Coronavirus. Your thoughts? [Serious and Non-Serious]

That is why a true parasite learns to keep its host alive rather than kill it outright. Unless it can continually find new hosts.

Now I will just point out some ways how it has effected me (take note, I do not reside in Sweden anymore as most of these restrictions, if any, don't take place there): The country is on complete lock down. All the places were closed down besides food stores, pharmacies and medical facilities and labs, and some working facilities. Restrictrions for movement have been made but you can still go outside if you follow them. Though I am afraid it will be a no outside restriction soon, as some still don't understand the seriousness of this all. They'll maybe start restricting transport as well. Many people have moved to the countryside and will maybe do so permanently. Which is kinda good actually. Since I go to university, I am on online studying. So is my little sister. Its quite tiresome, because I mostly have to deal with her studies rather than my own. The teachers are giving so much homework it is insane. I'm really worried about my graduation and also my motivation for it. At first the memes about it happening online were funny however at this point that may be the case, if even possible at this point. I have to do work in a lab for my thesis and it is very difficult to do rn. I've been sick for over a month before the corona incident and have a generally weak immune system. I am scared because the only time I did go out was right before these restrictions. I'm very worried. Not only for myself but for my family members. I'm pretty sure we have it at this point and it's just a matter of time, but I hope I'm paranoid. And I wish I could go to nature. But I don't own a car and it's dangerous to use other sorts of transportation right now. And in the end, I am very tired of all of this right now already. I thought it wouldn't bother me at all really, considering the cause of death and sickness is around us everyday but this.. The fear and loss of others is already too much. I wish I could shut down the media channels but I just keep on reading the articles... Every 15 minutes a new one pops up here.

i love conspiracy theories but isnt the "cut down on the world's population" theory provably wrong? if people die then there will be no one to work jobs so businesses cant expand so economies cant grow thats why the biggest countries are the ones with the best economies, more citizens to work more jobs the better we cant just kill the poor either because theyr the ones working the smaller jobs that no one else wants like working in warehouses, factories, and retail i think its just a fun conspiracy to throw around, but irl i dont think its sustainable not to mention because poor people are financially illiterate they are the ones who fuel the economy, buying dumb entertainment shit to keep there minds off their horrible lives its why trickle down economics doesnt work, the rich arent rich because they spend money so the economy would again stagnate, which would hurt the country as a whole

I watched a 2015 video of some known guy from here who refered about the coronavirus, about how a virus from bats in asia would potentially go from the bats to humans and cause a pandemic. The major danger being that it could jump directly to the humans, unlike the ebola that it needed to mutate first. welp

Bill Gates also talked about it years ago (Not the Corona Virus exactly) https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI https://youtu.be/9AEMKudv5p0

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/ This came out yesterday. Really well written and thought out article. "...A global pandemic of this scale was inevitable. In recent years, hundreds of health experts have written books, white papers, and op-eds warning of the possibility. Bill Gates has been telling anyone who would listen, including the 18 million viewers of his TED Talk. In 2018, I wrote a story for The Atlantic arguing that America was not ready for the pandemic that would eventually come. In October, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security war-gamed what might happen if a new coronavirus swept the globe. And then one did. Hypotheticals became reality. “What if?” became “Now what?” So, now what? In the late hours of last Wednesday, which now feels like the distant past, I was talking about the pandemic with a pregnant friend who was days away from her due date. We realized that her child might be one of the first of a new cohort who are born into a society profoundly altered by COVID-19. We decided to call them Generation C. As we’ll see, Gen C’s lives will be shaped by the choices made in the coming weeks, and by the losses we suffer as a result. But first, a brief reckoning. On the Global Health Security Index, a report card that grades every country on its pandemic preparedness, the United States has a score of 83.5—the world’s highest. Rich, strong, developed, America is supposed to be the readiest of nations. That illusion has been shattered. Despite months of advance warning as the virus spread in other countries, when America was finally tested by COVID-19, it failed. ..." "...Even a perfect response won’t end the pandemic. As long as the virus persists somewhere, there’s a chance that one infected traveler will reignite fresh sparks in countries that have already extinguished their fires. This is already happening in China, Singapore, and other Asian countries that briefly seemed to have the virus under control. Under these conditions, there are three possible endgames: one that’s very unlikely, one that’s very dangerous, and one that’s very long. The first is that every nation manages to simultaneously bring the virus to heel, as with the original SARS in 2003. Given how widespread the coronavirus pandemic is, and how badly many countries are faring, the odds of worldwide synchronous control seem vanishingly small. The second is that the virus does what past flu pandemics have done: It burns through the world and leaves behind enough immune survivors that it eventually struggles to find viable hosts. This “herd immunity” scenario would be quick, and thus tempting. But it would also come at a terrible cost: SARS-CoV-2 is more transmissible and fatal than the flu, and it would likely leave behind many millions of corpses and a trail of devastated health systems. The United Kingdom initially seemed to consider this herd-immunity strategy, before backtracking when models revealed the dire consequences. The U.S. now seems to be considering it too. ..."

1918 flu pandemic family portrait. https://i.imgur.com/xZhOIqd.jpg