To be concerned about the new coronavirus?

[MissPoldark]

I’m increasingly alarmed by the developments on this. Today we learn that 1 hospitalised patient infected a number of healthcare workers and the first case has been confirmed in the US (a patient who had been to Wuhan).

There are 3 direct flights per week from Wuhan to London, it only seems like a matter of time
Shouldn’t these flights be temporarily suspended?

YANBU

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51185836
The WHO are sure to declare this an international emergency tomorrow.

Yanbu. Very concerning

My MIL and FIL are currently back home in Hong Kong. I am concerned about them but they don’t seem concerned at all.

An American in Seattle has it.

Having travelled back from Wuhan on Jan 15th.

Let’s hope he hasn’t infected anyone else in those 6 days

I wait to be corrected, but In the midst of the huge Ebola outbreak, no one banned flights from Sierra Leone to Europe. Did anyone ban direct flights from Seuol to London in the big Korean MERS outbreak, ban flights from HK to London when SARS was huge?

I thought not. So firmly YABU on the flights ( at this point in the outbreak and I admit the situation may change which means I reserve right to change my opinion; just that if we stopped the world for every maybe threat then nothing would ever happen )

Screening passengers for fever before & after they board the planes from Wuhan would be reasonable.

I can't tell you what to worry about, OP. I research these types of diseases & I'm not worried for me or mine. I feel :( for the people actually at risk in far East, of course. Will include little children. :( :(

I don't know, maybe YABU.
With things like this in the media, which can cause mass panic I always tend to look for the things that they don't want us to ne focusing on.

It's one to keep an interested eye on. Remember that they did manage to put a halt to SARS before it became a pandemic and they learned a huge amount from that.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound as though I’m not concerned for people at the epicentre of this, but I am worried about how quickly this has popped up in other countries and what that means about the rate of transmission.

HotSince82 I pay no attention to the headlines from the likes of the Daily Mail & Express, and look for reputable sources of facts and information. I was concerned about it before it was widely reported.

@MedSchoolRat

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28663833

”British Airways has suspended flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone until the end of August amid concerns over the Ebola outbreak.
The airline normally has four flights a week from London Heathrow to Freetown in Sierra Leone, with a connection to Monrovia in Liberia.
BA said the move was due to the "deteriorating public health situation" in the two west African countries.”

MissPoldark
As far as I am aware it is yet to be picked up fully yet by the MSM.
I will be keeping a close eye on their handling of this and I feel this will inform me as to how exactly to pitch my concerns.
I wasn't suggesting that you swallow the tabloids whole, rather we have been here before and if the message is alarmist it tends to pay to keep our fears in check, at least in the short term.

if the message is alarmist it tends to pay to keep our fears in check, at least in the short term.

Does it work that way with this sort of thing? I feel it’s the opposite. They don’t want people to be alarmed & start panicking, that’s bad for the economy.

Depends on the zeitgeist of the time imo.

Who knows? Things such as this are utilised by the MSM depending upon their current intentions/obfuscation.
Only in my personal opinion, of course and I could be wrong.

I'm not too worried right now on behalf of us in the West.

It'll have a big chance to spread at Chinese New Year, when many people travel.

It could easily spread from China via Hong Kong to other places in the Far East and of course the larger places of the Chinese diaspora (Canada, probably) and from those places, anywhere.

What we don't yet know is whether there have been thousands infected and only a handful of serious cases, or if it is still small numbers with a high proportion serious.

We'll all know in a month or two if its serious or not- how quickly it is spreading (or not) and if this is bubonic plague level (or not).

WE probably don't even need MSM to cover it to know... we;ll all just start dying anyway.

The film Contagion is very good at displaying the rate of such diseases and how they spread.

If I were china and people were leaving the country, I wouldn't screen them either - less people to treat. (using your govt. resources).

I dont think its anything to panic about yet- but the next month or so will tell us all we need to know.

Notice how MSM have stopped covering the middle east / shooting down of civil aircraft? all they seem to care about Ex-Royals

A really, beyond nasty upper resp/ chest/pneumonia type virus has been going around Liverpool for several months but even GP's were just 🤷‍♀️ "it's a viral chest infection"- which it wasn't 'just' a chest infection, it spread through our family and a few friends, and it was worse than actual flu. A family member is a GP and they said they didn't have a clue what it was yet, but it was going around pretty bad. We were all out of it for almost 2 months each, totally debilitated in turn. I caught it twice and the second time ended up in Hospital, so did my DS (2.5yrs).

We have an absolutely huge chinese student community and I'm now wondering if maybe it was this virus going around 🤷‍♀️

@MissPoldark loads of dead people is also 'bad' and much worse for the economy

YANBU, I’m crapping myself

It is scary (we live in China so more relevant for us I guess). I will be avoiding the Metro and public transport and we will all wear masks. 12 million people travelled through my city’s airports last weekend alone. It will spread rapidly due to CNY travel.

Yabu we've had swine flu and Ebola scares in the past and survived this is no different. Unless your planning a trip to China that is...
They've already started containing the virus and limiting flights and travel so it is under control

There’s some sort of scare every few years and it never comes to anything. Mad cow disease, foot and mouth, swine flu, avian flu, Ebola, this.. Do you know anyone who died of any of these panics? No

Estimated 50 million people were killed by the flu in 1918. It has always been a thought in my mind it could happen again.

'Wash your hands, be honest with your doctors', says Hong Kong expert'

^^
Hmm 🤔

My Dd is a teacher in China ( in province next to Wuhan) ,
Fortunately she's currently home in UK on holiday but due to fly back to Shanghai next weekend ( after CNY) The school are apparently to be monitoring pupils temperature each day , with hand sanitizer in each classroom and masks to be worn in classes
I am rather concerned and making sure she'll be taking full precautions- including purchasing a protective face mask as recommended by a fellow HCP who works in medical research and has worked in Africa during Ebola outbreak!
cambridgemask.com/shop/pro-mask/lady-macbeth-adjustable/
I shall be watching outcome of WHO talks today with great interest and if it looks like travel is to be curtailed, I'll be getting her to advise her school she won't be able to travel at current time!