This movie is becoming reality... - Contagion (2011) Discussion

[–] bozo_500 (13129) 5 years ago

I read it was something to do with bats now

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[–] Rorikon (17885) 5 years ago

It was believed to be exotic snakes and now it seems to be fruit bats. Memes are being posted of soup bats where there is a dead bat in a vat of soup they drink from. Frankly I am hoping it spreads and mutates where it helps clean up civilization up a bit. Then there will be less hate around the world. :3

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[–] JohnnyDoe (1884) 5 years ago

Are you sure it's the bad seeds that will perish?

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[–] bozo_500 (13129) 5 years ago

Now they saying its https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronavirus-pangolins-may-have-spread-the-disease-to-humans

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

This is exciting. Can’t wait till it goes global

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[–] Xcalat3 (3748) 5 years ago

This virus doesn't seem very deadly so unless it mutates it will be on par with the SARS epidemic 15 years ago so no Global Pandemic.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

It's already begun mutating based on RNA comparisons from the first known person affected and some of the later ones. So the only question is whether it will become more or less dangerous as it mutates. The world was lucky with SARS as it never mutated into a bigger problem. This coronavirus is already worse than SARS in that it is more easily transmitted than SARS was. So even though the Wuhan-virus isn't as fatal as SARS it is more easily transmitted. That means it could easily end up killing many more people than SARS simply because it will be caught by more people. At present it is 2% mortality rate which means if they cannot come up with a vaccine you would easily end up with 150 million people dead from it.

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[–] Xcalat3 (3748) 5 years ago

Well if the mortality rate stays at around 2% there's no way way 150 Million people will die, that would mean that every man woman and child on earth would be infected and that is Impossible.

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[–] JohnnyDoe (1884) 5 years ago

isn't it 3%?

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I've seen 1%, 2% and 3%... I used 2% to just be in the middle of what has been thrown out there so far. Until you get more data on it you can't be for certain. Hell it is possible that it is more or less fatal to people from China than it will be to people from Europe or Africa, too early to say a lot about how it impacts people.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

completely possible if they don't develop a vaccine and they continue to allow air travel in and out of areas where it is. The virus is much easier to catch than most so it isn't out of the question.

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[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

Why is it impossible for everyone to get infected at some point in their lives?
We all get colds, don't we? The common cold virus is also one of the Corona viruses.

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[–] mrbnk (419) 5 years ago

That's probably right. Now that it's here, the virus is here to stay. As far as i know, once you have a virus in your body, you have it for life.

I read somewhere that anytime you catch a cold, it's because of a different strand of the cold virus. If your spouse catches a cold this winter and you don't, they say it's because you had that variation of the virus before and your body knows how to handle it.

So, until a vaccine is produced so we can introduce a weak version of the virus to our bodies, i think our best bet is to slow it down as much as possible, and try to avoid passing it on to elderly and people susceptible to respiratory illnesses.

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[–] Satan2016 (25539) 5 years ago

Mortality is 2-3%. That means 150-230M deaths if everyone catches it.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

That would help out a lot

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[–] JohnnyDoe (1884) 5 years ago

...help how?

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Thinning out the population

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[–] JohnnyDoe (1884) 5 years ago

150-230M of 7750M?

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[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

In Italy, the death rate is 8%, so that means 600 million dead.

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[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

It's close to 10% now.

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[–] B1cKsurN (17454) 5 years ago

A lot can change in 2 weeks...

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[–] darkpast (8738) 5 years ago

be safe

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[–] Bripod75 (106) 5 years ago

This 2 month old post is an eerie reality how things turned to shit so quickly.
Right now I’m possibly the only one in my town not affected by this airborne virus however my supplies are running low and I will have to leave my bomb shelter soon. Stay safe everyone.

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[–] footlegger (1462) 5 years ago

At least you have a bomb shelter.

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[–] L1 (1316) 5 years ago

The media they way they are they would be hanging out the hospital day and night, but that's not.

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