Posted on 03/12/2020 4:41:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy -- which, of course, is exactly what it is.
But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is to hurt, maim or kill as many of us as it can.
COVID-19 may not have jets, tanks or nukes, like our past enemies. But its arsenal, numbers, cunning and willpower are said to be formidable.
To win its war against Americans, COVID-19 must infect and sicken lots of Americans each day. If it cannot infect enough victims to multiply and sustain a hungry army of viruses, COVID-19 will soon sputter and die. It will get trapped in just a few hosts among an otherwise victorious and healthy nation of about 330 million.
Nature has given COVID-19 some weapons that its defeated cousins -- the H1N1 swine flu and the MERS and SARS viruses -- lacked.
It is more clever by being less lethal -- and a little tougher in its ability to live outside a host. Viral resiliency ensures that it rarely turns into a suicide bomber by dying with a terminally sick host, and that it does not perish so quickly when orphaned in the air and on surfaces.
The coronavirus has allies. It infiltrates our defenses by using our own weapons against us -- our dirty hands, the habitual touching of the face, and indiscreet sneezing and coughing.
Poor personal and public hygiene gives the virus some sustenance and camouflage. To win -- defined as sickening or killing thousands of us -- COVID-19 counts on our laxity. It hates careful individuals who block its invasion into the eyes, nose and mouth.
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Try this thought experiment. Envision abortion, also known as CHOICE, as a living, breathing enemy -- which, of course, is exactly what it is.
It is going kill about 3,000 today; just in the USA.
Do NOT try to find any news about it from our media; as it is a fool's errand.
whether ebola or coronavirus,
the viral invaders always will have the DEMOCRATS
working for them.
specifically, it has been
Pelosi and Schumer WORKING FOR THEM
to infect America,
through the borders,
through feces in SF,
through the criminal illegals,
through the terrorists they IMPORT,
through the time/$
they waste by attacking the ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Shouldn’t the size of the country’s population be taken into account?
Got another chart that has scaled those absolute numbers?
It’s a good way of explaining it to stubborn people who think they are invincible so they become spreaders.
The great swine flu was upon us and Obama purposely dragged his skinny a## and the media kept the seriousness and the fatalities from us!
Any graphs at this point are approximations due to widely varying inputs.
They are helpful aids here and now, not post-pandemic textbook illustrations.
That it is less lethal is its STRENGTH.
VERY interesting.
Can’t dump and burn the dead..never to spread their illness again.
I’m sure that it can’t think at this level...but it was and is taken a little more lightly by more than a few (including myself to some extent) because it’s not a death sentence, like ebola.
Its only drive is to infect and replicate. There can be no appealing to its better nature. No peace treaties. No Geneva convention rules.
But the UN would still make it a permanent member with veto power :)
(Caronavirus) “It is more clever by being less lethal”
And yet just yesterday I read it was 10 times more deadly than the common viruses.
Yet more evidence this is all major BS and purely political.
We won WWII because General Marshall fired a lot of generals and promoted competent warfighters. Eisenhower and Patton's were Colonel as was George Kenney.
As a result of the virus, sea levels will rise and obliterate New York and Miami.
They will look worde and worse if they continue to snipe.
No! That is the point of exponential increases. The important number is the number of newly infected / day divided by the number of presently infected. If it doubles every three days, it doesn't matter where you start. Soon most of your population will have been infected. The difference between infecting all of Italy and all of the US is about 1/2 of a week.
By plotting the numbers on a log graph you can determine the alpha for each country and as Travis's plot shows it is pretty much the same country to country.
Now, if you were to show plots for Taiwan or Singapore or China you would see very different patterns because they have broken the chain of multiplication through effective public health measures.
You are a clueless idiot understanding neither what you just read nor what you just wrote.
Nature did not endow this pathogen with the ability to defeat the immune system of most of the human species, perhaps in waves of infection.
it took an intelligent designer.
A human one.
You’re like the captain of the Titanic after it’s hit the iceberg. Complete denial
Excellent point, Elsie.
Also population density should be taken into account. Places like Wyoming have no coronavirus.
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