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Old 04-10-2020, 07:09 PM
 
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I graduated from government schools. No idea.
It's just flu. If you are young and healthy you've just a hair over diddly-squat to be afraid of. Third hand smoke will be more likely to kill you.

 
Old 04-10-2020, 07:14 PM
 
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It's just flu. If you are young and healthy you've just a hair over diddly-squat to be afraid of. Third hand smoke will be more likely to kill you.
Do you think docs and hospital people on the front line would agree with you?
 
Old 04-10-2020, 07:15 PM
 
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Do you think docs and hospital people on the front line would agree with you?
Get off your butt and go look at the statistics rather than allow quacks in white coats to tell you what to think.
 
Old 04-10-2020, 07:20 PM
 
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Get off your butt and go look at the statistics rather than allow quacks in white coats to tell you what to think.
I'm a recently retired white coat quack! lol
 
Old 04-10-2020, 07:45 PM
 
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I have looked at the stats. We are closing in on 20 thousand dead people. Plenty more to come. Their age (to me) is irrelevant, because I am not thinking about the risk to me. Neither should you.
 
Old 04-10-2020, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Oklahoma
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Get off your butt and go look at the statistics rather than allow quacks in white coats to tell you what to think.
Why bother. When we show you stats that indicate the COVID-19 is more lethal than flu and that COVID-19 has moved to the #1 spot in terms mortality among all causes of death on a daily basis. You will just go with "Fake News" or "Fake Stats"
 
Old 04-11-2020, 12:56 AM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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Why bother. When we show you stats that indicate the COVID-19 is more lethal than flu and that COVID-19 has moved to the #1 spot in terms mortality among all causes of death on a daily basis. You will just go with "Fake News" or "Fake Stats"
No joke. I mean, the status says "It's literally just the flu" which indicates he either doesn't know what "literally" means or doesn't know that influenza and coronavirus are two different types of viruses.
 
Old 04-11-2020, 08:40 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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I think many of you underestimate your regular old daily chance of dying. In a year, it's about 1%.

Yep. Of all the death around you - accidents, strokes, heart attacks, cancer, bullets, snake bites and boat accidents -all adds up to your odds of about 1 in a 100. Now add in the COVID -where your odds are ALSO 1 in a 100.
Drowning deaths are a biggie, too, especially young children around swimming pools and anyone in the ocean when the surf is rough, there are rip currents, and/or the "No Swimming" red flags are up.

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So if you catch COVID - seems to me you are twice as likely to die as you were before...no? 2 in a 100?

With that in mind - yep - it's priceless. It is - literally - worth ALL the other death combined. It's THAT bad. Don't believe it? Get out a calculator and find my mistake.
I hear ya.
 
Old 04-11-2020, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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It seems at this juncture that approximately 1% of those who are infected succumb to the virus (RIP), and a study from Italy showed that 99.2% of those dying had at least one serious underlying condition. So, what is the percentage likelihood that a healthy adult would catch the disease and then succumb to it? Would it be 1% x .08%?

P.S. I was horrible with word problems in junior high and still would be. (I have other talents.)
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Pretty good odds of survival.
That's not how it works.

The Laws of Economics apply to healthcare whether people like it or not.

Medical staff, medical equipment, medical supplies, time and space, those do not exist in infinite quantities.

Your survival rate is dependent in part on the availability of doctors and nurses to treat you with the necessary medical equipment and medical supplies.

Once your hospitals are overwhelmed, it's over.

There are more patients than doctors and nurses could possibly treat in an hour, much less a day, there aren't enough ventilators and you burned through all the medical supplies, because later on organs start shutting down.

Even if you manufactured 100% of your medical supplies in the US, every hospital is screaming for them and you can't manufacture or ship them fast enough.

Just-in-Time-Inventory works great when you don't have a crisis, but when you need that injection now, right now to save your life, arriving tomorrow on UPS Next-Day-Air just doesn't get it.

The hospitals in Italy are overwhelmed and that's why they have 322 deaths per Million instead of 61 deaths per Million like in the US.

Should your hospitals get overwhelmed, then you'll have 322 deaths per Million just like Italy.
 
Old 04-11-2020, 02:59 PM
 
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Why bother. When we show you stats that indicate the COVID-19 is more lethal than flu and that COVID-19 has moved to the #1 spot in terms mortality among all causes of death on a daily basis. You will just go with "Fake News" or "Fake Stats"
People in their 20's-40's have like a 0.2% chance of dying of coronavirus. Ticks up marginally for people in their 50's and doesn't even get significant until 60+ and in poor health to be begin with. It is about as lethal as the ordinary flu.
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