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Covid-19
This virus is getting crazy. Just saw the Ivy League canceled their basketball tournaments and spring practice. The NCAA is contemplating canceling the NCAA tourney. Colleges going to online semesters or canceling altogether. I work for a school system in Georgia and it looks like we are about to have a 3 week spring break.
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This is when I knew it was bad:
Yale is moving to online classes until at least early April @YaleDawg
You know, for a hoax they're really selling it well
That's my thought exactly. I believed the hoax narrative, but the longer its going on the more I'm getting actually concerned. My wife is pregnant with our first kid. I'm not trying to take any chances.
I don't think its a hoax but I do believe the media is blowing it way out of proportion.
I have talked to quite a few health care workers and they are saying it just basically a different version of the flu. And it only affects people with compromised immune systems or older people. Chances are at least half the population has had a strain of the corona virus before. Just like the flu it has different strains.
Once the weather warms up it will die off.
Hoax narrative? The one that involved saying the WH wasn’t responding properly? Nobody ever said the virus was a hoax.
I am friends with an ER doctor. He isn’t worried about this, but says people will contract it. He said many won’t even know it, and that the supposed death rate is very likely much lower due to the number of undiagnosed cases.
Two things stand out to him - the virus doesn’t seem to be causing problems with children, and that the fatalities are largely elderly with underlying health conditions.
The only thing “crazy” about this, so far, has been the media-induced panic and fear mongering. It almost seems as if the media would prefer bad things happen.
It's scary because it's new ... ya know.. Kinda like Jamie Newman to opposing defenses
I live very near that Waffle House so that kind of made it feel more real. It's weird seeing this go from starting off in China a couple months ago to now see a case pop up so close to home.
Honestly though unless this thing does some weird mutation or something I don't see what all the noise is about. I feel like we're living inside of the chicken little story the way everyone is reacting. Schools are closing, the stock market is crashing, people are raiding grocery stores, there's talk of literally cancelling March madness and having NBA and MLB games with no fans in attendance. All of this while there are a whopping 500ish cases in the US?
I mean I get you don't want it to spread but this has gone past ridiculous at this point given the fact that we're basically talking about a cold that has infected a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population.
We own a bar. I’m very worried about people staying home out of fear. Take what King County (Seattle) in Washington did last week when they advised all 2.2 million workers to telecommute. The impact to local businesses is tremendous. Just think about all of the restaurants in Seattle who suddenly had their daytime and happy hour business squashed because of a small handful of cases, where every death involved a cluster of elderly people in a nursing home. In this instance, local government has done more damage than anything else. No doubt, the stress of this has likely brought on a heart attack or **** for a small business owner.
This. The media found a story what went viral (pardon the pun) and are driving it home every single moment to generate clicks. The media throws out all sorts of stories daily, and whatever shows the most potential based on viewer feedback is the one that gets pushed. Now we are at the point where organizations are forced out of peer pressure to take drastic measures (like shutting down schools, sporting events, concerts...). Nobody want's to be "that guy" who presses on with their event and someone happens to get sick or test positive...even though people will get sick no matter what you do. All this self-quarantine stuff is absurd.
40,000+ have died due to flu this year already...yet it is not a story because it's just the flu. Sensationalism at it's finest.
You said it yourself, it spread from mainland China to your backyard in a little over 2 months. It’s already killed over 3,000 in China alone. China had a mass quarantine and Italy is doing the same. Blame the media all you want, but maybe look outside the US to see the impact it’s had in other countries in a very short period of time. Then go buy a bunch of toilet paper, because it will always be used eventually.
As long as your wife is generally healthy (no heart/lung disease, diabetes, etc) you should be fine. It's going to be a very contagious cold for most of us. Tell your parents to be cautious though. In the very few people it's actually killed, the average is age is ~ 80.
Not to derail the thread, but our media is broken. These guys are mostly entertainers selling hate and fear for a living. I truly feel for the ones actually trying to inform and survive in the business it's devolved into.
What many people don't realize is how Americans die each flu season. The number of deaths caused by Covid-19 so far is not even close;
"During the 2018-2019 season, the CDC estimates 16.5 million people went to a health care provider for the flu and more than 34,000 people died in the U.S."
I'm not saying that Covid-19 isn't dangerous, especially for the elderly and sick, but the worldwide panic seems out of proportion.
People in the industry in which I work, ones who are much smarter and much more credible than I am have from the earliest days of this virus built predictive models https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10x-worse-than-flu-110th-bad-1918-spanish-pandemic-rex-briggs/, shared academic papers https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJl7NNz6pddn3KMWzTkkuIJVGmH2Gx_qjRrG3qMTuQQ/edit#heading=h.ja7qejen9ori, posted pov's from leading business consultants - https://www.dropbox.com/s/f751quft4o5xfxs/COVID-19-Facts-and-Insights-March-9-final.ashx.pdf.pdf.pdf?dl=0 and provided links to real-time dashboards of Covid 19's reach and impact- https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 not to alarm, but to inform. A lot of this is dense reading, but it's prepared and shared without bias or agenda, so check it out if you have the interest or time.
Just because other countries are imposing mass quarantines doesn't mean it's a rational thing to do. There are still not even 120K confirmed cases in the entire world. From October 2019-February 2020 the CDC estimates there were over 34 million cases of the flu and somewhere between 20-50 thousand deaths directly attributable to it. There were no quarantines, stock market crashes or mass panic associated with the flu. Even though it infected and killed a whole lot more people in a very similar time frame.
Again I get the need to take certain precautions since this is a somewhat new thing but the reaction has gotten totally out of hand in large part because of how the media has handled and peddled the story.