Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

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brokenbetty in reply to @jellybaby

Just enough asymptotic carriers to spread the virus, not anything like enough for herd immunity without crippling healthcare. Feels like lockdown until we have a vaccine to me.

I know anecdote is not the singular of data, but as far as I can tell I spent 4 hours in a car on March 14th sitting next to a guy who went symptomatic the next day, on the way back from a ski holiday where I was eating, drinking, car-sharing, bubble-lift sharing and lift queuing with 100 people at least 4 of whom reported symptoms over the next two weeks, and one of whom had a horrible cough that he'd picked up in an Austrian ski resort but insisted he didn;t have CV and coughed all over us for a week.

So I spent the next 3 weeks convinced I was about to get C19. But it never showed up. So from my sample of 100, either it's much less infectious than we've been lead to believe or a lot of us were asymptomatic.

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SwissChap in reply to @brokenbetty

either it's much less infectious than we've been lead to believe or a lot of us were asymptomatic.

That's the thing though, right - it does seem like a lot of people are asymptomatic, and even more so if you're reasonably healthy and broadly speaking young.

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deleted in reply to @SwissChap

even more so if you're reasonably healthy and broadly speaking young.

Unless you're not asymptomatic at all and get papped into a ventilator, or, are like my cycle-fit mid 30's manager who is still breathless a month later.

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