Posted on 04/23/2020 7:21:18 AM PDT by grundle
COVID-19 only somewhat more deadly than the seasonal flu.
I think all of these studies (LA, Santa Clara) are great news showing the actual mortality rate is so low. I am not worried about getting it- I am healthy and have no co-morbidities- but I still think it’s kind of creepy. I have 2 friends who had it. They were both pretty sick but on par with having the flu. The scary part is neither has regained his sense of smell. I can’t imagine losing taste and/or smell! Someone reported that eating pizza was like biting into cardboard. Terrible!
All the info about Covid19: being asymptomatic, very contagious, stays in surfaces, you get it when peoole sneeze or cough on you are ALL characteristics of most illnesses, especially the COMMON COLD. The main difference is the violence of Covid.2
The health care people used the ignorance if the citizenry to spread fear.
Bro? :)
An economy shattered over this.
But the good thing is we found out who (here and everywhere else) is a real, tough, independent minded conservative and who should be wearing a dress. :)
Sassshhhh. This cannot get out.
COVID-19 only somewhat more deadly than the seasonal flu.
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But approx. twice as contagious.
10,000,000 people get it you have .01 x 10,000,000 dead. That’s one million.
Los Angeles probably had a very high rate of infection in December 2019 as main Chinese visited relatives in Los Angeles’ very large Chinese community at that time. (We forget that all the major Chinese airlines have direct flights from China to Los Angeles.)
...and who should be wearing a dress. LOLOL!
bro put on a dress and assume the identity you’ve always wanted
sick of not calling a spade a spade
you and other faggots DESTROYED this country. Why you and other are even on this site i don’t know but you’re all disgraces.
STILL spouting bullsh.t
how OLD would these people be or HOW SICK???
and was it wroth losing freedom, the economy and God knows what else long term.
Faggots and fruits.
This is FR not FF
Well..duh. The greatest, most successful Republic known to mankind has been tossed onto the ash heap of history because of a socialist fear campaign. We, the cringing remnants of that once mighty country, have no one to blame but our cowardly selves.
So often, at this site and others, brave conservatives vowed to initiate CWII when the overreach of the communist, DC swamp breached the walls of the Constitution and enslaved the citizens. Well, the word went out to shackle ourselves to our bedposts, and we meekly obliged.
Meh
The fatality rate must be based on confirmed cases, anything else is BS. For the U.S its now 5.4%
It simply means that 5.4% of those with confirmed infections will die.
Its a highly infectious disease that came out of a Chinese military weapons lab. The issue should be getting medicines, tests, and other medical supplies out to the public ASOP, rather than denial.
10 million times 0.01 is 100,000. You’re off by an order of magnitude, like the models that got us here.
IMHO, I think that we will find out that officials overplayed their hands...and at what cist?
Sport, you may want to check your math. My feeble 6th grade multiplication gives me a result of 100,000. Yes?
No, I don’t think that that is correct. Or maybe I am misunderstanding you.
I think that a huge number of people had it, had little or now symptoms, >were not tested for it< and recovered and important! — were not counted in the statistics.
Here the way to look at it.
If 5 people out of 100 died then that is a 5% mortality rate. Where did the 100 of infected people number come from? From people who just so happens, happen chance?, were tested for it. Probably because the had symptoms and suspected that they might have it. Or other reasons.
Now, if that 100 number is actually 1000 or 900 people were exposed but weren’t tested then the mortality rate drops by 10.
The mortality rate becomes 0.5%. A significantly less number.
Maybe a huge number have had it, that would only mean its even more infectious that we currently think.
The fatality rate is based on confirmed case, not hypothetical guesses as to how many people might have COVID 19.
I typed it wrong.
0.1 x 10,000,000 = 1,000,000 dead.
Don’t get why so many here hate facts.
Yes, one million dead. I’ll accept it as true for the sake of argument.
Guess what? You are not going to stop that from happening. You cannot physically stop it from spreading. It’s going to run its course. All we are doing is slowing it down, at the price of destroying our country. We will wind up with a dead economy and your one million dead anyway.
Let’s get it over with.
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