Covid-19: Super Flu or a Mild Cold?

American Thinker ^ | 03/20/2020 | By Anthony J. Ciani

[SeekAndFind]

With symptoms ranging from a gasping death to nothing at all, one has to wonder whether COVID-19 is a super flu or a mild cold. Have we ruined our economy over nothing or saved millions of people from death? If COVID-19 is a mild cold, how did we mistake it for a super flu?

There are over 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. The most common are rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, and respiratory syncytial viruses. The average person gets one to three colds per year, and due to the large variety of viruses responsible, there is no vaccine. Influenza is another common respiratory virus. Cold or flu, respiratory viruses present similar symptoms and follow the same life cycle.

Launched into the environment from their current host, they might survive long enough to find another. Typically by inhalation, they might make their way to the mucosa. They might make it past the wall of mucus to the underlying cells, where they might manage to infect one. Irritated by the intruder, the cells send an alarm and macrophages soon begin the equivalent of carpet bombing. The release of cytotoxic chemicals causes tissue damage and even more irritation. The mucosa releases more mucus, filling the sinuses and dripping into the lungs. Cilia move mucus out of the lungs up to the throat, where most of it makes its way to the stomach, but coughing is also an option, launching virus into the environment.

The more specialized 'T' and 'B' lymphocytes make their way to the infection where they test the infectious agent to determine if they are a good match. Once a 'B' cell matches close enough, the precision strikes start. The adaptive immune system further alters its genetics to make an even better match.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A little of both apparently, which is what’s so weird about it

[LouieFisk]

“Just the common cold,bro!”

[Mercat]

Any freepers out there who have this bug and/or know someone who has it? I don’t.

[romanesq]

Dumb. At this point, it’s clear this ChiCom virus unchecked will force a shutdown of hospitals and collapse the healthcare system.

See the breaking point in Italy, Spain and pending with the UK which is already turning people away from testing because the socialist healthcare system doesn’t want to “waste” the money.

We are going to hear more about people dying in their homes bringing the globe back to a time when that was the de facto way most died.

The horror stories are not ending; they are beginning.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Any freepers out there who have this bug and/or know someone who has it? I don’t.

Not personally, but my daughter’s officemate’s mother has this bug. But I don’t know him. The fact that he works with my daughter has me worried. Luckily they’re all told to work from home.

[null and void]

100,000 cases 14 days ago, just broke 250,000 this morning.

And the day is young...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Any freepers out there who have this bug and/or know someone who has it? I don’t.

I used to go to a wonderful church when I lived and work in the Philippines. This church is now meeting online during Sundays as two of their members, a husband and wife caught the bug ( both doing well ).

[datura]

The next two weeks will be the greatest growth in the US. Hopefully after that the exponential growth curve will flatten.

In the rest of the world, it’s just starting. (Except for Italy, Spain, and Iran.)

[romanesq]

It’s a damn circular problem and you’re correct. Hope we got it here in time.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The horror stories are not ending; they are beginning.

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You may well be right. However, I am still wondering.

[Fiddlstix]

To: All

Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found.

President Xi Jinping’s The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, Made in China!

8 posted on 03/19/2020 12:37:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)

[elenvee]

Maybe this is why : https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-scientists-coronavirus-male-fertility-1488235
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074945/coronavirus-hubei-government-deletes-report-claiming-covid-19
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1182389.shtml
https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_148559

I’m not an epidemiologist, but I have been trying to figure out why the US, Europe, S.Korea, Etc. are tanking their economies over this. An exhaustive search of the net revealed this info.

[elenvee]

Yes. A lawyer in his 40s. Not doing well.

[Wuli]

ping

[b4its2late]

Not personally either here. But know of an individuals boss who traveled to Europe and Dubai for 2 weeks. Lives in Philly. Tested positive. Has had worst symptoms for a week, now feeling a whole lot better. Was/is home the entire time.

[romanesq]

I hear you. None of us ever been in this Hollyweird movie.

I pray for all of you FRiends and our Republic.

[romanesq]

Just got off the phone with a colleague here. A neighbor hospitalized yesterday and confirmed: ChiCom Virus.

[R0CK3T]

Its a sickness designed to take down an Army on the Battlefield, so that those forces that are not sick can overwhelm them quickly.

Its not a cold or even really a flu, its a weapon.

[CodeToad]

Typical flu level symptoms and treatment.

Nothing to be taken lightly, but nothing to go and shut down the country for either.