That’s a slow night around here lately :)
You should see the End of Days Coronavirus threads :)
People actually CHEERING it on!!
I did you not.
I wonder if they were this anxious for End Times when they were young and full of life.
No. They’re just selfish :)
Well, I’M sure as hell not cheering it on. Too many of my immediate family have high risk factors. Mom is a few months over 89 - reasonably healthy for her age, but, feeble. My daughter has asthma. A bad cold piled on and put her in the hospital for 3 days, a few years back. One brother has only 1/3 of his lungs left (flu lead to necrotic pneumonia) and the scar tissue itself is vulnerable. I am for some reason prone to getting deep chest colds that take months to go away.
As for COVID-19, what do we know? It is very contagious— not “crazy contagious” like measles, but, up there with the cold viruses to which it is similar. The fatality rate per confirmed cases appears to be in the neighborhood of 1-2%. One Chinese study came back at over 4%, but, that was in Hubei Province where some (not all) the hospitals are questionable, and the health care system was totally overwhelmed. Hospitals here in the US are quite busy this time of year. It would not take much more to run us out of hospital beds and ICU’s, much less advanced ventilators.
Then there is the economic impact. Ouch. My family is already feeling that one.
End of days? Heck no.
Rough ride ahead? How many cases in the US do you predict by this time, next year, short of Chinese style restrictions to contain COVID-19? You can even guesstimate twice to allow for varying weather conditions.