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

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Jaxbuck said:
CDC is putting out lockdown guidance with 8 weeks in it.

Pence is supposed to be delivering some more draconian lockdown rules tomorrow.

There is no way this can go one for 8 weeks. As soon as people get hungry there will be violence. It's coming.
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DeWine is drinking the same Kool Aid. These rich assholes think everyone else can just stop because they can afford to do it.

If they are that stupid then we really are in trouble.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Let's starve Little Billy (the future) to death so Grandma Tilly (the past) can live two more years.

You fucking boomers are the most selfish generation in the history of the world.
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As if deciding who is worth living and dying is any better?

We're all stressed, but let's hope we don't get to the point that you're suggesting.
 
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Jake said:
As if deciding who is worth living and dying is any better?

We're all stressed, but let's hope we don't get to the point that you're suggesting.
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If it goes more than 2-3 weeks (lockdowns) I don't see how we can avoid this basic conflict.

I think it's important to remember that "flattening the curve" doesn't mean they are saving anyone in the older age group. It means they are trying to delay the inevitable just long enough not to swamp the medical system and kill a bunch of people currently sick from something else.

Three groups here really; 1) the financially at risk, 2) the potentially at risk if health care system is swamped and 3) the at risk group from CVID-19

#3 is in trouble no matter what.
#2 is a complete unknown as to extent/duration etc
#1 is the group being consciously harmed

Seems to me like they are working the problem backwards. Logic tells me to save #1, take chances with #2 and say goodbye to #3.
 
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Dryden said:
Narrator: They are that stupid.
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I remember the first season of Fear the Walking Dead.

The overreaction to this bad mutation of the common cold is mind-blowing. If the lights ever REALLY go out in Las Vegas, people will be eating each other within 72 hours. They won't even be undead. The living will be eating each other. It started with hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer. They're buying guns and hoarding bullets now.
 
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Buckeneye said:
I don't give a shit. That number might go either way. You go off what you know, not what you don't know. Right now the mortality rate is deaths vs total confirmed cases. It SHOULD lower as the number grows, but at the moment Italy is in bad shape.



https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

169k with 6,500 dead. That's near 4% total. Good news champ, we're half way to your swine flu comparison and things are just getting started.
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It matters. A lot. The total number of cases will ALWAYS be higher than the number of confirmed cases. The people who get tested were sick enough to go to the ER or go get tested. What about the MILLIONS of people that got sick and recovered and were never tested?

Simple mathematical vectors prove that virtually everyone on the planet has already been exposed to Coronachan.
 
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BayBuck said:
C’mon now, that’s a bit harsh... School lunches are one part of the schools that actually helps keep kids alive. So take care of that first, then they will figure out how to push out “classroom” materials to the kids soon enough. Our district sent home a ton of stuff with the kids on Friday, and I expect a million emails going forward.
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Fair enough, but exactly which part is "a bit harsh"?

The part about the fact that the primary concern expressed by two leaders from two of our biggest population areas is how to get food to the kids who can't make it to school?
 
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Buckeneye said:
You still can't comprehend mortality rate, can you? It's not physics so I'm not sure how or why this is hard to digest? Even our best numbers right now put this particular affliction as 20x worse than the flu. Again - straight by the numbers. That number may decrease and I pray it does. But if it does not, then that 650k can be very easily topped within a years time.

Is there any part of that you're not processing?






He's an idiot. That much is clear now.
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Oh my God, we're all gonna die!

The ENTIRE WORLD has already been exposed to Coronachan. Pick a number between 1-10. What's 10^6? What's 100^6? Hint: it's 10000,000,000,000
 
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lvbuckeye said:
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I'm not a professional mathematician, but...
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Neither am I, but my wild guess, based on my experience in China going back now about 3 months and watching the numbers every couple hours every day during that time is this...

I suspect that the mortality rate is tied / correlated mostly to two factors:
1. Testing rate (how many of a population, in statistical terms are tested and why are those people tested)
2. Socio-economic and age / health demographics within a country / region (older people + higher rates of pre-existing conditions like asthma / diabetes / respiratory issues / etc. + lower income / less or limited access to preventative healthcare)
 
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