if it mutates at all it will be to become a less harsh virus, the virus wants you to live and spread it not kill you before you get the chance.
if it mutates at all it will be to become a less harsh virus, the virus wants you to live and spread it not kill you before you get the chance.
Facts Matter wrote:
Fact:
Since the outbreak began at the beginning of December, 2019, as of January 29, 2020 - 170 people have died from the virus.
Fact:
According to the CDC, during the 21 week long 2018/2019 influenza season, there were 35.5 MILLION people sickened by the flu and 34,200 deaths. That's 232 influenza deaths EVERY * SINGLE * DAY!
The flu is exponentially more contagious than the coronavirus yet no one panics. There is already a vaccine and people refuse to get it. So far for the 2020 flu season, there have been 8,200 deaths and 140,000 hospitalizations. Contrast that with the 6000 cases of the coronavirus and 170 deaths and simply put...
... you all make no sense at all!
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
Oh, I see, you're one of them idiots.
Smorbun wrote:
Facts Matter wrote:
Fact:
Since the outbreak began at the beginning of December, 2019, as of January 29, 2020 - 170 people have died from the virus.
Fact:
According to the CDC, during the 21 week long 2018/2019 influenza season, there were 35.5 MILLION people sickened by the flu and 34,200 deaths. That's 232 influenza deaths EVERY * SINGLE * DAY!
The flu is exponentially more contagious than the coronavirus yet no one panics. There is already a vaccine and people refuse to get it. So far for the 2020 flu season, there have been 8,200 deaths and 140,000 hospitalizations. Contrast that with the 6000 cases of the coronavirus and 170 deaths and simply put...
... you all make no sense at all!
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.htmlOh, I see, you're one of them idiots.
Ok, Chicken Little
This thread has aged perfectly, it's more relevant now than when I originally posted it.
Fact: As of this post, there have been 6,706 global deaths from the coronavirus since it started in December in China.
Fact: There have been 22,000 flu deaths is the United States alone.
That is a population of 332 million people with 22,000 flu deaths as opposed to a population of 7.2 billion people with 6,706 deaths.
Everyone is going batshit craycray over 6706 deaths out of 7.2 billion and ignoring 22,000 deaths out of 332 million.
Raise your hand if you are the idiot that this makes sense to.
I'll wait.
I'm not sure your post makes sense...cv has only just started....? You can only answer that in quite a few months. It seems reasonable to suggest that cv is more dangerous than flu, but only by a few times.
I would assume most people on this board will get it at some point, it's just a case of when. Most of the runners will be fine, as they're likely pretty healthy.
Well...... wrote:
I'm not sure your post makes sense...cv has only just started....? You can only answer that in quite a few months. It seems reasonable to suggest that cv is more dangerous than flu, but only by a few times.
I would assume most people on this board will get it at some point, it's just a case of when. Most of the runners will be fine, as they're likely pretty healthy.
Raise your hand if you are the idiot that this makes sense to.
I see we have a volunteer.
The COVID-19 outbreak began December 1, the flu numbers are from October 1. That means that there are 2 extra months of flu data. The coronavirus would have to kill an additional 490,281 people globally in the next 2 months to catch up to the flu.
#mathmatters
Over 12 million people in the state of IL -- and not a single dead person. The people who tested positive for it here are mostly over 50 -- and none have died.
Yet the Governor shut everything down. No restaurants, no bars. Mass hysteria over a fake virus.
I am more scared of our government than I am of this fake virus. Our rights are slowly being eroded, and it's terrifying.
6,500 deaths so far. The media has done a fantastic job of fear mongering. How many in the US have died as of today? 70
These fools who are calling for 1M deaths in the USA are panic driven, fear mongering idiots.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-16-20-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-updates-cases-fears-deaths-us-latest-2020-03-16/
Think about it. Anyone here know anyone of these millions of people in the US that have died of the "flu"?? Nope. Fake news. Coronavirus is real, which is why all the world elite (smart people, rich people) are taking it seriously and not profiting from it
Comparing the flu to COVID is like comparing football players to volleyball players. It's useless and kind of stupid. Please stop doing it. You literally have no idea what you're talking about. You can't compare two things that have extremely different patterns/behaviors. You're a 2D square trying to comprehend a 3D cube. What's worse is that you've been doing it for so long....despite the increasing sense of awareness by all around you, including most major hospitals, infectious disease experts and most importantly other nations. Meanwhile you lean on Dr Drew...
Gregory House wrote:
The danger is what the coronavirus might become if it mutates. Thats why its spread needs to be stopped.
Regards,
WHO
Well, so far there are no indications that the virus will mutate.Stay calm ( as far as you are not among the risk group)
Trumpanzees will do anything to stop coverage of the virus, but there’s nothing they can do.
Hilariousness wrote:
Comparing the flu to COVID is like comparing football players to volleyball players. It's useless and kind of stupid. Please stop doing it. You literally have no idea what you're talking about. You can't compare two things that have extremely different patterns/behaviors. You're a 2D square trying to comprehend a 3D cube. What's worse is that you've been doing it for so long....despite the increasing sense of awareness by all around you, including most major hospitals, infectious disease experts and most importantly other nations. Meanwhile you lean on Dr Drew...
6706 deaths globally out of 7.5 billion - Panic in the streets
22,000 deaths nationally out of 332 million - ? ??
Nothing you say will change that these facts.
Nothing you say can explain the stupidity of this
Comparing the flu to COVID is like comparing football players to volleyball players. It's useless and kind of stupid.
Pulling analogies out of your a$$ is useless and stupid. Where do you tards come up with this crap.
Turn off the TV bozo ?, go outside, get some fresh air.
Facts Matter wrote:
sanchobaile wrote:
The flu has been extensively studied and researched. We have a well developed vaccine strategy against it. Yes, it kills, but we have found no way around that. Most of the deaths are the elderly, children, and people with underlying health conditions.
The coronavirus is a new threat. Less studied and understood. Easily spread. No vaccine yet. Nobody is saying it's going to be a mass killer. They're saying that it could be. We just don't know yet, and the top medical researchers around the world, who maybe know a bit more about this than the OP, say we should pay attention to it. That's not sensationalizing. You are the one projecting any sensationalizing. Read the news, take it for what it's worth. A lot of coverage does not amount to sensationalizing.
If you have a specific headline or article you think is sensationalizing, please share it. Otherwise, STFU.
You are uninformed. Coronavisuses ARE NOT NEW. The last outbreak was SARS, which is a coronavirus. Everyone freaked back in 2003 over that one. After all was said and done 800 people died, no where near the 48,000 that died from influenza during the same time period.
MERS came next in 2012, also a coronavirus. MERS has killed 858 since 2012, which is NO WHERE NEAR the hundreds of thousands that have died from influenza in the same time period.
Educate yourself or live your life as a sheep.
+1. It's amazing to witness this worldwide overreaction. Harvard university the most prestigious university in the world with the most prestigious medical school did not believe it could deal with it and shut down, maybe there wasn't enough saline. The church of rationality will look back on this abdication of its responsibility in shame. There's a leadership vacuum medically and politically.
jesseriley wrote:
Trumpanzees will do anything to stop coverage of the virus, but there’s nothing they can do.
Ok, Chicken Little.
Harvard hasn’t shut down...their affiliated hospitals are going full strength. They’ve shut down classes like every other college. Medical students are not helpful in this scenario and create a higher chance of spreading disease.
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
6,500 deaths so far. The media has done a fantastic job of fear mongering. How many in the US have died as of today? 70
These fools who are calling for 1M deaths in the USA are panic driven, fear mongering idiots.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-16-20-intl-hnk/index.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-updates-cases-fears-deaths-us-latest-2020-03-16/
You are a fool. We are making prudent decisions finally, and mostly by state governors, both Democrat and Republican. Your stupid President has reacted by installing a travel ban and closing Mar-a-lago. You going to criticize him for fear mongering? Probably not, because you are a stooge. He actually does not deserve criticism there, but what he has done is too little too late. He should have taken this seriously from the beginning. You are an idiot. I mean Grade A Idiot.
you have an inability to think for yourself
OKBoomer wrote:
Harvard hasn’t shut down...their affiliated hospitals are going full strength. They’ve shut down classes like every other college. Medical students are not helpful in this scenario and create a higher chance of spreading disease.
The school is shut down. Didn't shut down War of Independence, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, 9-11, Invasion of Iraq +last 20 years in Afghanistan, Swine Flu, SARS, MERS, Flu season every year since it was founded, AIDS, 1960's, 1970's, Great Depression, Great Recession, anything. But for this it shut down. The school has the answer to all the world's problems and it can't deal with corona virus. If Harvard can't then who can?
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
6,500 deaths so far. The media has done a fantastic job of fear mongering. How many in the US have died as of today? 70
These fools who are calling for 1M deaths in the USA are panic driven, fear mongering idiots.
They want a recession. This is the latest ugly face of Trump derangement. A recession is the only way their mind-addled candidate can win.
Frenzied hate toward everyone who "downplays" the virus. Soon everyone who doesn't want a recession will be a "Trump supporter."
the northern Europeans are still revealing the truth: there are far more cases out there than being confirmed, and that means the death rate is far less than feared.
Germany 14 deaths out of 7174 cases, 0.5%.
Sweden: 6 out of 1103, 0.5%.
Norway: 3 out of 1300, 0.3%.
Switzerland: 14 out of 2200, 0.6%.
Belgium: 5 out of 1058, 0.5%
Based ONLY on their confirmed testing numbers, COVID-19 is officially at worst 5 times deadlier than flu on a per-case basis. And these are upper bounds; it is still probably much less than that. It already had a longer generation time, taking longer to spread from one person to another.
This disease is not going to kill more people than flu this year, not next year, not ever.