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Originally from the UK I retired & moved to Spain 20 years ago, whilst it's not paradise it's probably as close as I'll ever come to it, living on a mountain with the sea in front & mountains behind & 320 days of sunshine a year. Still reasonably fit
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Boris is out of hospital
Best news I've heard today
That may all sound familiar, but that was 1918
In 2018 it was generally agreed Spanish 'flu 100 years earlier had killed 18 million. This article reckons up to 100 million.
This is why I keep a spreadsheet of this bloody virus, so I know what figures were released on a daily basis and don't have to rely on the media.
See video in tweet
Whilst thinking of cats have you seen the new Red Dwarf, cats everywhere
Now this exercise thing you mention
I moved the spirit myself by moving
Coronaviruses are a very diverse family of viruses. They have a large host range, which includes humans. However, the greatest amount of coronavirus diversity is seen in bats.
Coronaviruses have spiky projections on their surface that look like crowns. Corona means “crown” in Latin — and that’s how this family of viruses got their name.
Most of the time, human coronaviruses cause mild respiratory illnesses like the common cold. In fact, four types of human coronaviruses cause 10 to 30 percent of upper respiratory tract infections in adults.
A new type of coronavirus can emerge when an animal coronavirus develops the ability to transmit a disease to humans. When germs are transmitted from an animal to a human, it’s called zoonotic transmission.
Coronaviruses that make the jump to human hosts can cause serious illness. This can be due to a variety of factors, particularly humans’ lack of immunity to the new virus. Here are some examples of such coronaviruses:
SARS-CoV, the virus that caused SARS, which was first identified in 2003
MERS-CoV, the virus that caused Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which was first identified in 2012
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, which was first identified in 2019
Are you saying the media could have been any more hysterical than it is now
Once it was out the Spanish government should never have allowed the football match that brought thousands of infected Italian fans to Spain, they then compounded that error by telling everyone they were about to lock the country down, meaning infected residents of Madrid spread the virus across the whole country when they fled to their holiday homes