>>11328150> only desperate lobbying in the name of keeping all those early-2000s tourist dollars coming in (?)stopped that from happening.
Just realized I forgot to finish that sentence. and this one:
>I think places that were hard-hit by SARS will be better protected against this, given thatthe two viruses appear to be quite similar though nCoV (as it's called for now) is apparently less lethal, but we only have rickety Chinese statistics to go off of so that's not confirmed by any means.
Anyways, I'm somewhat familiar with virology, and coronaviruses are pretty bad at spreading, because they only become infectious once the patient is already quite ill. In contrast, a really good epidemic virus will spread during latency - before any symptoms have manifested and while the patient can still walk around and achieve maximum contact with others in the population. The flu does that, for example.
I will provide updates in these threads if something interesting happens, as long as I can ensure my anonymity.
