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Posted: 6 years ago

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1240873896498196480

https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1240847414413660164


It's like watching a trainwreck in front of your eyes, or worse.


Please try to stay home as much as you can people, or at least make sure that anyone at your home who is above sixty or has pre-existing conditions does not go out.

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Posted: 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago

they r not insane...they r cunning and evil...they want to infect more people and want them to suffer as they are also infected.


in short, they are the people described in TDK, "Some people just want to watch the world burn"


this kind of people r getting opportunity becoz of govt negligence...they should have stopped international flights way earlier

Edited by WexQuasExort - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago

Originally posted by: WexQuasExort

they r not insane...they r cunning and evil...they want to infect more people and want them to suffer as they are also infected.


in short, they are the people described in TDK, "Some people just want to watch the world burn"


this kind of people r getting opportunity becoz of govt negligence...they should have stopped international flights way earlier

Bold: EXACTLY.

Honestly, more than cunning or evil I think these people are ridiculously ignorant, selfish and inconsiderate. If they have an okay immunity system then they event won't suffer much or anything due to this virus, but there are so many to whom this can be fatal.

The government obviously has been lacking a LOT, but it also high time that people take some f*cking responsibility. Flu or not, why can't people coming from abroad just act sensibility and stay home for a week at least rather than going to parties, weddings, and shopping malls.

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Posted: 6 years ago

Same happened in Jaipur. A couple landed in Jaipur despite knowing that they are suffering from corona virus. They came from Spain. They booked a hotel them went to hospital and proudly announced that they are patient of corona virus. They are now in isolation. I read this in newspaper.

God knows what is happening.

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Posted: 6 years ago

Stay Healthy Stay Safe. We should take this matter seriously.

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Posted: 6 years ago

Technical info ...



tThis is from an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University:

Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.

Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.

Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..

H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

Fast forward.

Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.

And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..

That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.

Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...

And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.

Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.

#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on. 🤓

Edited by Sutapasima - 6 years ago
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Posted: 6 years ago

Originally posted by: Vermilion

Same happened in Jaipur. A couple landed in Jaipur despite knowing that they are suffering from corona virus. They came from Spain. They booked a hotel them went to hospital and proudly announced that they are patient of corona virus. They are now in isolation. I read this in newspaper.

God knows what is happening.

I heard about that as well. These so-called 'educated' people. 😳









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY

^ Not new information, just explanation about the virus and how it works. This is one of my favorite channels on yt.

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