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Lion_Party 9 points ago +14 / -5

So, IMO, which isn't scientific, but just aware of China....This has been going on for longer and is about 20 times as big as they are telling us. It's too late to contain any of it, and it's most likely all over the world now. If I was in a country like India or Japan where you are all crowded in big cities, I'd be worried.

The only good thing is that it won't kill Americans (in America) Ex: see all these other virus' we cure instantly when people come over for treatment, It aso isn't as deadly as the others were apparently.

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Belleoffreedom 10 points ago +10 / -0

Bear in mind that they might be underreporting numbers of deaths.

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TheNakedAmbassador 9 points ago +9 / -0

Definitely, their response doesn't seem proportional to 41 deaths.

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ChrisTheSoberITGuy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Different flu strain appears, like it does every year

Quarantine a city of 18 million

City happens to have a pathogen research lab

HMMMMMmmmmmm....

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OhLollyLollyPop 1 point ago +1 / -0

They have over half the country quarantined now. That's the best way to get containment.

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AwakeAwareNow 1 point ago +1 / -0

They coverup. FOR SURE.

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Tellman125 5 points ago +5 / -0

The table in this article says that 0 Americans died from SARS (and this virus is 70% similar to that one, according to the article about it, which I've linked in another comment here), but then the map down the page says that 4 people did -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome#History

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TopKeksWithFrens [S] 1 point ago +2 / -1

The thing most people forget about SARS is it happened in 2003 and there was not the kind of international travel to and from China like there is today. Populations were also more isolated as they hadn't really started shipping people into cities and the people lived a bit more in rural areas

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DanIsSwell 2 points ago +2 / -0

Plus, these things normally only kill people who are in weak health. Like, newborns and old people. This new one is killing medical staff.

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Sumarongi 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ehh... there was plenty of air travel, international and domestic, in china the early 2000’s

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TopKeksWithFrens [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

To the same extent?