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COVID-19 is real
Mar 11, 2020, 5:25 PM
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I will miss the fan hysteria of March Madness but the NCAA decision is just the first of many more such moves. My prayer is that researchers will find help and that the negative, young people will put themselves in a place of understanding and common sense.
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Re: COVID-19 is real
Mar 11, 2020, 5:50 PM
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the Virus is real and the pandemic is certainly real. This is going to be an interesting few months.
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Re: COVID-19 is real
Mar 11, 2020, 5:50 PM
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the Virus is real and the pandemic is certainly real. This is going to be an interesting few months.
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Re: COVID-19 is real
Mar 11, 2020, 5:57 PM
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A lot of uproar over it but the flu has killed 43,000 people in America since last October...
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Yes...a "real" pain in the a$$ !!!***
Mar 11, 2020, 6:07 PM
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Re: Yes...a "real" pain in the a$$ !!!***
Mar 11, 2020, 6:38 PM
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So far, there have been an estimated 19 million cases of FLU in the US since January 1, 2020 180,000 hospitalizations
10,000 deaths in the U.S. this influenza season
including 68 children
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Since October 26,000,000 cases of FLU have been confirmed in the US
Since October 14,000 people have died in the US
So far there have been 50 deaths from coronavirus-19 in the US.
Coronavirus spreading globally, many recover
For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.
According to the CDC and WHO
YOU decide what is more deadly the flu or coronavirus-19. But by all means you are free to overact!!!!
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Let's say Coronavirus equals the flu in total cases
Mar 11, 2020, 11:28 PM
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20 million to match your numbers. It's 4 million hospitalized and 400,000 to 600,000 dead.
43 million had the flu in 2018-2019 season.
Harvard predicts 20-60% of US will get coronavirus- 60 to 150 million.
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Re: Let's say Coronavirus equals the flu in total cases
Mar 12, 2020, 12:00 AM
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Wow - Harvard is very tight on their prediction ... I say 0-100 % of US will contract coronavirus .. -">
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Re: COVID-19 is real--of course it is, BUT
Mar 11, 2020, 11:34 PM
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You don't "stop" a pandemic.
And I don't believe the experts are telling us we can dodge it.
It must run its course. Farr's Law of Pandemics is real, too. It says that the wave of contamination is like a bell curve, starting small before becoming widespread and then fading.
The experts are trying to shallow out the bell curve because we do not have medical supplies or sufficient health care providers if the whole population were exposed at once. I agree that's the best plan of action, on the whole.
However, by "shallowing" the bell curve, you're also lengthening it. If the entire population had been exposed naturally, the pandemic would have run its course, had its effect and gone away in, say 3-6 weeks (we don't know really. ) But by encouraging semi-reclusion, we are extending the life cycle of the pandemic to at least twice its normal duration. Yes, we are making its' effects more manageable by spreading them over longer time, but don't make the mistake that you're preventing people from getting it.
Universities are overreacting because they deal with international communities, and because their primary 'customers' are young people, overreacting must be a part of their business model.
But young adults have the strongest immune systems on earth. Not a single college athlete in America will die from Corona. So colleges ARE overreacting.
And by sustaining the life cycle of the pandemic, you're actually guaranteeing that the most susceptible members of society will get it. Elderly folks who treasure their independence are now staying home, and hope they can re-emerge from their shells in a few weeks. But when the pandemic is still everywhere 12 weeks from now because we slowed its spread, do you really think those susceptible folks can stay at home forever? They have to emerge eventually, if only to go to the doctor! And when they do, they will encounter the virus in spite of everyone's precautions.
You can't beat the wave, and you can't avoid it. All you can do is expose yourself to it in the most favorable conditions possible.
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Re: COVID-19 is real
Mar 12, 2020, 12:22 AM
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The virus is real but the spin put on it is a bunch of bs.
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Re: COVID-19 is real
Mar 12, 2020, 12:38 AM
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It's doing a great job of killing the elderly who already have one foot in the grave with health issues, much like any other virus or illness would do to them. The death rate and virus only seems worse cause it's attacking and killing the weak. Anybody else or under the age of 60 recover rather quickly. It'll blow over just like Ebola and swine flu. It's funny Jordan played a garwith game with the flu and was praised for it. We survived everything else, this is no different.
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