Young and unafraid of the pandemic? Good for you. Now stop killing people

Post by sgt101 » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

tsbinz wrote: post #158

kilotaras wrote: post #157

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> and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!). No. Once you are one of those 60% you either die or get immunity.

It depends. The seasonal flu mutates enough between seasons that last year's immunity doesn't help you much. If we're lucky, this one doesn't do that, or it mutates in a way that symptoms aren't as severe (since causing the host to die or to be isolated in ICU is also bad for the virus, so there's evolutionary pressure towards less severe symptoms).

Post by bmn__ » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 12:37 PM UTC

mpol wrote: post #162

sgt101 wrote: post #161

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This isn't flu, Corona's don't mutate in this way.

There are many weaker coronaviruses floating around that give the common cold. We are still getting the common cold from those, so apparently it mutates in a way that our immmunesystem can't stop it.

Post by szemy2 » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

kilotaras wrote: post #157

Balgair wrote: post #155

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That's ~670 9/11 attacks' worth of dead. ~350x the number of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. ~10x the Civil War. ~3x the yearly heart disease deaths. ~1 death every 0.75 seconds And this'll occur before June, and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!). If this thing is anywhere near 1% mortality, the US really is in for a tough time. Yeah, you're right, that is stunning I really need to call my…

> and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!). No. Once you are one of those 60% you either die or get immunity.

Post by swayvil » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

mercer wrote: post #164

swayvil wrote: post #68

We are telling a billion impoverished millennial-somethings that they can murder their wealthy elders with minimal risk and guilt. Heck, there's a whole generation of food-service workers who couldn't take a sick-day even if they wanted to. Will they weep if that pizza kills a retired plutocrat?

I'm not even entirely unsympathetic to that line of thought, but the big problem is that my parents and grandparents are in the risk group too, and they're in no way in the 'I got mine', 'Ok Boomer', 'fuck your future and fuck the environment' cohort. And I suspect many of the 'elderly' that I don't personally care about are similarly innocent.

Post by balls187 » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

brianTheDog wrote: post #124

balls187 wrote: post #114

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Yes. That happens routinely, usually but not always, if society deems your free will is a threat to it.

Doesn’t seem logical. Why protect someone with such a weak immune system so they can pass it on to the next generation? That makes society weaker.