Agreed.
Any westerners who got it died yet?
People get bored and need drama.
It’s BAD in China. Just like earthquakes are devastating in 3rd world countries.
This guy is right. Probably not NEARLY enough antibiotics so what would be a lousy week with pneumonia is DEATH.
I’ve had pneumonia twice. Could tell I may have died without antibiotics.
Thank God we live in the US
I’ve been getting grief for not taking this seriously. I’m hearing stuff like, “but this one feels different”.
My normal MO is to ignore these outbreaks until they are no longer in the news, when it’s obvious it came to nothing. Yeah, that includes Ebola.
People take movies too seriously. Nevertheless, if I see someone walking around that is seriously stricken with this particular virus, there is one thing I’ve learned from the movies: It takes a head shot. :)
“Any westerners who got it died yet?”
It was first discovered in China Dec 8. People did not start dying until first week of January. Most of the deaths have been after Jan 15.
The cases in the West have only been confirmed about a week ago or less.
Lets see what happens in another 2-3 weeks.
I got the flu last January (first time in forever), bam, it went to pneumonia so fast I was blindsided and didn’t get to the hospital fast enough. Nearly died. But first rate treatment and 4 days in isolation and I walked out fine. I was 100% within several weeks after.
It was a serious eye opener for sure. Point? In China as in most of the world, I would have been a death statistic. Not here.
Lyme Disease.
A friend works for the Army on the public health side of things. He said the same thing. Even New York City doesn’t have nearly the population density of many Chinese cities.
Couple that with meager socialist health care and general ignorance of many aspects of sanitary living you’ve got a greater chance of pandemic.
Dehydration and secondary illnesses probably kills more than the actual virus does
I’m not playing. SARS killed about 10% of its victims in China and Hong Kong. This bug appears to be killing at a rate of over 50% - again, over there - if you compare official number of deaths to the official number of case resolved one way or the other.
So to just snort at this bug and not expect it to kill of some of its victims — certainly not 50 to 60%, but some smaller, significant portion - is insane. Fumento the debunker is officially debunked!
So, as I’m over 50, I’m trying to get my pneumonia and shingles shots, because if I don’t and I catch this bug, and secondary pneumonia and shingles infections rage as a consequence, I could very well not be long for this world.
But I still plan to fight the hell out of it, so as to greatly reduce the “not long for this world” possibility.