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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

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Post by adnzzzzZ »

40four wrote: post #13
oefrha wrote: post #3

Those 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 se…

The media mostly ignored this story for 1 entire month despite its constant seriousness and despite it being clear that it was the biggest event of the year so far. Only this last week has it picked up on it. For people who have been following it from the start that fact was used as evidence that it was an actually serious problem given that the media was constantly downplaying it or just ignoring it.

In regards to the disease's lethality, even though most people will experience it as just a flu, between 10% to 15% of people experience it bad enough that they need hospital beds. If there's a generalized outbreak in the population like there was in China hospitals will be overloaded and general chaos will ensue, because hospitals in most countries aren't ready to deal with this kind of surge.

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by Medicalidiot »

This is dangerous. Take every precaution you can not to get infected for as long as you can and that you don't infect anyone else. This is not the flu. The flu makes you more susceptible to a material pneumonia and that's how it kills. SARS-CoV-2 is NOT the flu. COVID-19 is the disease, by the way.

Here is the list of complications: -ARDS in 29% (Acute respiratory distress disease, this needs mechanical ventilation to survive) -acute cardiac injury in 12% (this potentially kills your heart tissue which leads to arrhythmia and then a heart attack) -secondary infection in 10%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31986264-clinical-features-o...

This is something you should be very mindful of. A Cavalier attitude can get you or people you care about killed.

Here's the current list of symptoms to know if you're infected with SARS-CoV-2:

fever in 98.6% fatigue in 69.6% dry cough in 59.4% anorexia in 39.9% myalgia in 34.8% dyspnea in 31.2% expectoration in 26.8% pharyngalgia in 17.4% diarrhea in 10.1% nausea in 10.1% dizziness in 9.4% headache 6.5% vomiting in 3.6% abdominal pain in 2.2%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32031570-clinical-characteri...

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by TheAdamAndChe »

40four wrote: post #13
oefrha wrote: post #3

Those 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 se…

It's got a 2% fatality rate. It's going to overload medical facilities in many major cities, is already leading to medicine shortages for meds from China, and will close jobs and schools around the nation. It's not smallpox or anything, but it is major.

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by _jack_cox »

robin_reala wrote: post #7

The Guardian today have another story titled “To hell and back”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/to-hell-and-ba...

From this story sounds like a moderate flu. Fever, coughing, body aches, and congestion.

It does seem like the media is click-baiting the world for profit.

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by zenmaster10665 »

jbverschoor wrote: post #2

And I had the flu.. it nearly killed me. Can we please stop this nonsense

The flu is a pretty well known illness at this point.

This is a serious issue as it has a higher mortality rate than the flu, is spreading quickly and has the potential to evolve into a strain with a much higher mortality rate.

I agree people shouldn't panic, but I don't agree this is just something to be dismissed... The pandemic of 1918 has some lessons to be learned here.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by me551ah »

throwaway122378 wrote: post #19
robin_reala wrote: post #7

The 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

But to dismiss all fearful articles as clickbait is erroneous.

Re: I have the coronavirus. So far, it isn't that bad

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Post by ptx »

goatherders wrote: post #6
jbverschoor wrote: post #2

And I had the flu.. it nearly killed me. Can we please stop this nonsense

what nonsense?

Downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic.

First there was nothing to worry about because it was localized to Wuhan, then there was nothing to worry about because it was only spreading in China and surely would not spread to $YOUR_COUNTRY, then there was nothing to worry about because it was only a few isolated cases that were easily dealt with, and now we seem to be moving into how there's nothing to worry about because, even though the containment has completely failed and it's conceivable that most people in most countries will be infected, you still have a pretty good chance of surviving the infection.

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