Let's Try Something Completely Different on the COVID conversation

Boris getting better is a big negative, he’s Mr. Europe Is The Enemy lol.

I know people who work in 2 hospitals in 2 midwestern states. Neither has had a case yet. Nurses and doctors have had hours cut because patients are cancelling normal appointments. I assume that is the case at the majority of hospitals in the US.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic was caused by a new strain of H1N1 that originated in Mexico in the spring of 2009 before spreading to the rest of the world. In one year, the virus infected as many as 1.4 billion people across the globe and killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people, according to the CDC.

Yet there was no shutdown or lockdown.

So why now?

undercover brotha wrote:

The 2009 swine flu pandemic was caused by a new strain of H1N1 that originated in Mexico in the spring of 2009 before spreading to the rest of the world. In one year, the virus infected as many as 1.4 billion people across the globe and killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people, according to the CDC.

Yet there was no shutdown or lockdown.

So why now?

Taking the upper bound of 575400, let's do the math.

575400/1,400,000,000 is .a 04% fatality rate.. using the lower bound of 151k would peg the death rate at .01%

Lower bound death rate for covid is 1.5%and upper bound is 3-4%. Do the math you imbecile... covid is 38-400x as deadly as swine flu depending on which numbers you look at it.

If billions of worldwide had covid had youd be looking at tens of millions of deaths... not 100k

mathyousimpleton wrote:

undercover brotha wrote:

The 2009 swine flu pandemic was caused by a new strain of H1N1 that originated in Mexico in the spring of 2009 before spreading to the rest of the world. In one year, the virus infected as many as 1.4 billion people across the globe and killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people, according to the CDC.

Yet there was no shutdown or lockdown.

So why now?

Taking the upper bound of 575400, let's do the math.

575400/1,400,000,000 is .a 04% fatality rate.. using the lower bound of 151k would peg the death rate at .01%

Lower bound death rate for covid is 1.5%and upper bound is 3-4%. Do the math you imbecile... covid is 38-400x as deadly as swine flu depending on which numbers you look at it.

If billions of worldwide had covid had youd be looking at tens of millions of deaths... not 100k

So you know the total number of Covid infections? Please share it so we can check the mortality rate? Or is it a secret like the total number of deaths in Italy from all causes every day?

self isolate now wrote:

facts and reason wrote:

If you compare it to the bubonic plague, AIDS, or swine flu, then the coronavirus is very small in comparison.

This doesn't make sense - we should compare to all of them at 4 months after the first infection. We don't know how many people covid will end up killing over the next year.

That would be great comparison. Too bad that data isn't available. This is the only virus that warranted daily worldwide attention to every new report of deaths, infections, this prince, that celebrity, .....

Iceland wrote:

Data coming out of Iceland is convincing me it's overblown. The only place which appears to be do population wide testing, including no presenting cases.

The data is showing 50% have no symptoms. Majority of the other 50% have mild symptoms. Aligns with diamond princess studies which had 73% being asymptomatic.

I live in Madrid and have had coronavirus. Was bad for me for a day and very lethargic for a week. Very mild for my wife.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-testing-us-iceland-cdc-trump-decode-covid-19-tests/amp/https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110https://www.covid.is/data

What do you do for work? How did you get a work permit? How can others do the same, when this is over, of course?

listen to this guy PLEASE wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/this-really-hurts-man-shares-covid-19-experience-in-video

Guy was a 2:42 marathoner before getting hit with this deadly virus.

Like 25 years before?