Coronavirus

[Ron Mexico]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ce4d909ecf8a69e9&regi_id=77037544tion=topNews


Good article about the danger of this virus and how it compares to other stuff. NY times has had pet good coverage of this stuff. They have had a reporting crew in Wuhan until recently.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Small info regarding the temperature and survival of the virus:
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-too-hot-virus
For those who are not in Cambodia - use finnish/scandinavian/russian style sauna as much as possible. Well, once a week sauna in general is good for health.
Is it easy to find and enjoy hot sauna in Salt Lake City or in Utah for a reasonable price a la 10-20 USD for 2-3 hours?
How common or uncommon is to have a small personal inhouse sauna if you live in Utah?

I would not trust that information from Cambodia. This was true of SARS. The island I am on didn't get SARS for that reason. But it's getting this. Scientists are saying this is not killed off by the heat.

 

[Agent#00]

Looks like work is back to normal on Feb. 10. My coworkers would rather go to work than stay at home all day doing nothing

 

[lauriandres]

I would not trust that information from Cambodia. This was true of SARS. The island I am on didn't get SARS for that reason. But it's getting this. Scientists are saying this is not killed off by the heat.

Maybe not +35 degrees Celsius, but history and personal experience has shown, that regular use of warm sauna (+80 degrees celsius and above) helps to keep all kinds of flu like viruses away.
I guess that all kind of coronary viruses are not as common in Miami or near the coast of Mediterranean sea (Italy, Croatia, southern france, Egypt) compared to New York or Alaska or Northern Europe?

 

[Ron Mexico]

China is doing a decent job of trying to contain this. I wish they would accurately report the information though especially the local agencies instead of worrying how it makes them look.

You can condemn China for keeping live animals in markets that lead to this like bats. But if you do that you should also condemn places that eat pigs that are much much much bigger problem for viruses around the world and much more deadly and contagious virus have come from them. Including much worse outbreaks from the USA than this one. We in the USA are much better educated on this stuff yet not doing a better job either.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Maybe not +35 degrees Celsius, but history and personal experience has shown, that regular use of warm sauna (+80 degrees celsius and above) helps to keep all kinds of flu like viruses away.
I guess that all kind of coronary viruses are not as common in Miami or near the coast of Mediterranean sea (Italy, Croatia, southern france, Egypt) compared to New York or Alaska or Northern Europe?

Flu is definitely worse in cold weather places. But flu can hit warm areas depending on the strand.

 

[Ron Mexico]

The Chinese red Cross has been doing some really shady stuff. People are really upset about it here. Despite the fact there is a lot of corruption in China, Chinese people get really outraged about that stuff.

 

[Miggs]

The Chinese red Cross has been doing some really shady stuff. People are really upset about it here. Despite the fact there is a lot of corruption in China, Chinese people get really outraged about that stuff.

what r they doing

 

[Ron Mexico]

what r they doing

Vegetables are in shortage in wuhan and they were donated to the red Cross there. The red Cross then sold them to the people on wuhan. The one that got people really mad is that they are running out of masks even for hospital employees and the red Cross there was shown to be giving boxes of them to high up local government employees out the back door.

 

[Archie Moses]

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.


Don't get me wrong, I understand the what the Tweet from the school means. I don't understand how a school like UC Berkeley (or department or whoever it was) wouldn't actually know that tweeting that **** would cause some backlash. You're at UC Berkeley. What the hell are you thinking?

 

[Ron Mexico]

So the city I'm in has decided to shut everything down. Public gatherings are banned. All restaurants are shut down you can only order to go. All the bars, pool halls, mahjong places or anything like it are shut down. They have trucks driving around saying a bunch of stuff like no gatherings, wash your hands, don't spread false rumors, and other stuff.

My hotel has mahjong tables in it. Last night the police raided our hotel with like 20 cops and went room by room checking to see if anyone had gatherings to play mahjong. We were playing and got told to stop and a warning. The cops were quite shocked to see a group of foreigners playing though! They started taking pictures, it was funny.

 

[Rubashov]

So the city I'm in has decided to shut everything down. Public gatherings are banned. All restaurants are shut down you can only order to go. All the bars, pool halls, mahjong places or anything like it are shut down. They have trucks driving around saying a bunch of stuff like no gatherings, wash your hands, don't spread false rumors, and other stuff.

My hotel has mahjong tables in it. Last night the police raided our hotel with like 20 cops and went room by room checking to see if anyone had gatherings to play mahjong. We were playing and got told to stop and a warning. The cops were quite shocked to see a group of foreigners playing though! They started taking pictures, it was funny.

Are the opium dens still open?