Novel coronavirus cases reignite SARS fears - the epidemic mess foretold

[KongTaigi]

@owleyes

The eighth case is a male Yokohama city officer in his 30s, who helped an infected patient from the Diamond Princess on February 10. He was wearing protective gear and goggles. The health ministry is looking into how he contract the virus.

That may be the most frightening bit of news/gossip I’ve read.

Had I not cancelled my one week trip to HK (starting 2/3), I would be in self-quarantine and taking it very seriously. Knowing that infection to detection MAY be as long as three weeks, I would be calling in a lot of favours for food and supply deliveries. One possible benefit of teaching uni students (3/2 開學), but how many returning international or holidaying students will ignore the self-quarantine.

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@Brianjones

Blocked from using egate now for no good reason. I asked immigration officers to explain the logic of suspending foreign residents usage, they couldn’t .

Blatant racism, perhaps. Preferential treatment based on race/blood, YES! Beggars the question of how slack the standards are for TW citizens…

@Brianjones

Six medics have died from the virus supposedly.

As a slob, generally speaking, I’m sure I would have touched my face dangerously at some point. Even though I have 30+ FFP3 (N99) masks.

@Hanna

@Hanna

Unless those three imbeciles who flew in from Hong Kong had it and spread it through Ximending.

Likely to happen, hope NIA find and ban them for forever, but perhaps the damage might be done already.

All it takes is one more asymptomatic transmission case to spoil a good week here.

tl;dr: Outside of China, the trend seems to be less bleak, but time, and only time, will tell.