Lets chat about it now. Flu season will be over in about another month. This coronavirus does not do well in the heat and its going to warm up soon. Lets chat about how viruses mutate. They generally mutate weaker not stronger so that is why they peak and then die out.
The simple fact is that most people who get the coronavirus recover completely. There isn’t going to be an epidemic here in the US. In a month or so it won’t even make the news cycle.
All this hype is an attempt to crash our markets and wound our economy.
This coronavirus LOVES airconditioning.
Like that found in hospitals.
In offices.
In stores.
In cars.
In clinics.
Singapore is STILL getting cases (their health care system is on the ball though doing EXTENSIVE testing and contact tracing...our CDC STILL doesn’t test anyone who hasn’t recently been to China).
Temps in Singapore are in the upper 80’s right now as it’s pretty darned close to the equator.
The ‘mutate to become weaker’ sometimes takes YEARS. It took two YEARS for the spanish flu or 1918 to get weaker.
The issue isn’t the 80% of people who recover.
It’s the roughly 20% who don’t. 60% of that 20% need an ICU bed. For up to a month.
How many ICU beds do we have free right now?
If 10,000 people in Atlanta get this, 1200 of them will need an ICU bed.
How many free ICU beds do you think Atlanta has right now?
And it’s not killing ‘just the elderly’.
The latest French death was an actual Frenchman, not a Chinese guy. He was 60. 60 isn’t ‘the elderly’. Guy still went to work every day.
There are 30 somethings with this who are on ventilators.
Even IF this only seriously affects Asians, there are enough citizens of Asian descent to crash out our medical system if this comes here.
The FIRST patient in Washington state was a healthy non smoking 35yr old. Who developed serious pneumonia and required supplemental O2. Had he not gotten the experimental Gilead drug he likely would have been in the ICU for weeks, or died.
If this virus was 1/10th as dangerous as many fellow freepers are proclaiming as fact, there would be hundreds of thousands if not millions of dead bodies scattered across Asia and Europe. The supposed fatality rate of +2-3% is pure fiction based on baseless data. The denominator (total number infected including mild cases) is NOT known thus they use only confirmed cases. For God’s sake influenza cases requiring hospitalization have a fatality rate of ~8-17%! Get a grip people!