I thought it was mentioned in one of the Medcram videos, but a five minute search didn’t make them come up, instead a lot of hearsay did pop up (reddit, zetohedge). So I won’t be bothered to classify is as hearsay.

An academic study postulates that latitude 30-50 degrees north is the danger zone for the virus.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=3550308

frizzie77 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:52 pm Please @Kammekor @Phnom Poon read carefully. I'm not saying people don't die of corona and yes, maybe Cambodia is under-reporting its cases (although no-one knows for sure), but no-one has literally dropped dead on the street from it, as in all of a sudden falling over. Which is what was suggested in UT's post.

If you're having a lung infection caused by corona, you're not walking around.

Careful... apparently too much thinking can be fatal

update march 11th in Italy: our president just announced that just the vital parts of the economy stay open: Food retailers, pharmacies and all acitivities related to health care. Some transport will remain available whatever that means. Basically all other businesses have to close down. ALL!. Now I guess that will panic many fellow italians. We are facing a complete new situation and dont know what the consequences of such a shutdown will be. A lot of questions remain unasnwered for the moment, what will happen if we cannot stop the spreading? Some scientist already predict that 70% of citizens could carry the virus withinn the next 5 weeks. Intensive care beds are already not available anymore in the hardest hit places, respiratory helping machines are fully occupied already, how will we be able to handle the increasing number of people who need that kind of treatment? No answers for the moment. Most of the neighbouring countries have not (yet) adopted this severe measures but the increasing number of infected people will probably force them to copy the italian way. Europe is on the brink of a massive health tsunami with unprecedented economical and social consequences. I hope that I am completely wrong.

some figures about the situation in Italy march 12th 2020:

general situation in Italy by region:



daily new number of cases:



divided by actual state of health:



yellow: total number of people tested positive
white: deceased
green: healed

daily update: https://www.corriere.it/speciale/salute ... us-italia/

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:36 pm An academic study postulates that latitude 30-50 degrees north is the danger zone for the virus.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=3550308

Interesting theory. (It's also most of the wine making regions of the world!)


https://www.mapmania.org/static/map/ori ... _60432.jpg