If these numbers for dead and infected are comparable:
Flu: 8200 dead / 15e6 infected = 0.055% death rate
Corona : 105 dead / 4500 infected = 2.4 % death rate
So many more deaths per infected with Corona. That’s still kinda worrying to me. (If it spreads as well as flu, if medical care is comparable, etc. etc.)
Speaking of trying to use statistics…
I’ve read that this is more or less true; at best, protection from giving others what’s you’ve got.
But seems to me anything that reduces transmission success is useful. I thought it was true that it only takes small reductions in transmission rate to prevent a full-bore pandemic. Washing hands, coughing into sleeves, etc. are cumulative reductions; once enough people do enough reductions, pandemic prevented. I recently ordered 100-pack of the simple blue face masks; if nothing else, I recall I couldn’t find any in my garage last time I looked, so they won’t go to waste.
Obviously I say this as just a random Internet person, not a doctor, scientist, or perhaps even smart.
Around 70 passengers booked on a China Southern Airlines flight from Nagoya, Japan to Shanghai refused to get on the plane
I don’t mean to be insensitive to people’s fears, but I’m having a hard time seeing why this should lead to a five-hour delay. And I’m looking at this strictly from a hard-nosed corporate perspective—or rather government perspective, since CSA is state-owned. The value-added in just saying “Okay, well, thanks for the money and let us know when you want to buy another ticket” seems a lot higher here than opening negotiations with this and any subsequent group of passengers.
ETA: I get why airlines not taking this stance in general is preferable. But if ever you were going to invoke that kind of approach, this would seem like the time, since the facts would actually be on your side as an airline for once.
I was thinking about that when I read the article, but I think the 70 passengers probably outnumbered the airline staff, and If I understood it correctly, it was not that they were refusing to board after the Wuhan passengers have boarded, but that neither group has boarded the plane and the conflict was still at the gate.
Wearing a non-fitted face-mask is a way of propelling your droplets with extra force, out the gaps around the edge of the mask.
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