Rossgo wrote:So many people were walking around the airport and on the plane wore those face masks, but what made me chuckle was when they all eat or drunk something in a big restaurant full of other strange people, they all came straight off ...
I take on board what you're saying Rossgo, but it goes deeper than that.: I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who is aware that the hand basins in Mens toilets don't get used by a worrying proportion ?
Worse still, for the last year or so I've been in the unfortunate position of making very frequent visits to hospital. There are multiple hand washing facilities at every entrance & exit to every ward & every communal area and main entrance or exit from the buildings. These are there for a very good reason, and we all know about MRSA outbreaks etc.
I personally use those facilities whenever I enter and leave any ward as well as the hospital itself.
I almost never see anyone else using them.!!
So, with ^ that sort of mentality being so prevalent, we probably are indeed "
all doomed".
Nonetheless I suspect that fear about the Coronavirus is less warranted. This latest media firestorm has caught the public's attention, but I doubt this will be the one to threaten humanity.:
The longer the infectious incubation period, and the higher the mortality rate, the greatest threat a virus would be (according to WHO). Yet AIDS has had little effect on population levels. Ebola is terrifying, but it's symptoms are evident almost as soon as it becomes infectious, so once again it has had little impact globally.
So the chances are that any virus that we should be concerned about will probably spread globally without symptoms, and then hit with a high mortality rate after that delayed incubation period. ( or as in Dan Brown's Inferno).
We may already all be carriers.
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