Coronavirus threatens AirPods production as stock dwindles

I would rather the workers be safe and healthy than possibly getting more people contaminated. 

This virus has been getting out of control for a while now, but it has never felt so real until one of your friends or families get affected. I have friends currently stuck for 14 days on board of Diamond Princess near Japan along with 3000+ others with 20 confirmed already hospitalized.

JinTech said:

I would rather the workers be safe and healthy than possibly getting more people contaminated. 

kevin kee said:

This virus has been getting out of control for a while now, but it has never felt so real until one of your friends or families get affected. I have friends currently stuck for 14 days on board of Diamond Princess near Japan along with 3000+ others with 20 confirmed already hospitalized.

I'm curious about the psychology of your statements. It sucks that people you know are infected and having so many unknowns means that the gov't, WHO, CDC, and other organizations need to be very proactive in how they deal with new, virulent illness, but I can't help look at this objectively to see how other viruses and diseases affect the populace each year with hardly any fanfare from the media. For example, in the US alone more than 8,000 have died this flu season and over 50,000 have died from pneumonia in the past year. That's a much high death rate per capita than we're seeing from corona virus. A few years ago ebola was the big scare but then I stopped hearing about it after it and yet a quick google search will show that there were 1000 cases in 3 months within the last year which has a rate of death at about 50%.

In case emotion has made someone overlook my key points: corona virus needs to be a focus for the professionals and if you one fo the few who know someone who is infected you should be pray (or whatever you do) for them, but you should also do that for everyone you know with cancer, the flu, etc. The average person shouldn't be making this their daily focus right now and yet I can't escape talk of it because the media is relentless when it comes to fear focusing. If your focus is that Apple may sell make and sell AirPods then sell your flipping stock you sociopath.

“People living in the U.S. should still not be worried,” Brown said. “There are only 11 known cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., while we now have nearly 20 million ill with influenza in the current flu season and at least 10,000 deaths from the flu this flu season.”

• https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-well-know-if-the-wuhan-coronavirus-has-become-1841458361

Soli said:

JinTech said:

I would rather the workers be safe and healthy than possibly getting more people contaminated. 

kevin kee said:

This virus has been getting out of control for a while now, but it has never felt so real until one of your friends or families get affected. I have friends currently stuck for 14 days on board of Diamond Princess near Japan along with 3000+ others with 20 confirmed already hospitalized.

I'm curious about the psychology of your statements. It sucks that people you know are infected and having so many unknowns means that the gov't, WHO, CDC, and other organizations need to be very proactive in how they deal with new, virulent illness, but I can't help look at this objectively to see how other viruses and diseases affect the populace each year with hardly any fanfare from the media. For example, in the US alone more than 8,000 have died this flu season and over 50,000 have died from pneumonia in the past year. That's a much high death rate per capita than we're seeing from corona virus. A few years ago ebola was the big scare but then I stopped hearing about it after it and yet a quick google search will show that there were 1000 cases in 3 months within the last year which has a rate of death at about 50%.

In case emotion has made someone overlook my key points: corona virus needs to be a focus for the professionals and you know someone who is infected you should be pray (or whatever you do) for them, but you should also do that for everyone you know with cancer, the flu, etc. The average person shouldn't be making this their daily focus right now and yet I can't escape talk of it because the media is relentless when it comes to fear focusing.

“People living in the U.S. should still not be worried,” Brown said. “There are only 11 known cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., while we now have nearly 20 million ill with influenza in the current flu season and at least 10,000 deaths from the flu this flu season.”

• https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-well-know-if-the-wuhan-coronavirus-has-become-1841458361

The big difference is that the world has vaccine for flu and there is no vaccine for this new virus.  It is also not as understood as the flu is.  There is risk of this becoming worldwide problem, it is scary.  Look at how fast things went bad in China.  One of the key things to be proven is how long it lasts on surfaces,  this needs to be found out and proven for everyone to know.  It is highly contagious which is a huge problem.  Let’s hope for better news soon.

Soli said:

JinTech said:

I would rather the workers be safe and healthy than possibly getting more people contaminated. 

kevin kee said:

This virus has been getting out of control for a while now, but it has never felt so real until one of your friends or families get affected. I have friends currently stuck for 14 days on board of Diamond Princess near Japan along with 3000+ others with 20 confirmed already hospitalized.

I'm curious about the psychology of your statements. It sucks that people you know are infected and having so many unknowns means that the gov't, WHO, CDC, and other organizations need to be very proactive in how they deal with new, virulent illness, but I can't help look at this objectively to see how other viruses and diseases affect the populace each year with hardly any fanfare from the media. For example, in the US alone more than 8,000 have died this flu season and over 50,000 have died from pneumonia in the past year. That's a much high death rate per capita than we're seeing from corona virus. A few years ago ebola was the big scare but then I stopped hearing about it after it and yet a quick google search will show that there were 1000 cases in 3 months within the last year which has a rate of death at about 50%.

In case emotion has made someone overlook my key points: corona virus needs to be a focus for the professionals and you know someone who is infected you should be pray (or whatever you do) for them, but you should also do that for everyone you know with cancer, the flu, etc. The average person shouldn't be making this their daily focus right now and yet I can't escape talk of it because the media is relentless when it comes to fear focusing.

“People living in the U.S. should still not be worried,” Brown said. “There are only 11 known cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., while we now have nearly 20 million ill with influenza in the current flu season and at least 10,000 deaths from the flu this flu season.”

• https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-well-know-if-the-wuhan-coronavirus-has-become-1841458361

The problem isn't in their statements.  The problem lies in your query.  People can care about more than one thing.  The point you're making ignores that fact, and creates a binary one-upsmanship.    @JinTech can show concern for the workers, @Kevin Kee can feel bad about his friend on the boat, and both can feel bad about the number of deaths from this flu season.  Since the topic is about the coronavirus, it would kind seem odd to start a conversation about the flu don't you think?  Not talking about it doesn't mean they aren't concerned.  They just aren't addressing that concern here... in a coronavirus thread.

This reminds me of that one friend we all have.  You know the one.  If you say "I broke my leg" when I fell in a bike crash."  He'll say, "Aw man, that's pretty bad.  I broke my leg, arm, and my brain pan when I was on a bike that was hit by an 18 wheeler being driven by ninja... who was transporting a great white/orca hybrid that nearly bit me into when the tanker cracked and created a 33 foot tidal wave that nearly drowned me.