So B737 are you on vacation with all the cancelled flights?
Here is a link to some definitions of the terms being thrown around if you are not a biologist.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...r-wuhan-coronavirus-from-droplets-to-zoonotic
NPR is a good source for news on this material.
My guess as to why they are taking this seriously, the news hype not withstanding, is that with no one having any immunity to this virus, and with it being clearly contagious, there is a probability of there being an awful lot of sick people needing supportive medical care, not being able to go to work, or deliver food to the stores, or gas to the gas stations. Even with a relatively low mortality rate there could be a significant impact.
For historical examples look at the number of times isolated native populations have been decimated by illnesses brought by Europeans.
With luck it won't spread in this country the way it is in China with its more dense population.
If it had been up to me I would have home quarantined everyone that had been in China period, not just Wuhan, last week, but I can imagine the political fallout from that. It is so much easier to inconvenience a relatively small number of people than try to build new hospitals in two weeks as China is trying to do. Of course home quarantine in this country is of limited effectiveness due to the number of people who feel that restrictions don't apply to them, eg the two that went walkabout during an Ebola observation period.
Here is a link to some definitions of the terms being thrown around if you are not a biologist.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...r-wuhan-coronavirus-from-droplets-to-zoonotic
NPR is a good source for news on this material.
My guess as to why they are taking this seriously, the news hype not withstanding, is that with no one having any immunity to this virus, and with it being clearly contagious, there is a probability of there being an awful lot of sick people needing supportive medical care, not being able to go to work, or deliver food to the stores, or gas to the gas stations. Even with a relatively low mortality rate there could be a significant impact.
For historical examples look at the number of times isolated native populations have been decimated by illnesses brought by Europeans.
With luck it won't spread in this country the way it is in China with its more dense population.
If it had been up to me I would have home quarantined everyone that had been in China period, not just Wuhan, last week, but I can imagine the political fallout from that. It is so much easier to inconvenience a relatively small number of people than try to build new hospitals in two weeks as China is trying to do. Of course home quarantine in this country is of limited effectiveness due to the number of people who feel that restrictions don't apply to them, eg the two that went walkabout during an Ebola observation period.
