News Is coronavirus a wild card?

@Bengal B . But that doesn't matter. How are you treating life these days? Your nephew says you are a warrior. Mask or no mask? and @HalloweenRun ain't leaving his house until this is over.

 

I don't hide indoors. I go out for a walk every day. And I listen to the real experts on the news instead of wanna be know it alls on Internet message boards.

 

Not in panic at all. Just taking sensible precautions not to be around idiots. A good idea even if there was no virus. Maybe all the idiots will get sick and die.
@HalloweenRun is the one in full fledged panic mode

 

There isn't a disease powerful enough for that to happen.

 

Well this virus is testing my marriage but all is well in the Kiki household I am happy to say. I am too old and too much of a curmudgeon to fool another woman into marriage so I am lucky. No mask for me and I do agree with Shane we (they) are becoming a bunch of lemmings.

You doing OK with this virus?

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthc...in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation

"In New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic with more than one-third of all U.S. deaths, the rate of death for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01 percent, or 11 per 100,000 in the population. On the other hand, people aged 75 and over have a death rate 80 times that. For people under 18 years old, the rate of death is zero per 100,000.

Of all fatal cases in New York state, two-thirds were in patients over 70 years of age; more than 95 percent were over 50 years of age; and about 90 percent of all fatal cases had an underlying illness. Of 6,570 confirmed COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions to date, 6,520, or 99.2 percent, had an underlying illness. If you do not already have an underlying chronic condition, your chances of dying are small, regardless of age. And young adults and children in normal health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19."



"We know from decades of medical science that infection itself allows people to generate an immune response — antibodies — so that the infection is controlled throughout the population by “herd immunity.” Indeed, that is the main purpose of widespread immunization in other viral diseases — to assist with population immunity. In this virus, we know that medical care is not even necessary for the vast majority of people who are infected. It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship, and then in Iceland and Italy. That has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity. By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing."

"The overwhelming evidence all over the world consistently shows that a clearly defined group — older people and others with underlying conditions — is more likely to have a serious illness requiring hospitalization and more likely to die from COVID-19. Knowing that, it is a commonsense, achievable goal to target isolation policy to that group, including strictly monitoring those who interact with them. Nursing home residents, the highest risk, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry."

 

Well I would rather take advice and counsel from medical professionals I know, than Internet forum peeps I don’t know

 

I mean, 7500+ people were dying PER DAY before COVID. SO yea. It is not only normal, but consistent for over 50K deaths per month......

The US averages 2.8-3 million dead per year to just like........life.

 

My man, doing good. This is more a news story than a real life situation where I am. The belt is untightening here. Still can't see my folks in LA. U be U. But watch out! LOL

 

7,500 per day is a hell of a lot more than 50k a month.