It is of interest because it explains both the threat of COVID-19 to the individual AND to the system.
Those that ignore the threat of COVID-19 put others at risk and are no better than the dork that ignores evacuation orders in a sunami event and risks the lives of people that attempt rescue.
Oh no! Another cliff!
It is not the virus but fear and panic, even among those who should not better, that is creating the economic downturn and with it any attendant strains on the healthcare system.
NUMBERS tell the whole story, and even in “ground zero” the regular flu has killed more people than Cov-19.
Does that mean Cov-19 is not a serious problem? No, it is a serious problem.
But perpetuating Armageddon what ifs that do not have a basis in the numbers only helps create the very self-defeating psyche the “concerned doctors” say they dont’t want to do.
What should YOU do??
1. Don’t be building fear and panic within and from yourself.
2. Don’t engage in self-defeating panic buying.
3. Clean every surface you touch in your house.
4. When out protect your hands and do not touch your mouth, nose or eyes - a whole lot more important than any mask.
5. If YOU are ill, wear a mask to protect others (from a cough or sneeze you make), do number 4 so that you don’t contaminate things you touch, and DO NOT GO TO WORK.
6. Wash your hands, frequently.
Actually, if all those things were done ANYWAY, there would be a lot less seasonal flu every year, and spread of Cov-19 would be more easily contained.
I challenge the statement in the article that once you develop antibodies to a virus you can’t get it again and worse they use chicken pox as one of the examples. The varicella zoster virus is the cause of chicken pox and I suffer chronic nerve damage to this day on my face as proof that the pox never leaves your body and your antibodies are incapable of preventing its return. They just call it shingles on subsequent appearances and in my case it was many times worse than the chicken pox. I believe it is also infectious in the shingle stage through shedding from the open pox. When shingles presented on me, I had the familiar chicken pox blisters on my right check under my eye with excruciating pain like a blowtorch that lasted for days and the doctor was concerned about it getting into my right eye. After having chicken pox, I have heard that there are no guarantees one will not get shingles even after receiving the two shot vaccine protocol. The bottom line is that viruses are nasty entities, hovering somewhere between being alive and dormant seeds possessing the potential for life.
Doctors Without Borders scooted out of China in 2014. They are sending supplies though.
Absolutely best article I have read to date.
Everyone should pass it on.
This article revealed itself as fear mongering, albeit with some commonsense recommendations, when it promoted Wuhan as a novel virus for which the body has no antibodies.
So fear it! Except... All viruses mutate into new “novel” viruses, but the body’s immune system(s) develop defenses (usually rapidly).
Example- the H1N1 virus accumulated about 14 mutations/year, until, at about 10% mutations, it wrecked itself out of existence...
See- Carter, R.W., and Sanford, J.C., A new look at an old virus: mutation accumulation in the human H1N1 influenza virus since 1918, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 9:42, 2012.
This is not the type of mortality rate we bring the global economy to a grinding halt about.
FYI...
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges ‘national shutdown’ as coronavirus spreads
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824791/posts
“This is a Pearl Harbor moment for our country.”
Uh...no it isn’t, Dr. Nitwit.
Helpful article, but not one mention of the elephant in the room.
Asians, especially Asian males, are genetically more susceptible to Coronaviruses than other races (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1)
When all is said and done, this will be slightly worse than the SARS scare of 2003. The majority of deaths will be elderly Asian males.
SARS was discovered in January 2003 and was over in six months (gee, I wonder when summer started in 2003?)
By June, July at the latest, I suspect we will see it rapidly fade away. Recurrence in the colder weather after summer is unlikely, because it doesn’t incubate over a long enough time period for a significant number of un-quarantined, active cases to be out in the wild.
Finding grammar mistakes makes me not want to take it serious. This guy’s an MD?
“It is a novel virus, which means that in the world has antibodies to it because no one has ever been infected by it before.”
Should be “no one in the world” maybe?
and then he links to The Atlantic which is a far left outfit.
fail
This is NOT a Pearl Harbor moment. When Pearl Harbor happened Americans pulled together and went to work and ended the depression. Here we are being told to stay away from each other and don’t go to work. We are not pulling together. We are being pulled apart.
That's why I stocked up over time months ago, I'm taking the "better safe than sorry" route for now. I maintain my right to reserve judgement until more facts come in.
Thanks for the updated status.