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My apologies if this was already posted, but there's a 4th confirmed case in South Korea.

Archive: http://archive.li/lyX7e
Don't worry, Best Korea has closed its borders and will roll in with American developed vaccine in couple of months, pick up the pieces and take over. Best time line, all the Korea will be the best Korea.
 
The coronavirus' ‘transmission ability has become stronger’ - China's senior health official.
Any chance that the hazmat suits won't be enough?
As long as their crews follow proper sanitization procedures...
 
The coronavirus' ‘transmission ability has become stronger’ - China's senior health official.
Any chance that the hazmat suits won't be enough?
The corona virus is fucking big. It's not small enough to be P3 rated permeable. It isn't going to rip through the fucking hazmat suits like the fucking Hulk in a roid rage.

Either their suits have shitty seams and seals or the pollution goblin's training is for shit and they're all taking their suits off, folding them up for reuse, and just heading home without any fucking decon.*

Unless the article means the R0 is higher as well as it's lifespan outside the body in airborne, water droplet, or mucus droplet suspension is longer than expected.

Otherwise, the fucking pollution goblins have fucked up their decon procedures and their suits are garbage.

*I actually saw that during a biomasscal exercise. Fucking dumbass civvies came in, unsuited, folded their suits up, and walked out of the decon area without even washing their fucking hands, all talking to each other and laughing. They should have all been fucking failed right there.
 
y'know normally I would just point and laugh at the doom and gloom end of the world nitwits. But between this, Australia being Australia, and an actual fucking insanely huge plague of locusts ravaging Africa I'm starting to think the lunatic fringe might have a point. I mean it's getting a bit Old Testamenty.
 
This is preprint, that means it wasn't reviewed; the whole paper doesn't look that truthworthy to me. There are no data set or research method that were used for calculating disclosed in paper itself (I expected to see some formulae like here, for example). Also I recommend to check out "Limitations" paragraph.
It should be noted that I'm not an epidemiologist, so what do I know.
They link to their Supplementary research materials (including their data, if you're interested!) in the OneDrive here. I've also attached their mathematical methods supplement pdf to this post.

That said, I share your skepticism about the preprint. At least from the quick glance I gave it, they're using pretty simplistic SEIR models to simulate the virus outbreak in-China and also out-of-China, and I'm always wary of basic reproduction numbers estimated using coupled ODE systems since they usually aren't informative above 1.

I mean, it's a nice toy for exploring qualitative dynamics of the virus spread I suppose. But I am very wary of them using such a toy to make quantitative IRL predictions.

Also worth noting is that they had to revise their absurdly high basic reproduction number R0=3.8 back down to R0=2.6 (as @Kaede Did Nothing Wrong notes in their post here).
 

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Behold quickly and shittily done stale ass dumb as shit meme
 

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