat. The Reinheitsgebot for instance says Gerste (barley), not Malz (malt). But using the raw fruit is disallowed in German breweries these days. Also, they add zinc, since the yeast needs it badly, but not by adding a zinc salt, like the rest of the world does. Instead, they add it to the water supply or as water softener. They add milk acid bacteria as acidifier, which is much worse than what the rest of world does by adding a bit of some weak acid like phosphoric acid (

Believe me, that Brauer in my username is not there by accident...

This is the 3rd stat model to show how grossly undercounted the #nCoV2019 is. In this case:
- official reproductive number is 2.5, but this says it's actually 3.6 to 4.0
- only 5.1% of infections in #Wuhan are identified now.
(which would imply 11,680 cases now in China.) https://t.co/cmmiOupEA6

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 24, 2020

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/video-appears-to-show-bodies-covered-by-sheets-in-crowded-wuhan-hospital-hallway-1.4781995


Ok, I'm a little nervous. Undercounting cases as much as 10:1 is a little scary, and the fact that it can incubate for as much as 2 weeks and still spread coming out tells me this is going to get bad quick.

Also, this isn't going to calm frayed nerves:

https://www.businessinsider.com/scientist-simulated-coronavirus-pandemic-deaths-2020-1

I was never scared of the flu and I won't start now.