# Factual questions about Wuhan virus, most of which relevant to "medical:" GQ or IMHO? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 15, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989 "2020-02-15T22:01:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/1 "2020-02-15T22:01:52Z")
Just thought I’d try to get a ruling from On High to keep things simpler and easy… Consider two alternatives: Query 1: “How long will the Wuhan virus stay viable on a surface?”– I would put in GQ. But unsurprisingly the same thought/question originally came to me as Query 2: “Guy diagnosed with Wuhan sneezes into his hand, how worried should I be if he shakes hands with me?”– which either would be bounced right off to IMHO or often would be as the thread gets going. [🙂 I guess this OP is a version of the old research/translational medicine thing.] I can see SD being truly a good an important place to be true to its name on info on the virus, which actually makes the question of forums a little more important, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/2 "2020-02-15T23:04:21Z")
“How worried should I be” is a solicitation of opinion no matter what the subject is. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/3 "2020-02-15T23:10:59Z")
Maybe new questions about it should be directed one of the other 57 coronavirus threads currently open here. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/4 "2020-02-16T00:58:03Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Maybe new questions about it should be directed one of the other 57 coronavirus threads currently open here. If it’s that bad, there should only be one thread. Maybe two at most. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/5 "2020-02-16T02:00:05Z")
Well, there were, at first. But the threads are contagious. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/6 "2020-02-16T11:36:20Z")
One might say they’re viral. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/factual-questions-about-wuhan-virus-most-of-which-relevant-to-medical-gq-or-imho/847989/7 "2020-03-14T20:44:17Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “How worried should I be” is a solicitation of opinion no matter what the subject is. ie not GQ. … and one or two other replies in this thread– Umm…just a heads up: [How concerned should I be about eating fast food in the covid-19 pandemic?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891668) Mods attack! Show no mercy! [I love you guys anyway.]