This is worrying: thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/…

@RandomPerson OMG

According to WHO the Nipah virus has 40-75% case fatality rate!

yeah... I guess far worse than COVID..

or maybe I am wrong.

@BeastOfCaerbannog yeah, in one outbreak the fatality rate was 92% I think

This is both good and bad news. The good news is that such high fatality rate means that the virus cannot spread a lot. The bad news is that you are very likely to die if you catch it.

I could of course be wrong though.

it also seems to be way less transmissible than COVID

which is extremely transmissible

@BeastOfCaerbannog hmm.. Hopefully things become normal soon 🤞🏽

@RandomPerson Things will become normal when humans are taken out of existence, but that's another story. :P

@BeastOfCaerbannog haha..

@Zanna You're still here! I thought you would take a day (or week) off.

Even I was surprised to see Zanna in the chatrooms today..

@BeastOfCaerbannog I smelled smoke and suspected the chat was on fire

in fact, it was some sort of ritual going on in the building adjacent to the one I live in

nonetheless on examining the chat it seemed like I could make myself way more useful than usual there (I mean usually I confine myself to goofing around)

I guess I'll find a better time to take a break :S

@Zanna sounds as if the chat is being compared to a kitchen. Just kidding.

a place to cook up interesting plots

haha..

@Zanna Hahahaha!