Coronavirus

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Seasonal Flu, is different, it doesn't behave in the same way at all, it is far less equipment intensive for one thing.

If you ended the shut downs with this because it is a new disease and people have no resistance it might rip through many emerging nations.

Considering the pneumonia and decreased ability to actually perform respiratory functions is present in both sets of patients, you can definitely be sure that what you just said is wrong.

Additionally, research points to nearly identical prevention approaches for treating flu pandemics:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443432/

And, according to actual epidemiologists at the top of their field (excluding Fauci), you're wrong. Opening back up and protecting the vulnerable is the best approach to saving the most lives. One of the worst approaches is shutting down and trying to "flatten the curve."

Originally posted by dadudemon
Considering the pneumonia and decreased ability to actually perform respiratory functions is present in both sets of patients, you can definitely be sure that what you just said is wrong.

Additionally, research points to nearly identical prevention approaches for treating flu pandemics:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443432/

And, according to actual epidemiologists at the top of their field (excluding Fauci), you're wrong. Opening back up and protecting the vulnerable is the best approach to saving the most lives. One of the worst approaches is shutting down and trying to "flatten the curve."

A widely overlooked study conducted five years ago by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the United States might need as many as seven billion respirators in the long run to combat a worst-case spread of a severe respiratory outbreak such as COVID-19.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/us-america-has-fraction-medical-supplies-it-needs-to-combat-coronavirus/

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Not really, the difference between the outbreak then you cited and now is this.

A widely overlooked study conducted five years ago by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the United States might need as many as seven billion respirators in the long run to combat a worst-case spread of a severe respiratory outbreak such as COVID-19.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/us-america-has-fraction-medical-supplies-it-needs-to-combat-coronavirus/

lol, you almost had me.

Originally posted by dadudemon
lol, you almost had me.

Pooty is Old. Covoid will Kill Him.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Looking at the World from a Country where healthcare is already stretched by everything from yellow fever to Ebola (5 years ago), we should all play our part in reducing deaths.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Seasonal Flu, is different, it doesn't behave in the same way at all, it is far less equipment intensive for one thing.

If you ended the shut downs with this because it is a new disease and people have no resistance it might rip through many emerging nations.

🤪

Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Pooty is Old. Covoid will Kill Him. [/B]

Yeah, it seems likely. 👆

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Seasonal Flu, is different, it doesn't behave in the same way at all, it is far less equipment intensive for one thing.

If you ended the shut downs with this because it is a new disease and people have no resistance it might rip through many emerging nations.

You'd have to be pretty old to not survive though.

In some countries people are also talking of herd immunity, but there is no single point of view as yet.

My dad has respiratory issues, he got quite sick a couple of months ago and the doc prescribed some steroids without him actually seeing my father. (reasoning that because that was the problem last time it must be the same problem now.) It would be nice to find out if he actually contracted Covid and shrugged it off because then he could go out, also, he would have almost certainly passed it on to me and as I'm a type-1 diabetic it would be good to know if I've had it or not, there are probably millions in similar situations, governments need to roll out testing to allow the people who have contracted the virus and subsequently combated it to get back to their lives wherever possible.

Lol. In other news The Onion and Babylon Bee have announced they are shutting down. Both companies were quoted as saying "we can't compete with real life".

America kew this was going to happen by experimenting with food in China. I bet even they didn't know Chinese people would be dumb enough to go into caves and eat bats.....

Originally posted by samhain
My dad has respiratory issues, he got quite sick a couple of months ago and the doc prescribed some steroids without him actually seeing my father. (reasoning that because that was the problem last time it must be the same problem now.) It would be nice to find out if he actually contracted Covid and shrugged it off because then he could go out, also, he would have almost certainly passed it on to me and as I'm a type-1 diabetic it would be good to know if I've had it or not, there are probably millions in similar situations, governments need to roll out testing to allow the people who have contracted the virus and subsequently combated it to get back to their lives wherever possible.

I got sick in February. The symptoms were so mild, it was like a half-cold. With zinc therapy, it was over in four days. I worked from home that week, so I could rest and get better. That Friday, they put everyone on a mandatory work from home, and I have been working from home ever since. It makes me wonder if I had it too, and did not know it.

I had a chest cold the other day but it was just alcohol withdrawal and poisoning.

Petition for the head of the WHO to resign has reached nearly 1 million signatures.

They definitely need to let Taiwan into the WHO or else they deserve their funding to be gutted after this.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I had a chest cold the other day but it was just alcohol withdrawal and poisoning.

😂

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
😂

self-inflicted. no sympathy coins awarded

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
self-inflicted. no sympathy coins awarded

So then any new yorkers who caught it cuz they decided to go watch a ship arrive...sympathy or no?

them in particular? no. but the others whom they likely spread it to? yes