It's a good thing the WHO has declared a global emergency. With all the travel restrictions and quarantines in place, this outbreak should claim far fewer lives than the common flu. The downside is that vaccines won't be available until the summer at the earliest. Also troubling is that according to a paper published in Lancet and contrary to official reports, the origin of the virus remains a mystery because the earliest cases had no contact with the local wet market. Moreover, the novel virus isn't just lethal to those who are old, have pre-existing medical conditions, or have compromised immune systems – as officials claim, but rather, it kills young healthy adults as well, although admittedly the study's sample size is small. Things could be as bad the media portrays, or worse, or better. We'll never know, but I sure don't trust the media.
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It's a good thing the WHO has declared a global emergency. With all the travel restrictions and quarantines in place, this outbreak should claim far fewer lives than the common flu. The downside is that vaccines won't be available until the summer at the earliest. Also troubling is that according to a paper published in Lancet and contrary to official reports, the origin of the virus remains a mystery because the earliest cases had no contact with the local wet market. Moreover, the novel virus isn't just lethal to those who are old, have pre-existing medical conditions, or have compromised immune systems – as officials claim, but rather, it kills young healthy adults as well, although admittedly the study's sample size is small. Things could be as bad the media portrays, or worse, or better. We'll never know, but I sure don't trust the media.
Yes forgot one step (man enough to admit when I make a mistake), still, a 2% is not as bad as the media want it to be, and the 24589 deaths are pure speculation so the 15% ratio is still not proven (that would make it worse and in line with media but who knows).
Again I am not saying is not bad (and respect for people who are touched by this disease)
but still, media hype at it's best.
But we are changing the subject, better save this discussion in another thread.
I had to check the website a few days to see when my apple store had them in stock. And order them before 12 for store pick up. They often were sold out by the afternoon.
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You can't go by 2%, because you don't know the end result of the 31,524. After a week you're normally done with the flu. Plus you have flu shots and treatment that relieve it. People are dying from the coronavirus weeks after getting it.
I don't have any and don't plan to, as I suggested in the part of my comment you cut out. No need to be aloof.
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Simple flu isn't deadlier if its death rate is lower. Corona virus isn't spreading like the flu only because of the quarantining efforts. If everyone treated it like the flu, it'd be a disaster.Really? I mean apparently more people died of a simple flue in the same timeframe in the US alone.
Burden of Influenza
Learn about how CDC estimates the burden of seasonal influenza in the U.S.www.cdc.gov
2 weeks of corona virus worldwide 560 (circa) death
2 weeks of flue in the US alone 1386 (circa)...
2017-2018 death in US alone was about 61,000 or an average of 166 death a day... and again, we are speaking US alone!
2018-2019 death in US alone was about 34,157 or an average of 93 death a day.
Flu Kills 646,000 People Worldwide Each Year: Study. Seasonal flu kills 291,000 to 646,000 people worldwide each year, according to a new estimate that's higher than the previous one of 250,000 to 500,000 deaths a year.
That means an average of 1092 death a day wordlwide.
Influenza (seasonal)
WHO fact sheet on influenza: includes key facts, definition, symptoms, transmission, seasonal epidemics, effects, prevention, WHO response.www.who.int
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I am not saying it is not bad, but the "how lethal it is" is a media build-up, as right now, a simple flue is deadlier than the corona virus, it's just the media going hipe on things.
That said, respect for Cina and all people that are touched by this terrible thing!
Also, given the reputation, expect the Chinese media to underreport everything bad. I fear for the people there.
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I think we need to pay attention to statistics coming out of neighboring countries to get a better idea of whether we're gaining control or sliding toward a global pandemic. I read an interesting observation from someone who was crunching the Chinese government's statistics on infection and death rates and the death rate was impressively consistent from day to day. It was a nice and tidy 2.1% before going up to 3.1% for a few days and dropping back down to 2.1%.
Those numbers are obviously being fudged, but as to whether they're being fudged out of ill intent or just the inability to deal with the situation, we can't know for sure.
Classic..... your reply made me chuckle. 😂
Aloof: Meaning not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.
My simple comment was about the importance of AirPod delays over life which you then quoted. And what was the first work you typed..... I'll remind you?
So, who's being aloof? 🤔
Let it go. He actually agrees with your original comment. It was a misunderstanding in tone.
Hep C can survive for around 3 weeks outside the body. That’s the scary virus.
A few days I posted a link to some reportedly "leaked" numbers from China that showed a death rate much much higher than the official numbers reported out of China. That was a hoax. Sorry for posting that.
The numbers out of China are suspect, but as far as the death count goes, they're not believed to be that massively skewed. They still show a much higher fatality rate than the rest of the world. A SARS researcher and professor at the University of Hong Kong, John Nicholls, had a possible explanation for why China's numbers are so unusual. He thinks the reported deaths are mostly honest, but the infection count is being seriously underreported, which results in mostly just the people who are at risk of complications being counted.
Everywhere else some of the people being counted as infected are barely symptomatic and not really at any realistic risk of dying.
The numbers out of China are suspect, but as far as the death count goes, they're not believed to be that massively skewed. They still show a much higher fatality rate than the rest of the world. A SARS researcher and professor at the University of Hong Kong, John Nicholls, had a possible explanation for why China's numbers are so unusual. He thinks the reported deaths are mostly honest, but the infection count is being seriously underreported, which results in mostly just the people who are at risk of complications being counted.
Everywhere else some of the people being counted as infected are barely symptomatic and not really at any realistic risk of dying.