Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Why not agree to downgrade the economy for the time of the crisis and direct the excess manpower to helping with its cause?

As I recall, your country adopted a related approach from about 1945 to 1990. How did it work out?

I do not understand why you think it is better for most everyone to stay locked down rather than those who are at risk.

There is no way to "downgrade" the economy for months and then expect it to just go back to normal instead of it collapsing. Power plants need paying customers. Farmers need paying customers. Billions of people with no income can not also be paying customers.

You are expressing a true socialist pipedream attitude.

"All people care about is money!" Um yeah because that is what provides them with food, clothing and shelter.

Time to bring back drive in movie theater’s.Bring your own food,beverages,smoke and a jug to whiz in and you’re all set.

Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak — is finally beginning to loosen its two-month lockdown on residents, as other countries batten down the hatches, according to a new report.

For the first time in weeks, the city appeared to slowly come back to life, with small groups of residents leaving their homes, walking the streets and shopping at grocery stores, the Guardian reported.

Over the weekend, the first train arrived, allowing more than 1,000 workers to travel from elsewhere in Hubei province to Wuhan for work, according to the report.

Authorities said Sunday that residents are all clear to return to work if they do not have a temperature and can provide a green health code, indicating their virus-free status, in addition to their employers’ signatures.

Non-residents who were stranded in the city since stringent travel restrictions were enacted in late January can also begin applying to leave, according to the report.

Residents told the Guardian that only occupants of compounds deemed virus-free are allowed to leave.

“Everyone is being very careful,” said Iris Yao, 40, who has been in the city for the duration of the lockdown.

Meanwhile, traffic jams in China’s capital, Beijing, on Monday were a sign that life was returning to normal, the outlet reported.

China saw 39 new COVID-19 cases on Monday — but all were imported from other countries, according to its National Health Commission. Now the nation has turned its attention to preventing imported cases — with officials ordering Sunday that all international flights to Beijing be diverted to other cities where passengers will be screened before entering the capital.

Shanghai and Guangzhou have both said they will start to test international arrivals for the deadly bug.

One of the first congressman infected with the novel coronavirus says it hit him “like a ton of bricks” — with the “tricky bug” constantly returning whenever he thinks he is recovering.

Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who announced his infection Wednesday along with fellow representative Ben McAdams, said his sickness started with an “absolutely splitting headache” Saturday night.

“Luckily I have not had an issue breathing so I’ve never had a scary moment,” he told his older brother, NBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart.

“But obviously very very unpleasant with headaches, with coughing and with intense fever all coming at the same time, it seems.”

Although he started Saturday’s interview with his brother saying he was feeling better, he conceded it might not stay that way.

“It’s a tricky bug because just when I thought I was over it — or I was pretty close to getting over it — the fever will come back,” he told NBC.

“But … not as bad as it was originally, and I think hopefully the worst is passed.”

Former Olympic gold medallist Cameron van der Burgh, who revealed he has Covid-19 on Sunday, has issued a warning about the impact that coronavirus can have on the body.

South Africa's 2012 Olympic 100-metre breaststroke champion said he has "been struggling with Covid-19 for 14 days".

"By far the worst virus I have ever endured despite being a healthy individual with strong lungs (no smoking/sport), living a healthy lifestyle and being young (least at risk demographic)," the 31-year-old tweeted.

"The loss in body conditioning has been immense and (I) can only feel for the athletes that contract Covid-19 as they will suffer a great loss of current conditioning through the last training cycle.

"Infection closer to competition (would be) the worst," added Van der Burgh, who has worked as an oil analyst in London since retiring in 2018.

Van der Burgh, who also won four Commonwealth golds, has described how he was affected by coronavirus, which has now reached over 40 countries in Africa.

Although the most severe symptoms (extreme fever) have eased, I am still struggling with serious fatigue and a residual cough that I can't shake," said the six-time world champion.

"Any physical activity like walking leaves me exhausted for hours."

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time

"Do you notice something weird about this list of countries? Outside of China and Iran, which have suffered massive, undeniable outbreaks, and Brazil and Malaysia, every single country in this list is among the wealthiest in the world.
Do you think this virus targets rich countries? Or is it more likely that rich countries are better able to identify the virus?"

That's what I've been saying for a long time, but some idiot tried to argue with me that Africa is safe because of their warm weather. And then tried to imply that their governments can't suppress the real data. Yeah, right... let's all pretend that Russia hasn't done that, and that many countries don't have a long history of doing that. Don't bother picking up a history book when you can get your information from viral posts on social media.

Well, people from rich countries travel more.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time

"Do you notice something weird about this list of countries? Outside of China and Iran, which have suffered massive, undeniable outbreaks, and Brazil and Malaysia, every single country in this list is among the wealthiest in the world.
Do you think this virus targets rich countries? Or is it more likely that rich countries are better able to identify the virus?"

That's what I've been saying for a long time, but some idiot tried to argue with me that Africa is safe because of their warm weather. And then tried to imply that their governments can't suppress the real data. Yeah, right... let's all pretend that Russia hasn't done that, and that many countries don't have a long history of doing that. Don't bother picking up a history book when you can get your information from viral posts on social media.

Thanks for that: an interesting read, simultaneously both alarming and heartening.

Thanks for reading. I'm not good at analysing data but I think it backs up some of the arguments that eikonabridge has been trying to make.