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Coronavirus

Coronavirus has mutated into a more aggressive strain, scientists find
Scientists have identified two strains of the novel coronavirus causing infections, one more aggressive than the other, indicating that the disease has mutated at least once.

In a new study published as Britain was told to expect a pandemic, Chinese researchers suggest that after Covid-19 crossed into humans, the original strain evolved into a new type and both of these are now circulating.

Although further research is needed, the preliminary study, carried out at Peking University’s school of life sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, sheds some light on how the disease is evolving.

The researchers identified two strains, with the more aggressive accounting for 70 per cent of those they analysed and a less aggressive strain making up the rest.
 
Don't pull loved ones out of aged care: Hunt

The federal government says families should not pull their loved ones out of nursing homes despite a staff walk-out at one centre after a woman died from coronavirus.

Health Minister Greg Hunt says nursing homes are still the safest place for elderly Australians who need care, despite fears about how many could die if the virus takes hold in aged-care facilities with poor infection controls.

Australia's coronavirus death toll now stands at two, after a 95-year-old woman died following contact with an infected aged-care worker at Sydney's Dorothy Henderson Lodge.

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Not sure whether this is sound advice. Nursing home, prison, hospital are three places I definitely wouldn't want to be.
Agree, the flu spreads very easily in nursing homes, and kills many people each year.
 
Sporting events in Italy & Japan going ahead but in empty stadiums due to the virus.
Victorian Minister for Sports Martin Pakula was on radio yesterday & did not rule it out happening here too if the virus takes hold.
Would be hard to imagine.

Starting to feel like a real possibility
 
I'm pretty sure I know which one is the bigger worldwide killer out of the flu and the current virus du jour.
 
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Childcare centre in NSW shut down now on top of the situation in the Aged Care facility which was across the road.
Those NSW Health officials look very concerned & under extreme pressure.
I've got a bad feeling we're about to see a massive spike in numbers.
 
I've got a bad feeling we're about to see a massive spike in numbers.

I don't do disease or medicine; I do numbers, and they suggest global combustion is near. Overnight:

India +22 => 29
Sweden +22 => 52
UK +36 => 87
Switzerland +35 => 93
US +35 => 159
Spain +63 => 228
Germany +59 => 262
France +73 => 285
Japan +38 => 331 (after a lull)

This isn't the true picture, since the virus has up to 14 days' headstart on the bean counters. People are arriving from all these countries and undoubtedly spreading the disease in Australia. It's just a question of when it takes off.

None of which is intended to incite alarm. Just be aware that if/when you get it, you will be required by the government to isolate yourself for 14 days (unless requiring hospitalisation). Be prepared.
 
That article I posted earlier from the Chinese doctor who talked about immune system meltdown seems accurate, given the latest news that the immune system overreacts and causes permanent lung damage (or death) in some patients.

This ain't the flu.
 
Wouldn't imagine you'd get very good bang for buck, posting bulky items like that internationally.
Someone would have twenty nuffers lined up at supermarkets bulk buying for them n then sending shipping containers. Half full of powdered baby formula n half delicate soft premium grade arse wipe.
 
The world has officially gone mad and the population is officially nuts.

I just went to buy dunny paper, merely because I wiped my arse on the Byron Echo real estate section this morning - I'm out.

and ITS BEING RATIONED.

yep 4 rolls per person.

I checked the Oats, Rice, Matches, Rum, Chick Peas, Panadol and no rationing; stockpile as much as you want

but its dunny paper there's a run on.

# Note; In the event of prologued quarantine and general apocalypse conditions and you find yourself with an unbearably dirty arse and you have no grass or water, you can PM me and I can mail you a roll of paper towels (which were unrationed and I bought a uteload of) at just $125.50 per roll

hey, whatever happened to that revolution that seemed to be winning in Hong Kong? was that about access to global dunny paper stocks?

A virus coneniently managed to arrive and put paid to all the protests and the expected escalation of them by the look of it
 
Tickets purchased for the match in Shanghai will be refunded.

The Sunday slot was preferred over the option of a Monday match in round 11. There will now be eight matches played in round 11 and seven matches in round 12.

As a result, the Saints will play nine of their first 11 matches at Marvel Stadium and 15 across the entire season.

9 of 11 at the Dump. Compared to what we copped via the media, any oppo moron wanna make a whinge?? Pricky...you there?


Yep 9 of first 11 at home .......................................................

Everyone can GAGF.
 
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Someone would have twenty nuffers lined up at supermarkets bulk buying for them n then sending shipping containers. Half full of powdered baby formula n half delicate soft premium grade arse wipe.

Yep and Nappies as well.

Emptying the shelves in Chemist warehouse is another part of the business.

Australia is fast becoming the Woolies for China.
 
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All schools closed in the UAE for 4 weeks. My company has already started developing a work from home policy that will be enforced shortly.
 
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My company has already started developing a work from home policy that will be enforced shortly.
That could be fun. Not sure my neighbours would be overly impressed with a couple of filthy forty tonne excavators parked in my front yard n me rummaging around with the garden hose, broom n a bucket of sudsy water though.
 
The WHO and the UN are the last two organisations I'd be taking advice from.
That could be fun. Not sure my neighbours would be overly impressed with a couple of filthy forty tonne excavators parked in my front yard n me rummaging around with the garden hose, broom n a bucket of sudsy water though.

They might enjoy it if you do it in a Daisy Duke outfit Masso :))
 
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