OT: Facebook Post from Cristina Higgins in Italy
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I get it now, you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. It all makes sense now. No need to waste my energy on someone so fragile they can't even acknowledge our country's own president.
Oh he is the President. And I am a Republican. I was also in the mortgage bond business for 30 years. Trump only cares about his wallet. I'm not fragile at all. And I laugh at the lemmings
I'm not saying Covid-19 is not a deadly virus. But you're really not seeing how this is mass panic and hysteria? H1N1 killed 17,000 Americans in 2009. Were you this scared then?
This is obviously a Democratic plot to overthrow King Trump! Or a ploy by the paper companies to corner the market on toilet paper and cause the price to skyrocket. Soon we will be paying $15/roll of single ply!!! Double ply will be going for >$40/per roll. And triple ply.........forget about it!
Simply put, we don't have enough hospital beds to accommodate a major pandemic. Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN was just talking about transforming Jacob Javits Center into a hospital ward. Scary Stuff.
Tom Hanks, living in Australia, just announced he has coronavirus.
And how many will this kill? Do you have a crystal ball? We are in the beginning stage of this. Your stupidity is mind boggling.
The NBA just suspended their season. One of the Utah players just tested positive. Hysteria?? Damn you are so stupid.
Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus so the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City players are quarantined in the arena.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nba-suspends-season-coronavirus-2020-1203531530/
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nba-suspends-season-coronavirus-2020-1203531530/
Sir, just stay in your house and have someone deliver you your food until the vaccines are available. I'm sure you already have plenty of toilet paper.
How do you tally the cured cases, when some may not even show symptoms?
the numbers are understated because there isn’t enough testing.
I get that, exactly...I'm just pointing out that we may never know the numbers infected to try and compare to flu
Do you think all flu cases are documented? Basically the same will happen here. Only those getting treated and tested are counted.
hopefully we should at least a decent idea, if we can ever get those tests out there.
I think we may be stating the same thing.
No, I don't think everyone is tested for flu...even the 45M pointed out above probably are not tested (positively) but perhaps just diagnosed.
Are you comparing COVID-19 to flu?...I'm not...just pointing out that the number of cases for both are unknown...just the deaths are tested and confirmed positively
That's incorrect. Whatever this is, its roughly twice as likely to spread as the flu, it appears to live outside its host much longer than the flu and its mortality rate is multiple times that of the flu. Either this thing hits hard and hopefully abates quickly, or you ain't seen nothing yet.
While I think some of the reactions are over the top, there are probably 100 times more infections in the US than have been reported. And its going to get worse. I suspect more than 90 % of America will eventually be exposed to the virus. Its basically impossible to contain with a long incubation period and many people being asymptomatic yet possibly still spreading it.
I think I am ok compared to most people. I have watched every Walking Dead episode at least three times. Know how to use every weapon out there. Working on a bayonet that shoots bullets and fire. If any of you have one and it is red, let me know.
Why is it severe in Iran? Perhaps the practice of licking religious shrines has something to do with it. Once this story went viral, Iran claimed people who did this could face 2 years in jail and 74 lashes. People are contagious before they exhibit symptoms, so the disease could have spread by seemingly healthy people more readily there.
looking at this current situation to gauge what the reaction will be if we actually had a more dangerous threat - the battle for resources could get crazy.
That’s what happens when there is no trust in a society - and there is no trust because the society is built on money and consumption.
This is probably a bit off topic.
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Yes, “just like the flu” is something a very low IQ individual would say.
I did like the OP/post. Humanizes it s bit. Who cares how verified it is? This is what is happening there and the tend points toward that here.
What hadn’t occurred to me (healthy guy, late 50’s) is that NOW people like me survive like 100% but some of them go to the ICU. That probably won’t be an option in a few months.
You may be on to something as all the paper towels in addition to the toilet paper were sold out before noon yesterday at the Wayne Costco. So obviously people are resorting to paper towels to compensate for the lack of TP.
Back when you could tell ethnic jokes without ppl getting offended, Italian jokes always revolved around them being dirty.
Figures you would cite an NBA player as if he was something of significance. They are all flesh and blood just like you and the rest on here.The reason this virus has garnered as much ink as it has is because of where it started... how out of touch their ( henchmen ) leaders were... then had 5 million of their Wuhan citizens still travel around the globe. The rest of modern civilization was naive , unaware and knew very little about this new COVID virus.Why was that ? A communist country which tightly controls all of what goes on and what free speech is allowed. Ask that dead doctor who first questioned this disease. I love how you say” I am a Republican” yada yada... this isn’t a political issue but the mass media in 2020 and both major parties certainly have acted as if it is. Yes , people will get sick and sadly some will pass. This too will end and another disease will pop up. It is called Life and we as a people , country and our World need to get it together.
I won't miss Olive Garden :Laughing
All this talk about only old people get it. An NBA healthy player 27 years old has the virus and symptoms and shuts down a $10 billion annual business and that isn't significant to post???
With your cavalier attitude, many of us would wind up dead.
it's important that every available precaution be taken to minimize the spread of this illness. these are reasons, why we should be cautious:
1. There is no immunity as no one has been exposed to the virus before
2. The numbers are understated, as there are not enough test kits available, and it takes days to get the results back; Cases could skyrocket overnight once people are adequately tested.
3. There is no vaccine, though Gilead Pharmaceuticals is working on one, which hopefully will be available within a year
4. The health system will not be able to accomodate all the cases if this winds up affecting the US significantly. There are simply not enough hospital beds. Doctors will have to decide who gets treated and who doesn't on the fly. Buildings like Jacob Javits and maybe even the RAC, might have to become hospital wards.
5. There are people who have it, that don't know it, which is why they easily spread it
6. Young people get it, but they seem to fare better against it. A 32 year old physician assistant is currently at Hackensack Medical Center being treated.
7. For many elderly who have pre-existing conditions, the virus will prove to be fatal
https://nypost.com/2020/03/09/new-j...nt-thinks-he-caught-it-at-times-square-hotel/
If anything - let’s take it as a challenge and as a society do what we need to do to defeat this thing.
let this thing die here
let this thing die here
I find it ironic as Hanks is a huge anti-Trump guy and he catches this in Australia.
Iran has very young population (due to mortality from past wars) and they got hit hard too. There are suspicions Iran and Italy have a deadlier variant of the Corona.
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