We have a choice, that's why I post information. F
We can follow Italy to overrun hospitals and a 6+% death rate, or try to get on the Taiwan/S. Korea track, keep our hospitals functioning, and the death rate below 1%.
Posted on 03/12/2020 5:23:25 AM PDT by conservative98
The author of this article studied under Chicken Little.
Oh yes, from the same sorts of people who’ve spent all of these years demanding that the NHL ban fighting and make suits of armour mandatory for all players at all times (full cages mandatory, helmetless warmups being banned, etc) like US NCAA does. Except many of us know how far more violent and dangerous the NCAA brand of hockey has been because of having those rules.
Thank you doctor, and this explains why these sick cruise ships shove off to warm climes during an outbreak. Everyone knows the virus burns off when they enter warm weather.
Cruise ships recirculate the cabin air and it is shared between rooms.
It is simply too expensive to air condition 100% fresh air all the time
Don't you love some guy living in his Mom's basement with her 12 year old laptop and an internet connection is an infectious disease specialist and can post doomsday articles and sound like he's contributing.
(This is what’s coming, Italian-style.)
YOUNG AND UNAFRAID OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC? GOOD FOR YOU. NOW STOP KILLING PEOPLE | OPINION
A DOCTOR IN WESTERN EUROPE
ON 3/11/20
Put aside statistics. Here is how it looks in practice. Most of my childhood friends are now doctors working in north Italy. In Milan, in Bergamo, in Padua, they are having to choose between intubating a 40-year-old with two kids, a 40-year old who is fit and healthy with no co-morbidities, and a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, because they don’t have enough beds. In the hallway, meanwhile, there are another 15 people waiting who are already hardly breathing and need oxygen.
The army is trying to bring some of them to other regions with helicopters but it’s not enough: the flow is just too much, too many people are getting sick at the same time.
We are still awaiting the peak of the epidemic in Europe: probably early April for Italy, mid-April for Germany and Switzerland, somewhere around that time for the UK. In the U.S., the infection has only just begun.
But until we’re past the peak, the only solution is to impose social restrictions.
And if your government is hesitating, these restrictions are up to you. Stay put. Do not travel. Cancel that family reunion, the promotion party and the big night out. This really sucks, but these are special times. Don’t take risks. Do not go to places where you are more than 20 people in the same room. It’s not safe and it’s not worth it.
But why the urgency, if most people survive?
Here’s why: Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many more ways than just straight-up killing you. “We are all young”—okay. “Even if we get the bug, we will survive”—fantastic. How about needing four months of physical therapy before you even feel human again. Or getting scar tissue in your lungs and having your activity level restricted for the rest of your life. Not to mention having every chance of catching another bug in hospital, while you’re being treated or waiting to get checked with an immune system distracted even by the false alarm of an ordinary flu. No travel for leisure or business is worth this risk.
Now, odds are, you might catch coronavirus and might not even get symptoms. Great. Good for you. Very bad for everyone else, from your own grandparents to the random older person who got on the subway train a stop or two after you got off. You’re fine, you’re barely even sneezing or coughing, but you’re walking around and you kill a couple of old ladies without even knowing it. Is that fair? You tell me.
Pass this idea around and watch the MSM change its tune about the Wuhan Flu.
Hehehe
Absolutely, thank you very much!
We have a choice, that's why I post information. F
We can follow Italy to overrun hospitals and a 6+% death rate, or try to get on the Taiwan/S. Korea track, keep our hospitals functioning, and the death rate below 1%.
Is the Philippines a warm place?
Manila lockdown order went out today. Manila has "community spread" of CV, even in the tropics.
See 32. Manila now on lockdown.
You have made a very good point. The treatment for this disease is worse than the disease. Go about business as usual and let those that are afraid of the disease to self quarantine. I’m old with preexisting medical conditions. However, I’m at end of life anyway and it’s not worth destroying young people’s financial status to save a few old geezers. I can self quarantine myself.
My God that’s a huge nose
Especially in the south where it is warmer.
For the 2020 elections, we’ve been expecting a Soros-minded attack on the economy to at least damage R’s and Trump. It was done in 2008. The only question is how would it be done this time.
Well, here it is folks. In plain “hidden” sight. What better way than to use panic to crash the stock market, and get businesses, schools, and the economy to self-destruct. Leaves Soros and his minions with little in the way of fingerprints for forensic analysis.
just cancel the country. We have become a mass of snowflakes. Last one out turn out the lights
If we really want to save lives, we will ban motorcycles.
If we really want to save lives, we will ban motorcycles.
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