[Trump.Deplorable]

We don’t know the long term affects of this virus, and some of the “recovered” victims do have heart and lung issues. Can you believe being 20 years old and now have the heart and lungs of a 65 year old?

Its not the flu bro

[SoCal Pubbie]

Can you provide a link for the 20 years old you cited bro?

[dgbrown]

“We don’t know the long term affects of this virus, and some of the “recovered” victims do have heart and lung issues. Can you believe being 20 years old and now have the heart and lungs of a 65 year old?

Its not the flu bro”

If the virus is that bad, at what point does “essential” get equated to “expendable”? All for a meager wage. Basically we are telling them to be exposed to the virus so they can feed or protect those that are hiding from that same virus. “Atta boys” only last so long.

[traderrob6]

I have read articles stating that the lung damage is a result of the treatment (veintilators etc) rather than the disease itself.

Don’t be too quick to state theory as fact.

[billyboy15]

It IS the flu which can take many different forms. And why pick on the truly, TRULY minuscule number of 20 or 30 somethings who actually suffer lung damage much less even contract the China Virus? Last chart I saw concerning deaths from this flu by age group the kids and young adults were at .02% and that tiny % is of a number of young who contract this flu which itself is barely notable. It's all over hyped bs and its 100% political. Infections ************************************************************

COVID-19: Approximately 1,446,557 cases worldwide; 399,929 cases in the U.S. as of Apr. 8, 2020.*

Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.

Deaths

COVID-19: Approximately 83,149 deaths reported worldwide; 12,911 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 8, 2020.*

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu

[AndyJackson]

herd immunity requires over 90% infection. If 0.5% death rate per infection are we willing to kill .8*330M*.005 = 1.32 M people. If the death rate is higher, then more die. If it were significantly lower we wouldn’t be having this conversation.