Posted on 03/18/2020 1:24:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A top official on the White House coronavirus task force issued an ominous warning on Wednesday, declaring that more millennials in Italy and France had gotten sick than anticipated becasue they failed to heed warnings about large gatherings after initials warnings thatn focused on the elderly.
“There are concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill, and very seriously ill, in the ICU,” Dr. Deborah Birx said at the White House daily briefing on the pandemic.
Part of the cause may be that health officials worldwide may have minimized the risk to young people compared to the elderly.
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I have millennial kids...all Trump supporters...and their spouses...careful w/ generalizing.
And how many of those, with no underlying health issues and under 70 years old, are in ICU or have died from COVID-19?
I am not mocking you, I am genuinely curious.
In 9 months there will be many births and we shall call those childrens Coronniels.
Concurr. All the stats we’ve been presented up to this time contradict this younger threat. I suspect they want to stop the unaware infected spreaders.
I recall only one death here for a person under 50....and he had underlying issues.
Great point.
“And how many of those, with no underlying health issues and under 70 years old, are in ICU or have died from COVID-19?
I am not mocking you, I am genuinely curious.”
No worries, no offense taken. None I know will die. Although asthma is a factor in two cases. But they have, in turn, infected many, many more. And we know at least 1% of that number WILL die. Perhaps more.
I don’t think we know that at all. It isn’t possible to know that without knowing the number of people actually infected, recovered, and dead. The whole problem here is that the only number we have even some confidence in, is how many have died who were positive for COVID-19. That’s the numerator in the CFR equation, but the denominator - that is, the number of people who have been infected with COVID-19, many of whom didn’t even know they had it, or never sought medical attention because it was so unexceptional in its effects/symptoms (much less that were even tested for it and found to be positive), that the denominator being used to arrive at a CFR of 1%, or 2%, or 3.4% (I’ve seen numbers all over the place), could be off by a factor of 10, or 100, or more.
That’s the point here: we don’t really KNOW very much, yet look at the panic, chaos, and destruction being caused by wild speculation.
What we do know, according to a piece put out by (of all places, CNN), is that just about EVERY death in the US so far has been someone over 70, and/or someone with a significant underlying health issue. So it seems to me that, rather than locking down the entire country, rather than forcing EVERYONE to be isolated, the smarter (and more economically and constitutionally appropriate) response would be to ask those at risk to self-quarantine. Not mandate, not force, but ask/recommend.
Don’t misunderstand me - my mother is 85 years old, and has had breathing issues for close to 40 years (she has had multiple throat surgeries, and restricted breathing for almost as long as I can remember), so I am avoiding any contact with her that might put her at risk. But, that is no reason that I or anyone else who ISNT at risk, should have their lives and livelihoods destroyed. And it is most certainly not a reason to submit to unconstitutional revocation of our fundamental rights. That is what we’re seeing, and it is a very dangerous, slippery slope that the power-mad politicians and bureaucrats should never, ever, be allowed to start down, for any reason.
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