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Covid-19 and the USA

I hope there aren't too many people out there with such blinkered knowledge as one out there. He seems unaware that the virus is already deep rooted in your country. And even if there are people who have yet to meet someone and breathe the same droplet inflected air, they soon will. It is likely that everyone will encounter this pandemic. I believe I actually had it myself just after the New Year, unknowingly of course. It can be mild. But it can also wipe out great swathes of society. It is possible to treat the symptoms with isolation and intensive care, but how many hospital beds do you have in the USA? Enough to care simultaneously with, let's be optimistic, only 5% of your population? I calculate that as 16.7 million people will become seriously infected requiring, if you're not careful, simultaneous treatment. Now, I know from personal experience that your health system ranks with the best in the world, if not the best. But, 16 million people in a short peaked bell curve? No, it can't. So, your only alternative is to lock down seriously by zones. This transfers just as easily at a soccer match or baseball game or children's birthday party. It is non discriminatory. If, as you suggest, New Orleans is a centre of social interaction, then yes, of course it too will suffer. So it, like everywhere else, must be locked down. And with minimal exception other than to support the health care machine trying to cope against an invisible tsunami. You must flatten the bell curve, now, and for months to come. The alternative is more stark than your understanding could comprehend.

One final point. This pandemic virus is bad enough without the potential exacerbation of civil unrest if people segregate parts of society off for whatever ill-considered blame and possibly homophobic prejudice. Simply not helpful and redirecting attention away from the simple fact that "we are ALL in the same boat, worldwide".

Please, do reconsider your dismissal of this virus as merely a sniveling cold. As good as the USA might be, it doesn't have 16 million coffins or graves. It will, like Iran, have to resort to mass pits and trenches.
[quote] The 1918 flu, which was known as the Spanish flu, didn't actually originate in Spain. It had a mortality rate of 2.5% and killed more people — 30 million to 50 million — than the 20 million who died in World War I. If the 4.5% mortality rate of COVID-19 drops, it won't be as bad as the 1918 flu. If it continues on its current trajectory, it will be almost twice as deadly.[/quote]

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Article by Berkeley Lovelace, Jr.
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
@Valentine Don’t think you mentioned it but In my opinion it cures pretty much anything 😂😂
JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 that assumes that everyone that still has it will survive

If you don’t understand the basics of epidemiology, please just stop.
Valentine · M
@JoeyFoxx 👏👏👏
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
I won't get into an argument with any one person here about the dangers of covid19, but if you believe it isn't dangerous, that all of the physicians, scientists and others are part of a giant conspiracy to frighten the world, what do you think is in it for them to do this? By the way, you need to look at the rapid escalation of not only the diagnosed cases, but the hospitalizations and deaths. They are increasing in a geometric fashion. Those are figures that cannot be refuted.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@hippyjoe1955 I have been on many conference calls about the covid19 pandemic, local, state and national. No one has actually stated and estimate of deaths. A lot depends upon available therapy, including ventilators, and more important a new vaccine.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@samueltyler2 I certainly hear the models being cited in the pressers.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@hippyjoe1955 they vary depending on current data, but there are none which express optimism, except those out of the mouth of a madman! He has no touch with reality!
TheCat · 31-35
I live in China.

I went out almost every day and worked in high risk areas during the outbreak and after a few days I got a little temperature rise(small fever) for two days,it's still considered in the normal temperature range so it didn't stop me.

The truth is the virus couldn't break through to make me sick.

The fact is that some of the statics are made up in today's society because it doesn't represent the benefit of people anymore,which makes the whole thing not believable enough in a worldwide view. And American know this thing better than any other country in the world.

It only takes the power to do nothing to save the weak. But they wouldn't, because their existence as the power is to make the weak stay weak to show their power.

You have to accept the fact that not everyone is on the same boat. Some just enjoy riding the Titanic and waiting it to hit an iceberg unknowingly/knowingly.

The government/system is just doing their routine/job.
Can/Will you save the boat with no rewards attached?
Or have you already prepared your ensured lifeboat?
Is it possible for you to prepare safe boats for everyone?

It's impossible to cause another world war nowadays because a lot things are worldwide now.
But people haven't changed much since World War1,which means about the same amount of people will die every year(few years),the new form of war is always undergoing,the difference are: before, people knew they might die;now,people kinda know how they will die but dies accidentally.



Don't you think it's time to save yourself and the people you care about?
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@fairefoutre Says someone who can't do basic math. Too Funny!!!
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This sounds like a guy I know on here. Claims it is just a cold and that people are already immune to it.
Valentine · M
@canusernamebemyusername It would be troll like to confirm. So I won't. But, you might find Q about Iran and Covid-19 interesting...
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Check out Dr Birx's talk today. The greatest danger we face is a silly panic over an non threat. You sound like a frightened little girl squealing in fear as you stand on a table because there is a mouse in the corner. There is no real threat to the general population.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
We are not in the same boat, I want massive population decline
Valentine · M
@Jackaloftheazuresand lol. I'm guessing so long as it's not your family and friends who are massively "declined"?
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
@Valentine Oh no, the entire earth shall fall and as I stand among the corpses of the dead I lift a gun to my head and end the chaos flame of life so that the order of unlife can return to the universe
Aidan · 26-30
And unfortunately I’m still required to go in to work
Valentine · M
@Aidan well, I hope this is for essential reasons and/or you are protected against being infected or infecting others. Take care.

 
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