Destroying organic material is never a problem bleach will do it an autoclave will do it. The problem with ingesting poisons is that they will kill you as well as a virus.
Apparently Tencent (who is tracking the official numbers for some reason) had the numbers at about 24,000 infected/400 dead a few days ago, but the numbers briefly jumped to about 157,000 infected/24,000 dead for a few moments before being corrected.
Supposedly it's the third time their tracker did that, and some people are beginning to speculate that those are the real numbers, and that the Chinese government is hiding it (if correct, the mortality rate would be much higher than the 2-3% currently reported, closer to 15-16%).
Granted, I understand there are lots of conspiracy theorists & alarmists out there, so I'm trying to keep a level head, but I get nervous whenever I see an article on a place like Yahoo showing that they've locked down Wuhan (and Beijing, as per an article I saw today) to the point of being ghost towns, and you can imagine why some would be skeptical that they would do that for a disease with a 97-98% survival rate.
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@RogerRoger, while I do agree it was probably a glitch, the real infection number and the glitched death total weren't exactly the same (just in the same ballpark).
I just hope they're able to slow it well enough until a vaccine is completed, or at least until they learn it well enough to put in place more effective treatments.
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@RR529 In general, the sensationalized news items the media likes to scare people with are usually much less of a threat than far more mundane realities. Considering the 30,000+ people killed by the flu in 2018 - 2019 in the United States, for example, I'd say you're far more likely to perish from something like that. Do you drive, or get driven places? Because tens of thousands more people die in vehicle accidents each year in the U.S. than die of the flu. How's your heart health? Because heart disease slays roughly 647,000 people in the U.S. every year, and heart attack victims have about a 14% mortality rate.
Rape isn't uncommon, but it's much more likely to be someone a person knows and trusts than a random stranger. You're far more likely to be targeted by home-grown nuts than Islamic radicals (although the possibility of being killed in a mass shooting or terror attack is also exceedingly slim; and I say that as someone who was very nearly deeply affected by the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting).
Yet I don't see a ton of people fretting about the possibility of white supremacist terror attacks, heart disease, or riding in cars in my day to day life.
Rest easy. While the world has devised millions of devious ways to rob you of your life, unless you've traveled to China recently, it's really unlikely to be the coronavirus.
As for a vaccine, even if it is produced at an unprecedented speed, it could still be 6 months or so. And as a virus, it could mutate enough to render it fairly useless anyway. The normal flu vaccine is just a best guess of which strains are likely to be the most prevalent that year so a different strain coming to the fore or a mutation can make it a bit pointless (but still important for the groups it is aimed at).
Indeed, the fear of zombie attacks is high. That doesn't mean a zombie attack is going to happen. But, it's right to be fearful of a zombie attack because...zombies are bloody scary. More scary than crossing a road.
So by all means be more fearful of Coronavirus killing you than a heart attack, even if it's less likely
It's time to panic folks. The Corona virus might delay production of the next gen consoles. That is real life hardship all rolled up in a ball for you.
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@Th3solution There were like it way before the virus broke out, I think they they are still trying to get a few things working and nailed before spilling their load. And waiting to see what MS are doing.
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@kyleforrester87 I have a cold and I had a chest infection like 3 weeks ago. Everyone is coughing in my office. I have decided to burn the place down, just to make sure.
On the plus side, I have been working out what my 2 week quarantine games would be if I were isolated for 2 weeks. I am thinking I might try and tackle Ocarina of time on the 3DS or possibly Diablo 3 on Switch.
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Apparently in the UK, Chinese Takeaway orders have declined massively, I forgot where I read this but I could not think of a more 2020 solution to a potential worldwide pandemic.
@kyleforrester87 I have a cold and I had a chest infection like 3 weeks ago. Everyone is coughing in my office. I have decided to burn the place down, just to make sure.
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