Person diagnosed with Coronavirus next town over from me...aibu?!

[JuniperNet]

Just seen this in the local news that a school has closed in the next town over from me as one of the pupils parents has had a case of Coronavirus confirmed yesterday.

AIBU to be a bit freaked by this?! Too close to home for my liking!

", you could get in the cupboard under the stairs with 100kg of dry pasta and a tea light til christmas."
Can I have a little bit of butter, some salt and my kindle? Sign me up!

This site is useful to monitor numbers too

gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

It’s run by Johns Hopkins

Yes but china is way more efficient than we are. The WHO have been full of praise for the facilities, the technology and the tracking methods plus they have used extreme measures to restrict the spread.

As one comedian said, China has had a lot more recent practice than we have of rounding people up and locking them away...

It's the numbers that are worrying as well as the vulnerability of certain groups and age groups.

So if 20% of those who are infected need respiratory support, in a population of 65,000,000 that means 13,000,000 people.

If 2% die that's 1,300,000.

That's why it's very very important to try to slowdown (spread out) the rate of infection so that we can maximize the chance of hospitals coping.

What doesn't seem to be known is whether a proportion of the population will simply not contract the virus at all. I would think that can't be the case in a new virus to which no one has any immunity?

What with that and climate change we certainly have our challenges at present on this little blue planet.

Why has the UK disappeared off that site?

It hasn't - 19 cases, +3 new ones.

madroid it is highly likely that there will be a group of people that have natural immunity to this virus, new or not. Such groups are known for many types of disease - from plague to (far more recently) HIV. But unless that group is quite large, the effect wont be noticable.

@deydododatdodontdeydo The UK is not showing at all for me.

It's back for me now @janemaster but was missing for a good while

Yes thanks it is back for me now and showing the extra 6 cases.