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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
From wikipedia:
Previously, a Tyson Foods beef-packing plant employed more than 2,400 workers.[19] Hostess Brands has a bakery in Emporia. Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation, founded in Emporia in 1953, by E.L. "Bud" Hopkins, and recognized in 2003 as the city's Large Employer of the Year,[20] makes products for the automotive aftermarket. The Braum dairy store chain, based in Oklahoma City, originated in Emporia in 1952 under the name Peter Pan.[21] Simmons Pet Food operates a multi-acre plant in Emporia that manufactures wet dog food.[22]

Pet food, ehh!

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I used to go to Emporia at least once a month and it had a couple of big slaughter houses. The city always had a stench to it but on particular days it got really bad. I asked one of the locales what was the smell and was told today they are burning blood. I hated going to that town....
 
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AKAK said:
Yeah I was asking about this the other day. Obviously the models account for this... But I was trying to understand it. Maybe 21 days.
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A buddy of mine likely just recovered from it (untested, but the symptoms were drastic and docs feel it was unlikely to be anything else). It took him 23 days from when it hit him.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
So every one of those guys in the market had been admitted to the hospital, tested positive and walked out on two feet?
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There’s a 30-year-old high school baseball coach in New Jersey who went to the hospital on a Friday night and released that same night. His wife found him dead in bed two days later. That’s not a recovery.

I’m not sure why so many people seem to have a vested interest in downplaying what we are facing.
 
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OH10 said:
There’s a 30-year-old high school baseball coach in New Jersey who went to the hospital on a Friday night and released that same night. His wife found him dead in bed two days later. That’s not a recovery.

I’m not sure why so many people seem to have a vested interest in downplaying what we are facing.
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Was he admitted specifically for COVID and was his death directly caused by COVID? Getting a virus, getting hospitalized for it, being released because the virus was reduced/eliminated, and then dying 4 hours later from that very same virus is not how viruses usually work.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Was he admitted specifically for COVID and was his death directly caused by COVID? Getting a virus, getting hospitalized for it, being released because the virus was reduced/eliminated, and then dying 4 hours later from that very same virus is not how viruses usually work.
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It's not how "normal" viruses work. This one is throwing everybody off and has the experts befuddled because, as the name implies, it's behaving in "novel" ways.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Was he admitted specifically for COVID and was his death directly caused by COVID? Getting a virus, getting hospitalized for it, being released because the virus was reduced/eliminated, and then dying 4 hours later from that very same virus is not how viruses usually work.
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It wasn’t 4 hours later. It was a couple days later. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ool-baseball-coach-30-dies-of-coronavirus?amp

I read about this man in several articles today and it scared the hell out of me. It’s possible he had some sort of genetic code that enhanced the symptoms of the disease. But no one knows. This means anyone of us could die if we get it. We just don’t know nearly enough about what we are facing.
 
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OH10 said:
It wasn’t 4 hours later. It was a couple days later. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ool-baseball-coach-30-dies-of-coronavirus?amp

I read about this man in several articles today and it scared the hell out of me. It’s possible he had some sort of genetic code that enhanced the symptoms of the disease. But no one knows. This means anyone of us could die if we get it. We just don’t know nearly enough about what we are facing.
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Like @lvbuckeye said, I've also read that there more multiple strains - eg that the strain in Italy isn't exactly like the one from China and so on.

This thing seems exceptionally opportunistic. Presumably since it jumped species, it's also likely that it can mutate easily as it tries to go from one "genetic" host to another.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Between 35,000-40,000 people in the US have died of heart disease so far in 2020, and we haven't shut the world down for that.
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Is heart disease immediately preventable - ie how does shutting the world down prevent 40k people from dying of heart disease? Does heart disease pose an immediate threat to our healthcare system?

Asking for friend. :p
 
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