A Quick Coronavirus Update

There has been a alternate on the Oman Open given that the day prior to this's put up, plus I desired to clarify a rumor this is making the rounds.

First, you may have heard that Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari have been allowed back into the Oman Open since the testing for the virus came back negative on Wednesday morning. If you've kept up with the news since the outbreak began, you know that this is a change from the more common policy of maintaining the quarantine for another week after a negative test. (In fact, Gagli mentioned that quarantine in his statement to the media. It would have kept him and Molinari out of next week's Qatar Masters.)

This trade from the presently popular method fascinates me. To my understanding, this choice isn't always one that will be followed with the aid of all of the different docs handling the coronavirus. I can handiest consider four motives that this decision would be made.

1. It has been determined that the results of the testing are a sufficient guarantee that the virus isn't a threat in this case.
2. It has been determined that the extra week of observation isn't providing any extra evidence about the virus.
3. There was a monetary reason (with potential bad future effects) that caused the one-week quarantine to be lifted.
4. The decision was made in order to try and limit any potential panic among the public.

Don't underestimate the possibility of that last one. If you've been following the US stock market this week, you know that worries about the coronavirus have sent the markets (we have three main stock markets) plummeting. In fact, the Dow Jones -- the biggest of the three -- fell nearly 1200 points on Thursday, the biggest single-day drop in history. The belief is that fear of (or actual infection by) the virus will adversely affect the US economy (and the world's economies as well) for a prolonged period, both through fear of going out in public and actual sickness.

The longer the coronavirus is a trouble, the more serious that impact might be. So we will count on that all and sundry with the power to affect the perception that the virus is a serious chance will try to persuade the public that lifestyles is intending as ordinary.

And then there is that rumor.

There is a rumor going around that, just as flu tends to be a seasonal problem -- a cold weather problem -- the coronavirus is also likely to cease being a problem once the weather heats up. But, as this article from the New Scientist site points out, at this point we have no evidence that this will happen. We simply don't know enough about the coronavirus to make predictions, and we do know that there are plenty of viruses that spread just as fast in hot weather as they do in cold. So we can't count on that at this point.

However, there may be one useful component that we do understand. It appears that the coronavirus signs and symptoms are similar to flu signs. That won't sound very useful but it does give us as a minimum one possible manner to fight the coronavirus. If you have got flu signs and symptoms, move get checked out by a health practitioner. That may want to assist us sluggish down the unfold of the coronavirus until medical doctors get a take care of on the way to fight it.

I'll get returned to overlaying golfing the next day but this is some thing we ought to all be concerned about... And not best because it will affect golf.