Even if you don’t die, if you get it there is a 20% chance you are going to be extremely sick and in the hospital for 2 to 3 weeks, likely on oxygen or a ventilator, and may very well have permanent damage to your lungs and other organs. Plus there is the risk of relapse later, which medical authorities don’t understand yet.
I hope this puts this in perspective, everyone is whistling past the graveyard on this.
As I type this message to you, I am in my fully self contained bunker. This was not an easy decision. I will check back with you all later to check on your status. Best of luck to you.....
That's assuming there's room in the hospital for you . . . A big part of what worries me is that it is very contagious. Even if most people have mild cases, the numbers I've been seeing are that 15-20% of people have severe cases. We don't have that kind of surge capacity in our hospitals, and many of our medical supplies and medicines are sourced from China.
I have a son who works in an understaffed ER, a niece who is expecting any day, and a 94 year old mother who survived Nazi occupation, communist takeover and a move across the ocean to start over with nothing. These are just my most vulnerable loved ones. I am taking this very seriously. I just pray I'm wrong about it.
They relapse later? I didn’t know that. I read they were getting re-infected and more ill the second time around.
What a Satanic virus!
Not that I automatically believe someone from an elite university, but Marc Lipsitch is a Harvard epidemiology professor.
What are your credentials?
His projection is far different than yours of ‘whistling past the graveyard’.
The article makes a very good point about other coronaviruses (common cold viruses) and the human body also not developing immunity to them once one has fought off the original infection. I know I’ve had “double whammy” colds in the past.
That got me thinking about the 500 coronaviruses one research effort found in bats in some cave in China — and then they found antibodies to at least one of those virus strains in villagers nearby - but no active disease. The researchers also believed they’d only scratched the surface in the number of bat coronaviruses yet to be found.
So, I wonder. What if this is not really a “novel” coronavirus? What if it is instead a quite old coronavirus that made the jump to humans in the past, adapted so as to not trigger immunity, and then for whatever reason died out in humans (isolated area, something else took out the local humans...), and, now, it is back.