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originally posted by: Kenzo
Pardon my French, but to me this coronavirus hysteria is getting out of hand.
Last time i checked , it look like that the epicenter is still China, and if i remember right the one dead in Philippines was Chinese.
Are you wanting martial law ? Becouse if everybody get hysterical it may go to that, even without any real pandemic situation.
Have a few beers and calm down .....
My 2 cents
originally posted by: all2human
Nobody is doubting that this is Bad, that we are not witnessing a Pandemic on an epic scale
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
originally posted by: Hecate666
I don't know how this shouldn't cause any concern?
The regular flu is a cause for concern. Blowing it out of proportion is irresponsible, dangerous and unethical.
Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death.
"The capsid of a virus is something like the shell of a turtle," said physicist Otto Sankey of Arizona State University. "If the shell can be compromised [by mechanical vibrations], the virus can be inactivated."
Recent experimental evidence has shown that laser pulses tuned to the right frequency can kill certain viruses. However, locating these so-called resonant frequencies is a bit of trial and error.
"Experiments must just try a wide variety of conditions and hope that conditions are found that can lead to success," Sankey told LiveScience.
To expedite this search, Sankey and his student Eric Dykeman have developed a way to calculate the vibrational motion of every atom in a virus shell. From this, they can determine the lowest resonant frequencies.
As an example of their technique, the team modeled the satellite tobacco necrosis virus and found this small virus resonates strongly around 60 Gigahertz (where one Gigahertz is a billion cycles per second), as reported in the Jan. 14 issue of Physical Review Letters.
A virus' death knell
All objects have resonant frequencies at which they naturally oscillate.
Pardon my French, but to me this coronavirus hysteria is getting out of hand.
originally posted by: MoonMine
15 days.
If by Monday February 24th no outbreaks outside of China have been recorded we will know if hysteria is in order.
My personal opinion is given the measures and videos coming out of China this is a serious event.
The actual numbers of infected/dead would be impossible to determine - even with a cooperative government.
There are simply not enough medical resources and admin for that available at the hot spots.