I have coronavirus...should i keep running?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Ah...i see your glaring error. You don't understand statistics.

You like the median because it's much lower.

But if the median is 5 months and the average is 14 months, that means that the mode is considerably higher than the median and the range is more widespread than you are indicating.

The statistics you showed me, considering the pandemic has been here 8.5 months,actually argue for the case of Covid causing the massive earlier deaths than other natural causes.

You're welcome.

The mean in this case is much more important as the means get skewed by the few that stay in homes a long long time. You are pretty cocky for someone who is so very wrong.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Had COVID not swept through nursing homes, the 2020 death count is guaran freaking teed to be lower. Fact.

If you can't breathe, you're more likely to die. Fact.

A nursing home is not a hospice. Two different foci. Fact.

You have no facts to the contrary pops.

I agree, but democrat governors made it happen

Obviously, there's a lot of ranting in this string, so I'll try to strike a reasonable tone. If I were you, and I weren't getting ready for something like an Olympic trials, I'd chill for a while.

You could be fine even if you continue on your merry way. But, given how little we know about the long-term course of the coronavirus illness, I would think caution is warranted. It could be that there are no long-term issues when you've got a mild case and continue training. But, what if we're wrong, and a little time taking it easier would have prevented something that raises its head a year from now, which didn't originally manifest as an outward symptom? What do you have to lose by taking it easy for a bit?

Anyway, here's a good read that I came across recently:

https://www.nazelite.com/a-covid-experience/

The mean is important here because ...

But I'm wrong to say it's not the median to be considered???

If the mean is important then the median is not.

So I'm correct.

Even if you meant to say median, I'm not wrong because for every number that leads to a mean of 14, you would come to its own median.

012345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728

Where (0+28)/2=14

(1+27)/2=14

The natural expectation would show a median of 14 on this line

To show a median of 5 would indicate that 5 months was the middle of the line of numbers ....however, for everyone who stayed only 5 months, you'd have to have suitable amounts of people above that range in values that lead up to a mean of 14.

In order to drive the mean that much higher than the median, all months 0-5 would have to be less in frequency because the incidences of extremely high months of stays would also be outliers.

So, the median is still not as important because it only means that the death rate was natural without Covid for a certain number of people....but anyone who, at this point, was expected to live more than 8.5 months, which is a solid amount, as the increased mean shows, had their life shortened below expectations if they died of Covid.

My assessment stands.

You're welcome too.

Give it up Z. It has been thoroughly explained to you. Now it's your choice to accept or deny the science.

And what if we discover that the more you elevate your heart rate and and get blood moving and raise body temperature while you have the virus, the quicker you recover and the less chance for any long term problems? It helps your sleep and increases water consumption. That is normally how it works with viruses.

No. You'll say anything to pretend this pandemic is practically harmless to most.

I don't believe your explanation nor science.

You just want freedom and will say whatever is clever to get it

Makes Paper wrote:

Anyway, here's a good read that I came across recently:

https://www.nazelite.com/a-covid-experience/

tl;dr: I'm a runner and I had mild cold symptoms for a week.

All you SOBs are whipping up rhetoric gleaned of nothing tangible just to justify your rights to have willy-nilly freedom during a pandemic , even if it means inadvertently infecting someone else to do what you want to do at whatever cost to society.

Were you all raised in barns, gnawing at wolf bones for fun?

I used to think Letsrun was educated, but it's just a bunch of wayward hicks here.

Seriously.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

All you SOBs are whipping up rhetoric gleaned of nothing tangible just to justify your rights to have willy-nilly freedom during a pandemic , even if it means inadvertently infecting someone else to do what you want to do at whatever cost to society.

Were you all raised in barns, gnawing at wolf bones for fun?

I used to think Letsrun was educated, but it's just a bunch of wayward hicks here.

Seriously.

You seem like an exceptionally angry person.

I've thought about what I would do if this happened and am happy to share my thinking. Will note that I live in a fairly urban area in an apartment building, so there is higher risk of transmission from me leaving my apartment than someone walking outside their house in a less crowded area.

What I would suggest is:

1. Get tested again to confirm the results of the first test. What's the harm in doing this if you are skeptical of the results? (though I'd be less skeptical than many on this thread since we know half of people with COVID don't have symptoms, so doesn't seem that weird to me)

2. Minimize the amount of time you are leaving your house. Like really work hard to make that number as low as possible - have groceries delivered, have food delivered, etc. Take the quarantine seriously and get tested again before you change this.

3. Run in as isolated of a place as you reasonably can. Personally I would drive to a mostly secluded trail to run every day if this happened to me. Also run with a mask or buff on or handy - if you aren't wearing it the full time then pull it up anytime you are close to anyone. If you are passing someone, do whatever you can to create distance between you and them.

4. If you are training hard, back off a bit to make sure your body has plenty of energy to fight COVID. For me this would mean reducing from 2 workouts a week to 0 or 1 while still running most of the mileage I would otherwise. Will caveat that this is a personal opinion and not grounded in science.

That's my take on it. I believe strongly in social distancing and not spreading to others but am also in a fairly serious phase of training, so the description in note 3 is how I personally would balance that.

First of all, if you tested positive, you MUST quarantine yourself as per CDC guidelines (retest negative and/or run out the quarantine). That means NO running in public. End of discussion.

If you have a treadmill, however, and feel perfect, I think that easy running would be just fine. I think it would be a good idea to avoid super long or hard runs, as now is not the time for you to lower your immune system.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

this pandemic is practically harmless to most.

Correct.

So?!

Covid Hysteria wrote:

Stoppit Smith wrote:

All you SOBs are whipping up rhetoric gleaned of nothing tangible just to justify your rights to have willy-nilly freedom during a pandemic , even if it means inadvertently infecting someone else to do what you want to do at whatever cost to society.

Were you all raised in barns, gnawing at wolf bones for fun?

I used to think Letsrun was educated, but it's just a bunch of wayward hicks here.

Seriously.

You seem like an exceptionally angry person.

You petty lowlife jerk.

Altering my post to manipulate it as if I said it.

How much did you pay people to help you cheat in college since you specialize in quoting people out of context.

You don't post intelligently enough to suggest you could have graduated on your own.

You really don't expect us to believe you did. Do you?

Stoppit Smith wrote:

You petty lowlife jerk.

Altering my post to manipulate it as if I said it.

How much did you pay people to help you cheat in college since you specialize in quoting people out of context.

You don't post intelligently enough to suggest you could have graduated on your own.

You really don't expect us to believe you did. Do you?

LOL

Increase Mather has entered the chat

Ha ha ha. The CDC doesn't have any control over you. Do you follow their guidelines for sodium intake? How about caloric intake? Interesting that all of the people who violated their guidelines forever are now unhealthy and they want healthy people to follow the guidelines in order to limit the spread of a virus that only harms the unhealthy people who did not follow CDC guidelines.

If he doesn’t run near anyone then he is not putting anyone at risk.