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[Mech#4]

I am irrationally disappointed that they chose to model a bacteriophage when we know coronavirus is spherical.

Fill a hamster ball with beer?

[delphonso]

A more accurate model:

[Naturegirl1999]

I am irrationally disappointed that they chose to model a bacteriophage when we know coronavirus is spherical.

Yes, Coronavirus is not a bacteriophage. If it was, we eukaryotes would not be affected

[ChairmanPoo]

Excuse me are you assuming my clade?

[Naturegirl1999]

Excuse me are you assuming my clade?

As far as I know, bacteria and archaea have not developed multicellular colonies with manipulation appendages, so yes. Until non eukaryotes develop appendages for manipulation, it is assumed that posters on the forum are eukaryotes, due to eukaryotes so far being the only clade with appendages for manipulating objects

[ChairmanPoo]

I self identify as archaea

[Naturegirl1999]

I self identify as archaea

Do you live in hot springs? High salt concentrations? If you have nuclei in any of your cells you are a eukaryote, though interestingly, the nucleus’s DNA is more similar to archaea than to bacteria. A hypothesis is that a eukaryote started due to a mutualism between a bacterium and an archaea

[TamerVirus]

Coronavirus official death toll has surpassed SARS official death toll

[Folly]

Yes, though it's worth noting that Corona has a much lower lethality rate compared to SARS. It's just spreading much faster.

[delphonso]

Also 2003 detection methods compared to 2020 detection methods.

[Il Palazzo]

Call me if reaches seasonal flu levels.

[TamerVirus]

Anyways, China is supposed to go back to work on Monday.
Let’s see how that plays out

[Reelya]

Yes, though it's worth noting that Corona has a much lower lethality rate compared to SARS. It's just spreading much faster.

Also note some influenza strains. HN51 influenza had a 60% casuality rate, compare that to the roughly 2% for coronavirus. The only thing stopping it was that it didn't have a high person to person transmission rate. They noted that just a couple of mutations would be needed to make airbourne HN51 a reality.

[ChairmanPoo]

Anyways, China is supposed to go back to work on Monday.
Let’s see how that plays out

Everyone is going back to work on monday you fool. That's what mondays are about

[delphonso]

Anyways, China is supposed to go back to work on Monday.
Let’s see how that plays out

Don't know about coalboat, but everyone at my job is working from home until Feb 24th at least. Not a big change, but a bit sick of being inside.