
Originally Posted by
rooter
OK, I got it slightly wrong. Mea Culpa.
The corona virus is not technically a flu virus.
It is similar in that it targets the respiratory tract and has similar symptoms but it is not technically a flu virus.
But that is actually good news!
The corona virus is a close relative of the SARS virus which was the big scare a few years ago.
And the news just gets better!
The corona virus is even more piss weak than the SARS virus.
The SARS virus only managed to kill 800 people! - that is nothing when you consider there were around 7 billion people in the world then.
And all of those people it killed were old, sick, frail etc and would of died of something else pretty soon anyway.
More people died falling off a ladder hanging up the curtains that year. LOL!
So basically this corona virus is weaker than the the flu virus, it's effects on your body are less serious than the flu virus, it spreads less easily than the flu virus.
Basically it is a wimp, it's got nothin'
You almost certainly wont catch it and even if you do, it will not seriously harm you, you will Shake It Off just like Taylor Swift. LOL!
And one last point retrospect - yes a bat is not a chicken - agreed.
But consider this, the SARS virus which is the closest cousin of the corona virus and is actually deadlier than the corona virus was spread by chickens, yes chickens, good old fashion Colonel Sanders, KFC, white meat chickens, not bats or turtles or dogs or any funky animals eaten in the exotic Orient but good old white bread, meat and three veg, Sunday roast chickens ...