tejasshetty.1808 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2020, 15:07
In india it seems like it just on the way to become as worse as italy
Some Italian scientists try to blame Germany for the Italian outbreak. Especially one German based company that produces car-parts. But the company itself says there have been no visits from employees in the named time frame at all (Mid Jan to start of Feb)
And some countries claim that the officially given rate of German deaths due to Corona cannot be true since they are - seen by infected and dead - are way less than the average 1%.
So, madness and blaming others all around.
Ed_P wrote: ↑16 Mar 2020, 22:24
And in addition to people stocking up on essentials some are buying all they can get and selling it on Amazon for outlandish prices and what's more shocking, people are buying it.
Absolutely amazing what's going on, here and around the world.
Indeed, in a crisis often the worst and the best in humans comes to light.
Here in Germany there are local groups forming to volunteer, e.g. buying food for elderly so that the most affected by Corona not need to expose themselves more than needed to larger crowds.
So, I am sure when you look closely you also would find good behaviour in this crisis in your local area, not only madness and greed.
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Anyhow, what is with the Flatten the curve?
Maybe you already know, so I only explain it when the need is there. Please reply here and ask me doing so if you need the info.
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Another fact I found by listening to a podcast of a
Berlin Charité professor and virologist. He talked about the study they made about how long Corona virus can survive on surfaces e.g. on door handles of metal and plastic.
He criticized the study saying it not specifies how large the liquid was they applied; E.g. when they applied a large amount it could take days to dry out.
Also he said they not specified the amount of virus particles still infectious, e.g. when it starts with one million particles and after 2 days, there are a mere 10 left, then technically, after 2 days the area is still infectious, but you can hardly get an infection when there are only 10 viruses left, since when you touch the area, only parts of the 10 are transported to your skin, and the way our skin works, some virus are killed right away when they meet our skin, so, in the end only one or 2 viruses out of 10 would survive, and these are not enough to infect any of us.
So, that was a good 10 minutes spend listening to that podcast. (It is only available in German, and I only listened to the beginning part where he explained the flaws in that study)
And of course all media outlets who reported on that matter have not been critical towards the study at all, going more along the way that "bad news sells better" than "good science is better in a crisis".