Not to sound insensitive, but at 88y, pretty much living becomes letal.
I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
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Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#12And I had the flu.. it nearly killed me. Can we please stop this nonsense
I think after the success of the media in respect to this virus (massive amounts of clicks and TV view time), I firmly believe that every new flu will have it's own name and similar coverage from now on. They just made too much money off this, fear is a big seller.
Even if one was this cynical, do you not think a novel (not influenza) virus with an unusually high mortality rate spreading internationally is worthy of news coverage?
The media didn't name this thing, nor SARS, nor avian bird flu.
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#13Those who died from the virus aren’t writing in to tell us it’s very bad, so there’s that. Edit: To be clear, I’m not being dismissive of this patient’s experience; just want to point out the element of survivorship bias.
I think this mans perspective is important. For the vast majority of people who get this it isn’t much different then having a cold or the flu. The large majority of people this is killing are elderly, whose immune systems are less likely to successfully defend.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
But that is not the picture painted by media day in and day out. There is so much hype and sensationalism with this story. They would have us believe it’s the zombie apocalypse out there, and I just don’t think that is the reality.
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#14That's why it's so dangerous. For 80% of people it's a mild cold. - so they go to work like normal.
80% don’t require hospitalization, but a significant fraction of those still involve pneumonia (not to mention high fever, muscle soreness, etc.).
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#15And I had the flu.. it nearly killed me. Can we please stop this nonsense
I think after the success of the media in respect to this virus (massive amounts of clicks and TV view time), I firmly believe that every new flu will have it's own name and similar coverage from now on. They just made too much money off this, fear is a big seller.
Except that this is significantly more dangerous than the seasonal flu. 6 people already died on the Diamond Princess out of about 600 detected positive cases, this is one to two orders of magnitude more than the seasonal flu.
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#16Not to sound insensitive, but at 88y, pretty much living becomes letal.
You're an asshole.
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#17Those who died from the virus aren’t writing in to tell us it’s very bad, so there’s that. Edit: To be clear, I’m not being dismissive of this patient’s experience; just want to point out the element of survivorship bias.
The message is clear to me: don't panic. And it is a good one, even if things were (or are) worse than this experience, panic won't help.
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#18The Guardian today have another story titled “To hell and back”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/to-hell-and-ba...
That's why it's important to have positive stories like this one, the media is only focusing on the negative ones even though they only count for < 1% of the real situations.
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#19The Guardian today have another story titled “To hell and back”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/to-hell-and-ba...
Fear is better click bait
Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad
#20That's why it's so dangerous. For 80% of people it's a mild cold. - so they go to work like normal.
This is a time where it would be preferable to live somewhere that has good free/cheap health and social systems: if you're sick, you stay home and there are limited social or financial repercussions.
So many people where I am will just "soldier on" because they have no choice.