Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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That long incubation is stretching out the suffering and maximising spread opportunities. We'll see improvements in coming weeks if the quarantine has been effective.
Jura, I do not agree with your opinion most of the time. But you have my appreciation and respect in this particular effort and willingness to refine the model with valid suggestions. Please keep it up.
While the western MSM focus so much on the fatality number, it is the trending of the confirmed cases that tells us where the fight against 2019-nCoV is working or not.
Still much groping about in the dark. May the groping be on that actual elephant. And time not wasted on what they think is that elephant. We need real facts, and not wishful yearnings if we are to really get to grip with NCV.
And that needed really soon before phase 2 kick off.
Equation
Lieutenant General
Boy imagine if the US gets hit with an infectious virus. Will the MSM cry for ouster of the government in Washington with this kind of incompetency?
A US patient infected with the coronavirus was accidentally released from the hospital after initial tests failed to pick up symptoms.
A US patient infected with the coronavirus was accidentally released from the hospital after initial tests failed to pick up symptoms.
I do not want to put cruises down. It is a very good travel option for older folks. The average age of passengers for any cruise is quite high. And because of this, any viral disease outbreak will affect more people because of the lower resistance to fight off the infection due to the passengers' age.
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Colonel
Well, I guess I'm one of those self and lazy people...
My wife and I love cruises. We go on cruises all the time despite we are in our mid-40's. We took our first cruise about 18 years ago with family and fell in love with it. We usually get a cabin with a balcony. I have to admit that we are lazy. With a cruise ship, you have a hotel and a restaurant traveling together with you. To us, that's very convenient. And yes, that's because we are lazy. AND also cheap! For a relatively reasonable price, we get decent food and board.
I'm not so sure about the "selfish" part though... Cooking food, finding accommodation and entertainment ourselves seem to be the things we have been doing everyday at home... On a cruise, for about 5-7 days, we would like to forget about all these things and just get pampered and enjoy ourselves. I would like my vacation to be stress-free so that we can relax, enjoy what we cannot at home and do something different for once. It sounds like a good deal to us, at least.
I have to admit that we are not as cultured as some others. My wife and I seem to care less about experiencing different cultures and education. Let's face it, both of us have spent 2/3 of our lives getting formal education and continuously getting additional education of all sorts everyday at work and at home. We can skip some of that for a week out of 4-5 years (yes, that's how often we take vacation. Pathetic? Yes...). We seem to care more about de-stressing, maybe because we have been under so much stress and pressure at work... It seems that, nowadays, our dream day would be a whole day of doing nothing at all. A cruise trip lets us do just that... Going to bed whenever we want, waking up whenever we want, eat whenever and whatever we want, taking a nap whenever we want, AND doing nothing else. It seems to be a luxury for us nowadays...
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Each to his own. Whatever float your boat. Etc.
Or as Forrest Gump's mom put it:
Life is like box of chocolate!
I think that's a classic example of different strokes, and the diversity of life! We should embrace we are all different.
As for my wife and I. We are the opposite, we love explore different cultures. Love different experiences. For example, when we were young. We went over to the Soviet bloc countries because we wanted to see first hand are these people living in a 1984 type Orwellian society. But everyone around this time all goes to Spain for sea and booze. I think our lives are richer and my thinking are more diverse because of it.