Posted on 03/13/2020 3:26:54 PM PDT by USA Conservative
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday, the most significant move yet by the U.S. government to head off the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump’s declaration came as many public and private institutions have taken action — including canceling major events, temporarily banning large gatherings, closing schools and telling people to work from home — in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled, soared, and then closed with a gain of 1,900 points after the emergency declaration. Wall Street had reeled Thursday afternoon after coronavirus fears drove the markets to their worst day since the Black Monday crash in 1987.
The United States as of Friday afternoon had 1864 confirmed or presumptive cases of the coronavirus, and the death toll climbed to 41.
Colorado announced its first coronavirus death on Friday, bringing the national death toll to 43. The current mortality rate in the US is 2.2%.
But everyone seems to forget that the fly took more lives, a lot more to be precise.
While health officials in the United States wait to see just how bad a public health challenge COVID-19 will pose, they still have to deal with an all-too-familiar challenge: flu.
It’s been a bad flu season. Not the worst ever, but bad.
“It started very early this year,” says Emily Martin, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collecting statistics about flu.
This year’s flu season started picking up steam around Thanksgiving.
The CDC doesn’t test everyone who has flu symptoms to be certain they really have flu, rather than some other viral infection. Still, the CDC estimates are reckoned to be pretty accurate, and they are updated regularly.
There have been 222,000 confirmed flu cases in the US this season. And there have been 22,000 flu deaths this flu season.
There were 144 children who died from the flu this season.
This chart comes from the CDC. It shows weekly flu numbers and seasonal flu numbers.
This morning Dr. Anthony Fauci was on Fox and said that 80% of the people who get Corona will suffer little to no symptoms and return to good health rather quickly. The remaining 20% are generally older people or people with underlying health problems.
The problem becomes when the -Rate- of people being affected with serious (like bilateral pneumonia) conditions Exceeds the capacity of US hospitals to deal with it.
If that happens, the deaths skyrocket. So the Rate needs to be slowed down.
It’s, essentially, a lab-made common cold (with an HIVspike protein added on) that no one has ever had before. Across 3 large waves, nearly 6 billion people will catch this. Most will be just fine, But, they can go around wrecking the weak and old without realizing it.
So, by Slowing the Rate of infections, the number of serious (potentially fatal) cases, at any particular moment, becomes lowered .. potentially by as much as 95%.
Calm down people we gonna be just fine.
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Consider the political persuasion of the entities that are closing/cancelling, adding to the hysteria created by the MSM. There is more to all of this than meets the eye.
222,000 is the hospitalization cases.
The total number of flu cases this year is estimated to be up to 50 million per the CDC.
Great tagline.
Two absolute must-read articles are up on ZeroHedge right now. Here is one.
Covid-19: European Leaders Finally Acknowledge Scale Of Crisis
Sat, 03/14/2020
The disease is spreading fast: more than 28,000 coronavirus cases (93% of all cases) in Europe were confirmed during just the first twelve days of March. The number of new cases has been doubling, on average, every 72 hours.
[DOUBLING EVERY 72 HOURS!!!!]
“The threat is very significant... There are many epidemiologists who talk about the potential of the virus in terms of attack rates globally that could be between 50% and 70% of the global population.
“It is important to recognize that the virus is here and that it has tremendous potential to be disruptive, to cause high rates of illness and even high rates of death....
“I don’t think we are dealing with the flu here... this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it.... You might have an attack rate that is three times higher than seasonal flu with a mortality rate that is ten times higher.
“The most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. We have not since 1918 — since the Spanish flu — seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way. We have seen very lethal viruses — Ebola’s mortality rate in some cases is greater than 80% — but they don’t have the infectiousness that this virus has. They don’t have the potential to explode and spread globally....
“I think that what we are seeing is a virus that is many, many times more lethal than the flu, and a population that is completely vulnerable to it, and we are seeing its ability to explode. It has increased in some countries over the last two weeks by one thousand-fold and many countries are seeing ten-fold or one hundred-fold increases in cases. There is nothing to stop that expansion from continuing unless those societies move aggressively, engage their publics, implement multiple public health interventions, including introducing social distancing....
“We need to modify our behavior. We need to start practicing that now. We have to modify our behavior in ways that reduces the risk of transmitting the virus.... One challenge that we face is that people who are young and are generally healthy won’t perceive personal risk and they will govern their behavior based on what they perceive their personal risk to be. I think we need to start thinking in terms of the social risk. If I have a cold and I go to work and shake hands with my older colleague who has a chronic medical condition, I could be responsible for that colleague’s death. We all need to think about our responsibility to each other as we govern our behavior. We can’t view the epidemic in terms of our personal risk, we need to act collectively in a cooperative manner....
“I don’t think it’s a crazy analogy to compare this to World War 2... I think this is an appropriate analogy and the mindset that people need to get into....
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-european-leaders-finally-acknowledge-scale-crisis
Please read 105, and go to the link and read it all.
You are still confusing the daily tide (flu) with a monster Tsunami (CV) still over the horizon from where you sit.
Here is another MUST read for today.
It’s reprinted at Zero Hedge (instead of Medium) so it’s much easier to access. All the graphs will enlarge for easy study if you click on them.
“Covid-19 Is An Exponential Threat” - Why Global Politicians & Business Leaders Must Act Now
When you’re done reading the article, this is what you’ll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to you.
It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
As a politician, community leader or business leader, you have the power and the responsibility to prevent this.
You might have fears today: What if I overreact? Will people laugh at me? Will they be angry at me? Will I look stupid? Won’t it be better to wait for others to take steps first? Will I hurt the economy too much?
But in 2–4 weeks, when the entire world is in lockdown, when the few precious days of social distancing you will have enabled will have saved lives, people won’t criticize you anymore: They will thank you for making the right decision.
Agree completely. As I noted yesterday, just for the Flubros: Italy had 250 Coronavirus deaths on Thursday and 20 ‘just-the-flu’ deaths on Thursday (using a high-biased scaling of the US flu death rate).
None of the Flubros responded.
“Aside from that, one mistake that many commentators make is to compare an entire flu season to the mere toe of the Corona virus curve.”
I’m sure Italy had their share of Flubros a few weeks ago saying something like: How many people died of the flu today, maybe 20? How many died of Coronavirus today? 3. What’s the big deal.
Thursday 250 Italians died of Coronavirus.
“Not sure what it has to do with anything, but I heard someone say it. lol”
I was posting why the sky is blue and interesting information on Singapore and their history...in response to the trolls on our Coronavirus daily thread. I figure if they want to flood our thread with useless info, I can respond in kind. For Flubro threads like this, I tend to respect their right to try to convince themselves it’s just a head cold.
The problem is that if flubros don’t get with the program, they become Typhoid Marys that f*** the rest of us.
You forgot one:
-Exhaustion of medicines used to treat the effects of the virus.
But you know Nostradamus was notorious for successfully treating plague victims using nothing more than clean water and healthy food. So maybe that’s a positive note.
“they become Typhoid Marys that f*** the rest of us.”
So you think you will catch COVID-19 from an internet message board?
Delusion is the true mark of hysteria.
No, I’m making the possibly unwarranted assumption that those flubros go outside in real life and proceed to act as a transmission belt to others. His is bad for people who live in the US with them.
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