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Covid-19
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It’s a big deal because it’s highly infectious and 1 in 10 cases have been reported to require the patient to be admitted to the ICU. At peak flu season, the US does not have the amount of hospital beds required to handle both at the same time. The US has ~3 beds per 1000 people. That’s why the “it’s not even as deadly as the flu” narrative doesn’t hold water. If this spreads in the US as quickly as it has in other countries, our healthcare infrastructure will be quickly overwhelmed. On top of this, the US is not nearly doing as much testing as they should be which makes it seem like there are fewer cases than there truly are. Here are some sources for those who would rather ostrich than prepare...
Source for 10% in ICU https://mobile.twitter.com/marcelsalathe/status/1235662457261023232
Source for 3 hospital beds per 1000 people:
Source for relative lack of testing:
Oh yeah, and here’s an article on why social distancing helps to prevent the spread of a highly infectious disease. I see a lot of misinformation here so I thought I’d include this as well. Of course, if you want to continue to go out in crowded places when there’s a global pandemic occurring, that’s your choice. But to spread misinformation because you’re poorly informed is something that’s very dangerous. Don’t be dumb.
Source:
http://smaldino.com/wp/covid-19-modeling-the-flattening-of-the-curve/
My son is home on spring break. Yesterday got an email to stay home another week. Not sure where they go from there but even if it’s just a week it screws up a lot of vacations Were they to extend school as compensation. My youngest daughter will drive my wife crazy if she is home all the time. Time to roll with the punches
When this all blows over and it turns out to be a whole lot of nothing, I hope someone really takes the media to task for hyping this non-event. It really is a global equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater. The mass hysteria is being fueled continuously by media. People are glued to their news source for new information...and the media loves it.
A friend of mine just said that the people who aren't afraid of the virus are the problem because they could inadvertently spread it to others....W.T.F.? That mentality is the problem. People have been brainwashed to believe they could be making the situation worse just by existing. That's the mentality that convinces people to unnecessarily shut down schools, cancel events, and disrupt everyday happenings over a cold.
See, what's going to happen is the mass quarantining and prevention is going to work, but then it'll look like it wasn't ever dangerous in the first place.
Why are some of y'all trying to blow it out of proportion in the other direction, as if it's just a mild seasonal flu?
Is the sensational American media causing Italy and China to take drastic measures? Boy, I doubt that.
I have a 6 day trip to NYC planned for next month with my son and pregnant wife for his spring break and then a 5 day trip to Maine planned in May with my wife for our anniversary
We are also closing on selling out current house and purchasing a new house at the end of this month and we locked in an incredible interest, historically speaking (3.125%)
so pros and cons for me. not happy about the high probability of canceling my upcoming vacations but love the amount of money I will save in interest of the next few decades. we were trying to get this trips in early in her pregnancy as they will have to be pushed back once the new baby comes. and rates have dropped even more since we locked in our rate, but still happy enough with it
So, presented the following two options:
A) Treat this as an actual threat, because people are getting sick and dying overseas and now domestically, and take measures to prevent the spread
B) Treat this as if nothing is wrong and risk the deaths of thousands of more people just to prevent a month or two of economic regression
You're choosing B?
It's going to spread. It will be mild for most, severe for a few. The prevention tactics, and possibly the warmer weather may help. That is all.
Hope at least the vacation to Maine still works out. Doesn’t seem like a bad place to be at a time like this
I'm choosing to not let this effect my life. I am choosing not to panic over something that is so far down on the global threat list of diseases that it's almost comical. I choose to go about my day and take normal seasonal illness precautions.
I think we can still treat something as a threat without shutting everything down. Maybe I'm wrong and all of this is preventing hundreds of millions of infections and millions of deaths. Thankfully I'm not the one that has to make those decisions but it seems silly to shut down schools and talk of cancelling sporting events when 120K have been infected globally over 2.5 months.
Especially in the US when there are like 500 confirmed cases. Surely there has to be a middle ground between mass panic and completely ignoring everything.
I don't know much, but I know that I woke up today. I am grateful for today.