There's coronavirus epidemic lite and coronavirus x-treme, no convincing explanation for the difference, and a thousand theories, none of which persuasively fit all the data until you start mixing and matching them together into a complex quilt of rationalization
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Nothing about my degree from the Twitter Institute of Public Health prepared me for this
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The assumption has been that New York or Lombardy is what inevitably happens to you if you don't take the strictest measures. But what if in most places, Tokyo is what happens to you? It will be really encouraging if we can figure out this baffling difference and mobilize it.
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Took a break from people Japansplaining to me in the comments about how the country is on strictest lockdown to pick up some fresh bread at the corner bakery.
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Strange - any studies on whether this beast is transmitted through other means (food, water)?
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Not really strange, in house transmission is always big even for seasonal influenzas, with the attack rate of this virus, we know it’s a big issue from Chinese doctors and academic publications since mid Feb, NY put too much effort on getting beds not isolatiing the infected
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...is Japan doing central quarantine
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No, they're still playing catch-up after being convinced it wasn't a problem. Idk if their numbers are accurate right now.
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He did not say they are self isolating... they are getting from others in their home. So someone might be working or going out etc and it spreads at home.
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But he BLAMES them...In another article he said 'are they using hand sanitizer.?' Is he serious??? There is no hand sanitizer. He's so awful I cannot believe it sometimes.
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