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That'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.
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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.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
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 t…
How? He is not advocating to take things likely. He is not promoting dangerous practices nor a cavalier attitude.
This is just some person sharing his first hand experience.
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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.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
That'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.
This is a virus that in it's milder forms generally just causes a cold. I've never stayed home from anything because of a cold. Colds are just a fact of life. I imagine a lot of people feel similarly.
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 t…
How about we agree to be diligent but also not overreact.
Why do we still call it "The Coronavirus", despite the fact that the common cold is caused by coronaviruses and rhinoviruses [1]? Like, with the H1N1 flu we had a more specific name. Isn't it morally important to provide the public with nuance? i.e., "there is a bad version of the common cold this year, so watch out, especially if you are over 60". [1] Falsey, A. R., Walsh, E. E., & Hayden, F. G. (2002). Rhinovirus a…
Let me know on day 8 or 9. That’s when you find out if you’re one of the lucky ones to develop pneumonia.
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.