Posted on 04/19/2020 12:57:18 PM PDT by DannyTN
A new NBC News/WSJ poll also shows how the past month has changed Americans’ attitudes about the coronavirus.
In March, 53 percent of voters said they’re worried that someone in their immediate family would catch the disease. Now it’s 73 percent.
Also in March, a combined 26 percent said the coronavirus has changed their day-to-day life in a “very” or “fairly” major way. Now it’s 77 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsaz.com ...
Poll: 81 percent say keep social distancing despite damage to economy
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/492886-poll-81-percent-say-keep-social-distancing-despite-damage-to-economy
He also lost his grandfather, Frederick in the Spanish Flue. Grandmother,
Elizabeth widowed with three young children. Sure wish someone would tell that story. E Trump and Son became a multi billion dollar business.
I have an issue with categorizing all untested deaths of those who came in with symptoms of corona as being presumed positive even if they directly died of pneumonia or heart failure.
If a patient with corona virus symptoms comes in and IS tested positive,AND has other co-morbidities then we know the virus will stress those systems affected by a patient’s pre-conditions. It is logical to assign a covids diagnosis to the death of such an one who dies of organ failures due to the viral aggravation of his underlying conditions, especially if the patient might have lived for years with his pre-conditions otherwise, having been untouched by the virus.
I think all deaths where the presenting symptoms were covid suspicious should be tested to make sure the patient was positive, even if he died of liver and kidney failure which showed up during the treatment of the covid respiratory symptoms.
I remember that panic. We closed down the country for 8 months straight. Oh wait a minute, never mind, that was just a nightmare I had the other night.
But it was the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. It eclipses the estimates for every flu season going back to the winter of 1976-1977. Estimates for many earlier seasons were not readily available.
But we know it caused 500,000 (U.S.) deaths in 1917-1918, which was also while WWI was raging across the pond.
Good song
Good song
Whatever the current danger, some people lose their fear of it before others.
What worries you, rules you.
-John Locke
Lockdown kill too. Which kills more eventually?
They wouldn’t be any worse. There is no evidence the lockdown has done anything it trash the economy and our civil rights. This is a contagious virus widespread in the population. Those that are going to get it are going to get it despite any draconian distancing measures
With social distancing being ineffective, do you have any data-supported recommendations for vulnerable people to help reduce their odds of infection? Thanks.
The CDC says 34,000 flu deaths last year. Not sure where you got your number from.
2017 was a bad year with 79,000 dead, but that was the worst flu year in 40 years.
Yes. to scare people into submission. it worked. To scare people that is not to stop the spread of the disease
Free republic represents a very, very small sample of America.
The flubros have won here. It is not possible to plod through the thousand stories a day here, with all of them ranting and raving like little girls.
They post a story with bad information in it, and then 100 posts about how its all fake.
It is simply no longer worth coming here for information. The information is bad, the comments are horrific in their misinformation and just plain stupidity.
During the first couple of weeks this was one of the best sources for information on the internet. Smart people discussing and finding great information. Then people starting sticking words in our mouths, suggesting dire predictions none of us made, and dancing around like kids at a high school football game.
Intelligent people will go seek their information elsewhere. And there is no engagement.
This place has become the sanctuary for old bullies. There is no such thing as an agreeable disagreement. Or the possibility of even considering something that Trump or Rush said might not be true.
Those are the most dangerous people.
How many people do you think would had died if we did nothing about it?
No one has suggested panicking. Where are you getting that from?
Right, back up an NBC poll with a Politico poll.
There are vast amounts of unreported cases where I live in Santa Clara County according to antibody testing that Stanford did.
There was another study in Massachusetts that showed around 30% had the antibody.
I think it’s really bad in New York because it’s dense and people rely on mass
transportation.
Not as bad in more spread out areas.
It seems to be spreading in nursing homes like wildfire in our area.
I do think it’s worse than the flu, but not as deadly as we initially thought.
Also, I’m very cautious and avoid shopping and seeing friends. We are enjoying the trails that are open, and hope they open more.
Really? Drama much?
What will be really interesting is how heart attacks, cancer and other deaths rates go down this year. As places like New York openly admits to changing the records
Yeah, yeah, if we’d listened to polls back in 1776, the Queen would still be our official Head of State.
Suddenly, for some here, NBC becomes a trustworthy spurce.
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