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

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BuckeyeNation27 said:
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It didn’t work in Cook Co or other counties. They wouldn’t have shut the state down if our county was the first or only but we shut down for Cook.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
That's a false dichotomy. While I think that it's likely a very accurate depiction of events that (some) efforts reduced the spread, the same curves could have resulted with different efforts being taken. Again, I don't think that ANYONE is suggesting that nothing needed to be done, but many are critical of the WHAT was done.

Did you, by chance, open the WSJ link that I posted? Or even read the very small snip of text that I pasted? Social distancing has been shown, across multiple studies, to be effective. Shelter in place yields a very small incremental boost. The key driver in slowing the spread is reducing people in confined areas with little ventilation; a far cry from the shelter in place tactics that were used. Admittedly, the same false dichotomy argument can be made for my assertion. Either way, get grandma out of the nursing home.

That said, there's no denying that the efforts that were put in place did not work anywhere near as well for those who, from the beginning we knew, to be most at risk. 40% of deaths, give or take, have been in assisted care facilities (high risk population) and that doesn't even account for cases / deaths in penitentiaries (confined areas). So, here we are... efforts that kinda / sorta worked, but not really for those who were most likely to be impacted... yet we impacted everyone by shutting down the world economies and created non-trivial problems for those who would have never been impacted.
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"would have never been impacted"? How would you know that for sure? Most states were "flying blind" when this hit so it's difficult to be really critical of over or under reactions unless people were dropping like fly's. Even then it was all guess work with lives in the balance.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Interesting. So, did you have symptoms? You’re the only person I ‘know’ who has a positive result. Very curious to hear your details.
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Yes, in mid-March. The worst fatigue and headaches that I've ever experienced and it lasted about 2-3 weeks. When I say fatigue, I mean I literally could barely move my body for one of those three weeks. I have to give blood quarterly anyway, so my hematologist just added the test to everything else they check.
 
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heisman said:
Yes, in mid-March. The worst fatigue and headaches that I've ever experienced and it lasted about 2-3 weeks. When I say fatigue, I mean I literally could barely move my body for one of those three weeks. I have to give blood quarterly anyway, so my hematologist just added the test to everything else they check.
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Glad you're good-to-go...
 
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I heard the other day that blood type was a factor in how likely COVID would affect people, and this article indicates that folks with blood type O are less susceptible, and blood type A makes one more susceptible to COVID.

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Genes, Blood Type Tied to Risk of Severe COVID-19
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In fact, the findings suggest that people with blood type A face a 50 percent greater risk of needing oxygen support or a ventilator should they become infected with the novel coronavirus. In contrast, people with blood type O appear to have about a 50 percent reduced risk of severe COVID-19.

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