Post
Topic
Board Politics & Society
Re: Coronavirus Outbreak
by
nullius
on 15/03/2020, 18:11:21 UTC
People are panicking about this to an unbelievable extent. It's a bad disease, to be sure, and some precautions should be taken, but it's not worth

Nothing is worth panic.  Death itself is not cause for panic.  And nothing is worth this!

I drafted this yesterday evening, offline.  Funny to see you telling people not to panic.  Edit:  And I somehow didn’t notice that I was replying to a post three days old. :-/

...he has declared that coronavirus is “The End of the World”—quote-unquote; his words. [...]

MAN UP.  OR SHUT UP.

(I told him that straight, then had a calm and productive discussion with his wife.)



(I recently had all of the symptoms of the virus. I wonder if I had it, or if it was just the ordinary flu. It was very unpleasant, though I got over it in a few days.)

Whatever it was, I am glad you’re ok.

I have been unable to find reliable information on whether surviving a coronavirus infection confers lasting immunity, and to what degree.  It seems to be a yet unsettled question.