# Coronavirus accelerating **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471 "2020-02-04T06:04:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/21 "2020-02-09T04:45:38Z")
An expert claims there are 50,000 new cases daily. I don’t doubt the Chinese government is underreporting the actual figures, but want to see his methodology and reasoning for such staggering numbers: > **[Expert thinks there are actually 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day](https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/expert-thinks-actually-50000-new-coronavirus-cases-day-12194129/)** > > The professor said that the number of cases is ‘going up all the time’. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/22 "2020-02-09T05:04:03Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Does this seem to anyone else is we are in the Pandemic computer game with this? I’ll let you know when giant blue beakers start exploding. I believe with SARS, after the Chinese government took it seriously the R0 value dropped to 0.2, which would’ve caused the disease to die off. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/23 "2020-02-09T05:18:33Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > An expert claims there are 50,000 new cases daily. I don’t doubt the Chinese government is underreporting the actual figures, but want to see his methodology and reasoning for such staggering numbers: > > [https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/expert-thinks-actually-50000-new-coronavirus-cases-day-12194129/](https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/expert-thinks-actually-50000-new-coronavirus-cases-day-12194129/) No idea, but here he says he thinks the caseload is doubling every 5 days. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ALQTdCYGISw/maxresdefault.jpg "Professor Neil Ferguson on the current 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak (05-02-2020)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALQTdCYGISw) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/24 "2020-02-09T05:34:26Z")
The advantages of being a hermit living on a dry-lake in the middle of nowhere are starting to reveal themselves. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/25 "2020-02-09T05:45:20Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > The advantages of being a hermit living on a dry-lake in the middle of nowhere are starting to reveal themselves. But one day, an RV with a lone woman and two little kids is going to show up. At first you’ll warn them off. But then you notice the sad eyes on the kids and you relent… ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/26 "2020-02-09T06:05:48Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > There is a silver lining in every mushroom cloud. The real silver lining of this is its effect on carbon emissions. There’ve been tens of thousands of airline flights canceled already and tens of thousands more in the next couple months. Tens or hundreds of millions of workers in China have taken an unplanned week off and also not engaging in social activities or even driving much during that time. However, that reduction will likely pale in comparison to that from the coming recession caused by those workers not working for that week. Some factories in other countries have already had to curtail operation because they can’t get parts from China. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471/27 "2020-02-09T06:59:36Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > But one day, an RV with a lone woman and two little kids is going to show up. At first you’ll warn them off. But then you notice the sad eyes on the kids and you relent… A RV and 2 cats with flashy blue eyes. (:)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-accelerating/847471.md?page=1)