Notice all this hysteria in the media comes after "Russia, Russia, Russia" fails.
Even if we do nothing at all, it will burn out. It always does.
Captain Trips it ain’t.
When this is all over with in months, or a year, or whenever, the CFR won’t be as high as feared.
The problem is that the virus is too infectious and nobody, other than those that contracted it, are immune to it.
So, we have a novel virus that’s spreading like fire in a dry forest, mostly taking down the most vulnerable and elderly. The idea is to slow infections down and allow the system to continue on.
The challenge is doing this without causing panic and allowing the economy to stay somewhat upright.
There are people literally thinking this is World War Z or the attack scene from the 1980’s nuclear war movie, The Day After.
Even Britt doesn’t get the fact that the denominator is unknown.
Also, the death rate is not the issue. It is the infection/sick rate that will shut down the system.
Why is everyone so focused on the death rate? That’s not what is causing them problem.
In addition to a higher mortality rate than the seasonal flu, the Wuhan coronavirus puts about 8 percent of patients in ICU which will be an enormous strain on our medical system.
The mortality rates will continue to stay low as long as they slow the spread and hospitals do not get overwhelmed.
BTW, if you were one of the lucky ones to catch covid19 and your respiratory health goes south, you will NOT be having a good time on a respirator, but you will be grateful that there is one available for you.
I agree with the moves taken recently to slow the spread. We do not want to become an italy or iran.
Impossible to predict just how this disease will progress until you have good statistics on the number infected. It seems to have been around since the beginning of last December, so the number actually infected must be much higher than cases and fatalities currently reported. Given that, its virulence isn’t anywhere near sufficient to justify the irrational response we’ve seen.
President Trump needs to recognize the hysteria in the media is to hurt the economy and prevent President Trump from being reelected.
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He needs much wisdom in this time as he battles both the media and the myth of this virus. Right now he's taking the safe route as far as the election goes because he is doing what the dems like. More government control. If he switches course then the attacks will amp up by 10 fold with any bad news. He is in a very difficult spot but if anyone is up to the task it is President Trump.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3824207/posts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html
The Worst-Case Estimate for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
New York Times ^ | March 13, 2020 | Sheri Fink
Posted on 03/13/2020 7:15:22 AM PDT by daniel1212
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month... Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.
And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.
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It makes total sense. Better/more testing has revealed cases that wouldn’t have been noticed otherwise. So “number of cases has expanded” — of course. “Mortality rate has declined” because, even though it’s “a thing”, it isn’t as dangerous as the media hoped it would be.
And, if necessary, they’ll be saying that flu deaths were Wuhan to help the narrative. How would we know any different?
Last Friday, I visited two friends from France living in the US. They were in abject panic about the coronavirus. They get their information from Europe. They're convinced that the Black Death is upon us and that President Trump is personally spraying everyone with the virus. They very politely suggested that I not come back to visit until this blows over. I think they shoved the furniture up against the doors after I left.
Every doctor has said this. We’ve been looking at the tip of the iceberg for a while. South Korea is the better model than Italy to look at and this is exactly what we’re seeing.
To keep things in perspective, 2 months into the
H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic, 1,000 Americans had already died.
People are recognizing this for what it is. And even some of the people at work and waking up to it that i would not have expected.
Trump knows that, but he has to over react to a certain extent now because of the coming election to enoculate himself against cries of he didn’t do anything and let this happen from the left. Better for the election to have done too much.
Now, WTF are the hysterians gonna do on this site?
This cant be happening! OMG! We need to run around going “WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!”
As expected. Because only the old and infirm are dying. The old and infirm will get this virus, and it is pretty much only a matter of time.
The rest of us will get it, get sick and recover. The hyperbole is mentally retarded.
But...it's NOT ABOUT the death rate.
“President Trump needs to recognize the hysteria in the media is to hurt the economy and prevent President Trump from being reelected.”
Totally agree. This is singularly to take him down. Thank GOD he’s a fighter. I’m sure he’s waiting for some of this hysteria to die down but he better come out sooner than later, swinging.