maybe there can be a coronavirus section on this page – i'm starting to get really annoyed that every other post is about it.
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5G is one of the reasons it's spreading, if not the main reason. You heard it here first.
Wuhan one of the first to roll out 5G. It was originally developed as a military weapon
Wuhan one of the first to roll out 5G. It was originally developed as a military weapon
wooooooow. Tin foil hat much?
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This is 100% true. I got the flu shot and got both flu a and b at the same time, which together would kill some people. That being said it lasted about 3 days and I was back to normal. The flu shot helped the severity of it.
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I dunno. I see those ads for those KFC donut chicken sandwiches and everyone in my house got simultaneously hungry.
Ah, the old „I knew someone who didn‘t smoke and still died from cancer“ argument.
I think it’s that combined with the “i smoke and i haven’t died from cancer” argument, which itself combines two logical fallacies, for a grand total of at least three.
fear mongering by the media; more people die of hunger an the flu than this.
I was waiting for the standard response from closed minds. You beat everyone to it, congrats.
This is a flawed comparison. For one, H1N1 had a mortality rate of about 0.03%, which is less than a typical flu (as you say the numbers you quote are worldwide). And second, we're just at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. Nobody knows how many people will be affected. One thing is for sure, it will get a lot worse before it gets better.
True, but downplaying the risks doesn't help either.
You don’t know if it’s going to get worse then better. You also don’t know if this virus will still be transmitted during warmer months. There are a lot of assumptions at this point from both sides. It’s new and we also live in a much more pessimistic society these days so I’m not surprised people are freaking out. We don’t know the outcome of this. Based on statistics alone, the flu is still far worse and as of now the flu has killed many many more people than COVID. Will that be the case in 5 months? Who knows, but as of now we have what we have. Social media, and our mainstream media have created this fear mongering. That’s clearly obvious. Most rational people will do their due diligence. Wash hands, stay home if sick, cough in their elbows but continue to move on with life. Just like every other flu season that takes the lives of 60k plus people each year. If you’re one of those people afraid to go out of your house. I feel sorry for you. That’s no way to live an already short life we have on this planet. When it’s your time it’s your time. Nothing can stop that.
The fact that you think that uncertainty is a reason NOT to worry, and that you think there are “sides,” is what is going to cause lots more people than necessary to die.
Yes, we do know that. We already know the approximate range of the spread rate, and there is no vaccine and no cure yet. Epidemiologists can pretty much predict what will happen at this point. The only way this could change is if a cure is discovered and mass-manufactured sooner than anyone expects.
Large companies around here and in other places around the world are starting to tell their employees to work from home where possible. This is very real.
First of all, the getting on with your life scenario happens with many other viruses.
Do you think this is the only virus around with no vaccine?
Secondly, a year and a half is overly pessimistic. There are already drugs (therapies) showing promise and promising vaccines in trial stages.
1) No, there are no vaccines in trial stages yet. The closest one is still “weeks” away from even BEGINNING testing, and that comes long before trials. Every reputable source says a year and a half at the earliest.
2) No, there is no other virus with this R0 and lethality level that is “around with no vaccine.”
3) No, there are no drugs (therapies) showing promise with respect to this virus yet
I really don't mind them introducing an iPhone 11S, 11S Pro and 11S Pro Max utilizing the same design as last year's. Give us some minor improvements, maybe sub-6GHz 5G, 90Hz ProMotion display (for the Pro models) and an all-OLED line-up. They can save the sub-6GHz + mmWave model for next year.
The death rate is already way higher than that, especially in the oldest groups.
CDC estimate of global H1N1 pandemic deaths: 284,000
Hence hysteria.
Comments like this are so puzzling. People need to remember that the Flu and this COVID-19 virus are *contagious*, and that people can be carriers for it and pass it onto other people without knowing they have. You can't compare this to cancer because it's not a contagious `droplet` disease. You can't get cancer from touching your mouth, but you can catch a virus.
The downplaying of this coronavirus by so many people is concerning, and those may even be people that contribute to it spreading because they are not taking it seriously enough. As these virus situations get worse (and they will!), there needs to be laws that hold such people accountable for their behaviour, if they fail to adhere to strict guidance for containing the spread around their communities.
"Why are you in jail?" ..."Oh, I didn't stay home when I had a runny nose and 10 people got sick from me and died." ... "Oh."
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I want to ask ... do you know what the "flu shot" is?
It's a lab-grown sample of the flu virus that causes your body to build up an immunity to the virus in the wild. So you're actually being injected with the flu virus, which is why some people do get sick, but it's likely far less severe than if they did not get the shot at all.
I don't get the flu shot either, but some people insist on it. My mom, for example, got it religiously.
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You can’t extrapolate the current mortality rate, period.
There are drugs and treatments showing signs in both therapy and vaccine.
First coronavirus vaccine trial in the US is recruiting volunteers
Forty-five people will be enrolled in the preliminary safety trial of the new vaccine.
This has started:
NIH clinical trial of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 begins
Study enrolling hospitalized adults with COVID-19 in Nebraska.
www.nih.gov
Of course, this is just the beginning stage, but many companies are working toward this quickly.
Takeda has a plasma therapy they are starting to test now.
I never said anything is set in stone, but it’s not going to take 18 months.
Even if it does, the mortality rates will drop precipitously if it starts infecting any large number. The most respected virologist has said that.
You, like the media, are overreacting and that’s causing far more harm than the virus.
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You can keep saying it, but it’s false. There are no vaccines even being tested yet. Why are you trying to spread false information?
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And? I posted a few as well. There is tons of evidence our companies are working on various ways to stop this and the number of cases isn’t high enough to extrapolate mortality.You can keep saying it, but it’s false. There are no vaccines even being tested yet. Why are you trying to spread false information?
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