Posted on 03/07/2020 5:27:48 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
Your are 100% correct when you say “You don’t get to post articles here and write your own headlines.”
If you have ever posted (if you haven’t the click on “Post”) then you will know that posters are to provide a “Title of Thread”. No where is a poster asked to supply a headline.
That title is original to me and has nit been changed.
CDS similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
People die from complications of a cold so I will give you technical merit on that point.
Four cold viruses are corona viruses.
Alot of people have died from the flu and you didn’t muck up FR over that.
So how many are going to die? Surely you have an estimate.
The split you are seeing is not necessarily idealogical. Freepers are just as likely as anyone to be statistically illiterate and suffer the same cognitive biases as anyone else.
How many are infected? No one knows. How fast is it spreading? No one knows because no one knows how many are infected. What is the death rate? Define the question: Is it deaths of hospitalized patients, is deaths of people who infected (see first question).
How bad is it in comparison to other viruses? See first questions.
The Chicken Freepers would believe in Man Made Climate Change if the were leftists. Thank goodness they are not or we would have already banned oil and coal and this virus would be farcical compared to the world wide famine we would face.
Gee, ain’t it funny how the Mods changed your title to the actual one. It’s to prevent duplicate threads.
It is funny. I suppose all of the whiners got their way because it isn’t about duplicates. We have multitudes of those.
Posters are very clearly asked for the “Title of the Thread” and nowhere is a poster asked to supply the headline of the article.
Moderators do not always understand correct procedures for posting. If FR wants to assure fidelity to an article’s headline the poster could be simply asked to supply “Headline of Article”. But FR does not ask for that.
You lying sack of s#1t!
WebMD is a little behind the curveball. A few weeks ago there was a link on FR to an article on a Chinese study a couple(?) years back where the researchers discovered 500 different coronaviruses in bats from a cave in China. The researchers thought they had only scratched the surface. They also found antibodies to one of those coronaviruses in local villagers, but found no actively infected people at the time.
(500 sounds like a suspiciously “round” number, but maybe the researchers stopped there having proven their hunch.)
Now, I do have a question: Do coronavirus colds present significantly different symptoms than rhinovirus colds?
There is indeed a split much as you describe, but, there have been a few of us rather in the middle, acknowledging that there was considerable potential for a serious problem, given the ability of a decidedly infectious pathogen to spread rapidly in absence of strong containment measures, but also not panicking. I suppose I should not speak for others, but I was encouraged by President Trump’s early shutdown of travel from affected areas in China. Since then, and not all this is by any means on the President, but he is the place where the buck must stop, the response by our gov’t has not gone well.
The supply chain disruptions from China have been pretty well baked in since CNY. I still think that if not rectified soon, they may cause more harm (including to health of Americans) than the virus itself, IF we can slow the virus enough that our health care providers and facilities are not overwhelmed.
Yes, I think there may still be a chance to slow COVID-19 “enough” that anyone affected seriously can get good care. But that chance is decreasing each day. IMO, one cannot look at the RATE of increase of cases here in the US, Italy, or Korea, the poor response of HHS and the CDC, and our very “open” society, and conclude otherwise.
There are differences. Rhinovirous colds are a little more intense on the discomfort scale and the season is a little longer, spring through fall. So these are the colds that are the warmer weather variety that are responsible for 10-40% of colds.
Coronavirus colds are usually a little milder with a shorter season of winter early spring time frame. These are the colder weather variety that are about 20% of colds.
Get back to me in 3 weeks. I’ll have an estimate then.
We are just seeing the tip of the icebueg.
2 weeks earlier Italy had 20 known cases.
Now 200 people a day are going into the ICUs.
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