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The influenza pandemic in 1918 killed ten times as many people in its second wave– after lockdown restrictions were lifted– as it did in the first wave. COVID-19 isn’t political, it’s a mass murderer that enlists you to help it kill your family and friends. Take it seriously, and take basic damn safety precautions.
Alright.
You wrote so much. Most of it irrelevant, and your conclusions are incorrect. You’re even starting with an incorrect premise: the media is causing a literal panic. What’s most odd is that you’re citing statistics for health conditions while ignoring the recommendations of actual healthcare experts when it comes to covid-19.
It’s hard to have a productive conversation with someone who seems determined to dismiss reality just to be contrarian.
You do realize COVID-19 is only fatal for a small percentage of people, right? 100,000 deaths may seem tragic when Americans are involved, but these losses are minuscule relative to the country’s population.
About 81% of people who are infected with the coronavirus have mild cases of COVID-19, according to a study published Feb. 18 by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. About 13.8% report severe illness, meaning they have shortness of breath, or require supplemental oxygen, and about 4.7% are critical, meaning they face respiratory failure, multi-organ failure or septic shock. The data thus far suggests that only around 2.3% of people infected with COVID-19 die from the virus. People who are older or have underlying health conditions seem to be most at risk of having severe disease or complications. People should take steps to prepare and protect themselves and others from the new coronavirus, yes. But there is no need to panic.
After all, in many infectious diseases, the immune system’s reaction to a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen can cause greater harm to the infected individual than the pathogen itself. Ever heard of sepsis? Triggered by an infection, the immune system overreacts, releasing chemicals called cytokines that make blood vessels become leaky. That can ultimately reduce oxygen delivery to vital organs, which may cause organ failure. Sepsis kills more than 10 million people a year.
The Covid-19 epidemic is something like sepsis: the reaction by the media and government is likely to produce more harm to societies around the globe than the virus, possibly for many years to come.
We need to prepare, not overreact.
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Ebola is terrifying but mostly contained. SARS 1 fizzled out with stringent public health measures. MERS is limited because it jumps more from camels to humans than human-human. We have reasonably effective vaccines for the flu, chicken pox, and measles. The flu is also strongly seasonal because warm weather cripples it, which hasn’t proven true for covid-19.
In other words, we have effective countermeasures for and/or control over all of those other disease. We don’t have any of that for Covid-19 yet. That’s why it’s killed between 2 and 5 times as many people in the US so far this year, with no sign of relenting.
This isn’t fear mongering, you’re simply ignoring the forest for the trees.
Yes, fearmongering. Are you even cognizing any of this at all?
The virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is not the most deadly. Ebola kills upwards of 50% of people it infects. The coronaviruses that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) result in death in about 10% of infections and between 30% to 40% of cases, respectively.
It’s not the most contagious virus, either.
This virus, while deadly, is thought to be about as contagious as the seasonal flu, with one person infecting another two or three. Contrast that with measles, where one person can infect 18, or chicken pox, where one person can infect 12. Of course, these two highly contagious diseases are controlled by vaccination.
And anyway, 100,000 deaths may seem tragic at first blush, but relative to the country’s population? Nah, it’s exiguous.
Please tell me, am I missing something here? I don’t know what all the fuss is about.
100,000 Americans dead inside 5 months with no end in sight.
“Fear mongering,” he says.
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I think it’s important for us to look at some historical perspectives. Last time I checked, the fatality rate of this particular strain is about two percent. That is significantly lower than the MERS and the SARS virus, which were about 30 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
The concern is over how quickly the virus is spreading, I know. But for the most part, prevention simply requires good health etiquette. Which you, as a responsible adult, should have regardless.
This fearmongering needs to stop.
In USA again?
@AJ Aficionado
I am very sorry about you, on about how USA really is. Corrupted government, corrupted economy and capitalism.
Bruh, it’s already killed over a hundred thousand people in the US since February; even if it keeps to that pace– spoiler alert: it won’t, deaths have been increasing exponentially and the second wave in the Autumn is going to be much worse– it’ll still kill nearly 300,000 by the end of the year. Panic is unnecessary if basic safety precautions are adhered to by most people, but COVID-19 is absolutely Some Real Shit that needs to be taken seriously.
Tell that to Italy. Even if you don’t believe the illness itself is any more lethal than the flu (most papers say it’s actually worse), you can still have the health system overwhelmed which WILL lead to excess deaths. You’d better be careful because it’s not just your life on the line, but the life of everyone around you and everyone around them.
Bruh that dude should be in jail.
NOPE, it’s a real stunt! Here’s the source
I really hope that was some kind of staged event, because if I was on public transportation and some idiot just up an’ dumped a bucket of anything out on the floor I would beat that asshole until he stopped moving.