I believe this shows how complacent we have become as a society. It exposes how poorly we handle day to day hygiene. In restaurants bathrooms, why do employees only have to wash their hands? Why does this need to be stated in the first place? We have also become extremely complacent in our day to day lives; Empty cupboard? Lets just go eat out. We will hit the grocery store next week. Really we can go on and on with this.
thing is I think the % can be even lower with good quick treatment. And then, the % can be higher if the opposite is true, w an overwhelmed system like Italy.
Health is wealth my dude. The older you get the more you realize it's true. I can help my friends and family if they need money, I can't do **** for them if they get sick.
Just more a matter of course than any real concern I did get all my hoarding done before it got here, but honestly didn't get increasingly concerned until, as I learned about: -permanent lung scarring -testicle effects -ppl getting well then it making a comeback later -multiple strains & wildly different mortality rates among different countries/ethnicities -then when it finally got here and the rodeo is still happening?! -then when it's in my county, and people still going out and about here, including my parents to a funeral Alarm bells are kind of going ringy dingy dingy!
Burn . I've never been very political. But believed in Keynesian ideas and investment in infrastructure. But for me infrastructure meant roads and schools. But now it is clearly healthcare. I mean, I've always known healthcare was important but now I am fully on board with it falling under the same importance as a standing and ready armed forces.
I think actual mortality is around 1% BUT if someone survived covid, 99% chances they'll die from medical student syndrome,regular flu or car accident or by eating toilet paper once we ran out of money or food https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Dr. Fauci said today it looks like the actual rate is closer to 0.7% as more and more numbers are coming in. The exceptions are where the health providers have been over-run. I think in China the rate in Wuhan was like 4 or 5% and every other case outside of Wuhan in China was like 0.1 or 0.2% and in Italy with their older population and healthcare being overwhelmed so the numbers are much higher there. Even if in the aftermath the death rates are much, much lower than now, the problem is the seriousness. Too large of a percentage of people need advanced medical care. So as long as you stay within medical capacity, the prognosis for that area is pretty good. As soon as you lose control over capacity, the death rate shoots up. That's why there are such huge measures taking place now.
I guess it was when I saw a post talking about the probable infection rates and exponential growth projections that I got VERY concerned (not scared). Combined with the idea my 92 year old mother lives with me and seeing what happened in Italy...yeah that keeps me up too.
Not only that but the reports of potential long term damage to the lungs and who knows what else is worrisome.
I had a funny moment regarding this. One of my wife's uncles is a blustery sort of dude, and started ranting on how the CDC recommends 20 seconds for washing your hands, how "that's ridiculous, no one washes their hands for that long, you know how long 20 seconds is? That's a long time!" And I respond "well, for me, 15 seconds is my norm; if all you're doing is running them under water for 3-5 seconds they're probably not getting clean, particularly if you skip soap". Everyone else, including his wife, kinda silently turns around and nods and he gets sorta quiet and gets a sheepish look on his face... It was dumb that we even had the family gathering at which this occurred FWIW, but we did it anyway because we had someone who was having panic attacks about the whole situation and needed to feel some "normalcy" to calm them down. But yeah, certainly makes me think about all the people I've seen at work who skip washing their hands entirely, or like get them wet for half a second with no soap and don't scrub at all. Super-dumb.
"Wipe with the left, eat with the right". They don't teach the basics in college, even when they mess with muh restrooms!