Welp, wife just watched a neighbor get lifted down from the third floor on a stretcher and the medics were all wearing masks. Not sure if that's just a precaution or a confirmed case, but it's making me antsy.
Welp, wife just watched a neighbor get lifted down from the third floor on a stretcher and the medics were all wearing masks. Not sure if that's just a precaution or a confirmed case, but it's making me antsy.
RIP Genn Greymane, Permabanned on 8.22.18
Your name will carry on through generations, and will never be forgotten.
Normally you are immune to the specific common cold virus(es) you got at least for the season.
But after a few years you may become less immune - a combination of the virus mutating and your immune system forgetting it - but for many viruses you are still "partially immune"; so the 2nd infection will be lighter.
So, Coronavirus has mortality rate higher than swine flu but lower than Ebola. And in order to keep death count low, governments around the world take precautions so drastic that they create an economic crisis.
Do you guys expect similarly extreme measures every couple years from now on, for future epidemics which will definitely come?
Mostly cause of how it can spread without the infected person showing signs of having it for a long period of time. Hell there are people who were infected without ever showing symptoms and recovered without realizing it. Plus the fatality/complications rate increases as the age bracket increases.
I feel a bit of the disruption in everyday life is due to the fact that the people most at risk are among the wealthiest and influence people in the world. Hell, look at the USA, all your current candidates for president are in the danger zone
It is likely about 1% - when every infected case is detected and confirmed; which isn't the case in many places.
That's why it's meaningless to look at the number of confirmed cases - too little testing in most countries; and the cases that aren't detected vary over time and between countries making it hard to make meaningful comparisons.
In Italy the covid cases are mostly concentrate in one region: Lombardia. Where we got 14.649 positiv to coronavirus and 1.420 deaths.
We got about 1.377 new sick per day, +202 death per day, +66 in Intensive Care. At this rate our concern is about Intensive Care...
The virus cause a bad Pneumonia that can triggering acute respiratory distress syndrome and the treatment involves mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). So, the problem is how many sick people your Health System can cure in Intensive Care... If the number of people that require hospitalization or ICU are higher that your Health System can afford, you die and your Health System collapse.
The perception that people have about Codvid-19 depends on their state of health. If you're lucky it's like a flu, if you're unlucky you die.
Because US got one of the worse Health System... it's better for you to stay at home and keep you safe. Its' the best think you can do by now.
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Bird/Swine flu are only contracted by animals, there's no man-man transition for these. Also a flu virus is common and well-studied, vaccine is easy to make.
Ebola outbreak happened in Africa, the place least relevant to the world economy/travel/logistics. Coronavirus happened in one of the world's largest logistic hub and also a huge roundabout of people. That makes huge difference
The problem with the US is we have system purely based on profit so hospitals don't build emergency just in case facilities for events that may occur every 10 years. We try to have as little beds as possible.
While a universal system tends to have a better ratio because they will prepare for the inevitable as it is in the nations best interest.
Ebola isn't contagious before symptoms appear. It also has a lower reproduction rate. Thus it is much more easily contained, as all contagious people can be identified and isolated.
That's completely unlike COVID-19.
Also, the deaths from COVID-19 will far outstrip those of the swine flu, we're just at the beginning of this pandemic, not the end.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
I think this crisis is gonna bring out the worst in the general populace. Panic shopping is only the beginning. People are just selfish assholes.
seems the firm im working for will close down for a week. better than work with ~ 100 people you cannot know where they were weeks ago and what THEIR relatives were up to. germany will grind to a halt soon, we are closing shops and prohibit activities left and right.
aaah, and only one package of toilet paper per household in my preferred supermarket. yay
I wonder if they gonna enforce closing shops that are not needed. So far, the shop I work at only reduced working hours by one, even though it was already said shops should close.
...and in my supermarket it's 3 packages. Still out before I got one, hope they restock until the weekend or I'm down to wet wipes and shower. Damn hoarders...
They still had small packages at the checkout, but you could only get one if you bought water or beer, no idea whats up with those underhanded tactics. oO