Posted on 03/12/2020 10:29:28 PM PDT by amorphous
Yes to an extent but rapid over exertion may be causing rapid hypoxia which leads to the “suddenly dropping dead” syndrome you may heave read about.
Moving and changing positions, forcing one-self to cough and deep breath and resting while sick, that is often the best way to go.
Good sanitation is key. Especially washing hands and avoiding the need to touch your face. If it’s like other viruses, you can reinfect yourself.
Rush is showing the frailties of his own humanity...He has lung cancer and may be afraid this disease will take him out. He may be trying to reassure himself. Pray for Rush,
..... beginning this Monday, would you be prepared?”.......
Yes. Two - three months.
.....”When will America say ENOUGH OF THIS BULL SHIT?”.....
Probably not until it stops spreading.
.....”When will America say ENOUGH OF THIS BULL SHIT?”.....
Probably not until it stops spreading.
.....”The West and East Coast already look pretty hot on J.Hopkins map”.....
That’s where all the tourists go. Take a look at Florida’s Gulf side clusters, that’s where the Seniors Dominate in the state....I think each state has their own areas of vulnerability.
I just can’t answer why Washington State got hit so hard. Practically the entire state is a cluster of positives for the virus.
I’m self locking down for the most part. Planning to spring clean, haul out, and prepare walls for painting. That’s enough to keep me occupied for a couple months or longer.
Have a comfortable second floor deck to enjoy the outdoors as the weather changes. And will be painting Wrought Iron table set.
So I’m good.
I’m self locking down for the most part. Planning to spring clean, haul out, and prepare walls for painting. That’s enough to keep me occupied for a couple months or longer.
Have a comfortable second floor deck to enjoy the outdoors as the weather changes. And will be painting Wrought Iron table set.
So I’m good.
There was an article years ago I read in my pulmonary specialists office where the Israelis did a study on dry heat to treat cold viruses. It shortened the cold by a LOT.
They had people get under a cover with a electric heater and turned it on high. They breathed that heat in and it broke up the congestion faster than any over the counter drug on the market at that time
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This works because many chemical reactions run faster at higher temperatures and your body repairing itself or fighting infection is a chemical process. That may be the reason many people spike a fever when infected. The body is attempting to go into overdrive to repair itself.
Surprising isn’t it that this panic was not sounded in 2009 when H7N7 virus killed over 12,00 US citizens.
As more test are done you will see more confirmed cases abut death rate dropping as it already has started to do that’s because it is more mild than reported for most people and so far only serious cases get counted for the most part. There will be more deaths, it might even surpass the 12,461 deaths in US in 2009 from H7N9 aka swine flu.
But the fatality rate for COVID 19 is nowhere near as high as some alarmist make it out to be. That is why no one, repeat ZERO under the age of 10 has died anywhere in the world.
The country that has done the most testing that can be relied upon is S Korea , they have tested well over 250,000 and have 7,869 cases and 66 deaths for a fatality rate of .008 or less than 1%. That is more than the flu but nothing like what some are reporting here and in the news.
As a matter of fact if you add up the top 15 countries with reported cases excluding China, Italy and Iran ) you get over 20,446 cases and 247 deaths for a fatality rate of .012-about 1%. It’s probably lower and more in line with S Korea as many cases are even more mild.
” If you do what Japan is doing, which is all it can. You end up with a population that can’t inoculate itself. So, while its slope is low, it will keep going until it reaches a similar percent of the population. Germany and Italy will get a large percentage very fast. And while that may overwhelm the health system, it will also inoculate the population. Japan is saving the health system, not the population. There will be some beneficial affects of the Japanese way. Obviously the slower the rate of cases, means you will likely have the ventilators to treat more truly sick people. But it also means the economic price will be catastrophic. Japan will need to clamp down longer than Germany will. So, Japan’s economy will be stopped longer, causing a larger economic depression.”
Could you elaborate further on the situation in Japan ? I live there . Not sure I fully get the gist of what you are saying .
Maybe some of those people who made it out of China before we shut down travel, had mild or no symptoms and spread it around unknowingly.
There was community spread before they even knew there was a case, is what it looks like.
Seattle is one of the quarantine camps, but I don’t recall anyone being taken there.
WA state probably has the clusters for the same reason as Italy — a bad combination of enhanced Asian travel and business contacts, and a social climate that is very active.
People might speculate it has something to do with the Canadian border but on our side of that border (I’m in BC) the perception is more in the other direction, like close the border to keep it under control here.
It would be easy to blur distinctions between large local ethnic populations and business travel, I think the latter is the more dangerous of the two situations. Just because local residents are of Chinese origin does not make them that much more likely to contract the virus if they don’t travel to China (and most have no desire to go back).
Thinking it might be a while before this dies out, give it to early or mid May perhaps.
I've been trying to state something like this but you did it very succinctly. It bears repeating so forgive for me recopying your post.
What we should be doing is:
Will a few more people die? Maybe. But people die in a whole lot of unexpected ways. You may die from the virus in a lock down anyway save for the few months you were holed up in your house.
If we don't keep a majority of people working, people will start losing their jobs and it will take 10 years to recover. Not to mention the wrecked marriages and foreclosed homes because of money problems.
The government can't protect you from this. There is no treatment, no vaccine. Take reasonable precautions but hide in your house with your toilet paper? No thank you.
You get arrested and 5 yr. prison sentence in Russia if you fail to self-isolate after being tested or have the virus.
Stop your reckless ranting .
You are no expert in public health or even in the medical field .
Thanks for posting; let us know how it goes where you are.
Excellent article—they are going to do it anyway.
That is why sooner is better.
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