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I have been saying all along that in the end we'll have to accept it as a fact of life, and live accordingly. Eventually it will go away, or become a mere nuisance, but it could take years.
4) Majority of planet population eliminated by the super mutation as the virus learned how to kill more efficiently and defend itself accordingly from each and every attempt to delay ,contain,and/or eradicate it.
My understanding is a safe and effective vaccine for any corona virus is difficult at best.
Currently after 4 months of this, 0.8 percent of the population has tested positive, and that is if you believe all multiple tested positives are weeded out. Herd immunity doesnt seem real likely.
What will save us is better treatments and changes in our personal interactions.
Live life, go to work. Presume you're likely to eventually get it and it probably won't be too bad. It it is, put your adult panties on and deal with it.
There likely won't be a safe and effective vaccine ever due to the nature of the virus.....but it won't matter, no one will care about the virus after the election because the propaganda value will disappear.
"Not letting my life alter/change for .0001% of population"
That's just ignorant. Yep, few people die. Unfortunately, OSHA says if you have a fever, I must send you home. So if you're not going to do anything different to avoid the 'Rona, ya might want to try to avoid the flu, a cold, an STD or a bad hangover - all of them will lead to you being temporarily unemployed in our neighborhood. And uh, by that, I mean, the USA.
But feel free to perpetuate the policies indefinitely by doing absolutely nothing. If enough people are out of work (because of a fever) then maybe YOUR employer will close down too. And you can run around all day, jobless, explaining how your life hasn't been altered.
Much more dangerous than the flu as of now but not nearly as dangerous as some of the media would have you believe. I believe the Covid 19 death rate is around 0.5-1 percent while the flu death rate is 0.02 percent.
Oh you. Using numbers and facts.
2018-2019 Flu season claimed 34,200 Americans and infected 35.5 million. That's 1 in 1038 dead that get the flu. And we take very little action to prevent the spread of the flu.
With COVID-19, we've taken a lot more action - nearly everyone is aware of it and may (or may not) be taking their own precautions as they deem fit. Stores are wiping down shopping carts, card readers, pens - restaurants are limiting dine-in service. Many other Americans are taking action to prevent the spread by those that refuse to actively prevent the spread. As of today, we have 130,000 dead out of 2.75M cases. That's 1 in 21 dead that get COVID-19: 50x as worse as the flu.
If 35.5M Americans had COVID-19, would 1.67M dead Americans be enough to warrant taking more action?
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