It's a member of the Corona-virus family, even if it's a much nastier version than has been seen before. I'm not calling it The Wuhan Flu to minimize it at all, I'm doing so because it's an accurate descriptor.
Except it isn't a flu, so accuracy isn't a defense. The Spanish Flu was a flu -- it was caused by a strain of H1N1 influenza. Caronaviruses aren't, as I noted, even in the same phylum. They're around as related to influenza as elephants and sea cucumbers are.
I'll admit that I'm not an expert regarding the Corona virus but if I recall correctly sniffling and sneezing are not symptoms of the disease.
Well if that's the case you might as well mention the cases of fever and diarrhea associated with it.
What do you mean by "susceptible to?"- because it's susceptible to a lot of things, up to and including good ol' soap and water. It's not a particularly resilient disease, even by the fragile standard of the virus... it dies to all sorts of things when out of the body. Including extreme heat, extreme cold, salt, ph imbalance, dehydration (re: dry climates) and even oxygen if you give it time. Nine days is the upper extreme of this family's surface survival in perfect conditions, though I'd give it a full two weeks to be on the safe side.
Hot climates *do* appear to slow it down, as they slow other variants of the same family (like the common cold). So far, the spread pattern follows models built for diseases that favor cool weather (which again lines up with its common cold cousin). Not that it has much impact on a disease with this long an asymptomatic infectious period.
Thank you so much man!! This helps a lot!!
Colds are generally rhinoviruses. They are, at least, more closely related than influenza is, being in the same phylum, but they aren't in the same order. To continue the analogy I used above about the flu, rhinoviruses are about as closely related to coronaviruses as elephants are to lancelets.
Again. Not. A. Flu. This is coming only a couple of posts below Biigoh issuing a reminder about that rule, too.
It is a flu. What it is not, is influenza.
No; you just ignored my -- rather unsubtle -- answers:
Emphasis added. Or, well, this:
In other words, no, I have been paying attention. My position on this matter is both clear and unsubtle.
For a second I thought I was in the SV rants with a situation in a HP thread that got really wacky mod attention, but I got it halfway through.
Same shit, different toilet.
Thank you for your effort. I want you to know I appreciate all the work you've done, data you've collected, research you've hunted down, and laying it all out.
... Huh... Not what I'd call a first pick, but it'd probably work. Bonus: most trash bags are coated in antibiotic chemicals. They don't work on viruses *in* the body, but they work *outside*. Every remotely harmful chemical works on viruses outside the body.
The Voldemort Virus has a nice alliterative ring to it.
No, we need to save that one for an exciting new source of leprosy.
So long it affects the nose with more often than statistically normal for other leprosies...
