Posted on 03/01/2020 8:01:54 PM PST by upchuck
That’s a good question. ;)
Can’t be right. I’m sure I’ve pinged to more than that...
The Wu Flu or the Kung Flu are my favorite names for it
It’ll pass.
I do however, think we should do some things to help it:
Remember to wash your hands.
If sick, stay home.
If you can work from home, work from home.
If you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth with something other than your hand. Wash again.
Have at least enough supplies on hand to not HAVE to go out for a couple of weeks - just like if the flu is particularly prevalent or if there’s a winter storm. Maybe update that up to a *couple* more weeks of non-perishables things since this seems to hang around for a few weeks.
If you have to go out while sick, THEN the mask is useful - to help you keep your snot to yourself.
Other extreme stuff like that.
You complain about not wanting to be censored, then you advocate pushing people off this board.
Funny thing. We dont hear of those who had it, and now gotten over it.
Like the one or two in AZ. The one at ASU who got over it and is now back in school.
Do not hear about those now do we?
All we hear is..MY GOD ANOTHER ONE COMES DOWN WITH IT.
Was in town today. business as usual. Nobody is wearing masks, nobody is filling up their cars with months of supplies, nobody is doing anything other than the usual things.
The disease has an established case fatality rate of 2%, and is so contagious everyone will probably encounter it after a year or so. Potentially one in fifty Americans, or about six million, Americans alone, dying seems like a big thing to me, but maybe not to others, I guess.
Good post.
I work in healthcare, and by habit I wash my hands dozens of times a day, and by habit, I don’t touch my eyes, face, mouth or nose until I have washed my hands. Those areas seem to KNOW when you can’t scratch them, and they always get itchy during those times. It can be a pain.
During times like this, it is not a bad habit to have. Common sense.
When it’s all over, I’m sure we will see fewer posts.
Why are we still seeing posts on the primaries or President Trump doing anything?
Because both continue to happen.
Take a chill pill, Frances.
A school trip to Europe returns in mid-February.
The kids live their lives infecting surfaces in their school, their homes, wherever else they hang out (hopefully not as a cashier at McDonalds).
They infect others who infect others who infect others for two weeks and then show symptoms so they are tested.
_Then_ they close the school.
Oops.
Nothing to see here...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus. Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 17 countries, with the majority of cases in mainland China and Hong Kong. A death rate at about 9 percent to 12 percent of those who were diagnosed.
MERS-CoV was first identified in a patient in Saudi Arabia in 2012. As with SARS, the disease looks like severe pneumonia; with MERS, patients also have gastrointestinal symptoms, and sometimes experience kidney failure. Since 2012, 27 countries have reported cases, with 2,494 people confirmed infected and 858 dead, mostly in Saudi Arabia. All cases of MERS, the CDC stipulates, have been linked back to people who live in or have traveled to the Arabian Peninsula.
The WHO reports that about 35 percent of MERS-infected people have died, with health care workers at highest risk—though, since MERS can also result in such mild symptoms that a person may have it without knowing it, that death rate is almost certainly inflated.
Currently the death rate for this coronavirus is about 3.5%, with 89,073 infected resulting in 3,046 reported deaths. With the overwhelming numbers in China itself. But what percentage of those deaths were of people who had underlying conditions to begin with? These viruses are going to affect those with deficient immune systems much more severely than those with more robust immune systems. The fact that this corona virus has the same symptoms as the flu means that a lot of people probably did not seek medical attention until it became absolutely necessary to do so, thereby providing time to spread the disease more. So initial blush is to believe there is a rapid spread occurring, when the spread my have started earlier then we think.
At any rate it is really far too early to know exactly how bad this is, but the numbers really do not warrant the hysteria being generated. Is it something to be aware of, absolutely, and unless you live under a rock, I think that awareness exists in spades.
All you are providing is wild claims that really have no basis in reality. So far about 10,00 lives in America alone have been taken by the flu season, but I don't hear the panic with regards to that. The CDC estimates the impact from this flu season will be 32,000,000 – 45,000,000 flu illnesses, 14,000,000 – 21,000,000 flu medical visits, 310,000 – 560,000 flu hospitalizations, resulting in 18,000 – 46,000 flu deaths, and that is just in the U.S.
12 out of 50? Is that all? That’s only 24%. Which means that 76% are about something else.
Maybe posting about COVID-19 isn’t as infectious as we thought. All you virus posters better get crackin’ and find some more stories to post. May shot for a goal of 30%-that won’t be too hard.
Agreed. It is time to find out how the brains of the censors don’t work.
Except it doesn’t have an established mortality of 2%. But, hey, why let facts get in the way for fear mongering.
agree-this is more about alarmist fear mongering than prudent action-90 people in the US die of car accidents every single day on average, 3 million a year injured -more-yet you don’t see people afraid to get in cars, or live threads with constant rumors. If you want to monitor severe carnage-auto deaths are and will be much bigger than SARS, EBOLA or Corona virus in this country.
I get a lot of people like something bigger in the news to avoid dealing with their daily life but this is just irrational , enough already, the reason to stop fueling this is this just helps elect President Sanders
So what??!!??
I am tracking this, not only for news, but for work also.
FR is one of the best aggregator sites around.
You don’t like it, go back and play Nintendo.
Panic-people who obsessively cannot stop talking breathlessly about it which would include Democrats, large swaths in the media, and even some people here.
Of course, they wouldn’t define it as panic, would they? They would define it as preparation and concern.
Can’t do anything about it, so they talk about it. You will notice I pointedly didn’t ask anyone to stop posting about it.
At this time, concern is warranted. Obsession is not, in my opinion.
Well said. That’s what I was thinking too.
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