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

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kujirakira said:
That's what I miss about Japanese bathrooms. My apartment' bathroom was just a giant wetspace. Not even a tub... when the norovirus came, I just spent all 24hrs in there with the heated toilet seat to comfort me.
Didn't bother kneeling to the porcelain god either... coming out 3 holes at once. Wash it all down the drains.
Bleach when I could eat again.
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MililaniBuckeye said:
One of my co-workers was comparing the populations of Italy (60M people, hard hit) and Japan (120M, virtually unaffected). The population distribution across age-groups is eerily similar...virtual mirrors of each other. ..we came to several conclusions:

1. Difference in social norms:
a) Japanese do not touch each other when greeting--they bow from a distance, while Italians have high school-level petting when greeting each other
b) Japanese have all been wearing masks since day one, while Italians haven't (as far as we know)
2. Immediate reaction. Japan was on it from day one, while Italy took a while to take he threat seriously

This suggests that the spread of the virus in Italy is less about the potency of the virus and more about general personal sanitation. Also, Japan looks like they just may have leveled of in their infection rate:

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By Hollie McKay | Fox News
“Italians are incredibly communal, social people who live in multigenerational family clusters and multifamily housing units. Social distancing is the opposite of Italian culture,” noted Dr. Summer McGee, dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven. “The wonderful family and community-centric nature of Italians has become their greatest vulnerability in the time of a global pandemic.”
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Well, yeah. The bubonic plague peaked and then declined. But let's keep the peak low if possible.
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According to the CDC, 70% of hospitalizations are for patients over 85 years old. If you truly wanted to flatten the curve, you quarantine anyone over 85 for a month. Problem solved. All the rest of this seems like total tomfoolery.
 
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heisman said:
According to the CDC, 70% of hospitalizations are for patients over 85 years old. If you truly wanted to flatten the curve, you quarantine anyone over 85 for a month. Problem solved. All the rest of this seems like total tomfoolery.
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odd

here’s a statement from the CDC earlier today saying 40% were under 54
https://abcnews.go.com/US/40-hospitalized-coronavirus-younger-54-cdc/story?id=69681304
Data released Wednesday night by the CDC shows that of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized in the U.S. for COVID-19, about 20% of those were ages 20 to 44 and another 18% were between the ages of 45 and 54.
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soo doesn’t look like your theory of lock up the old people would work
 
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heisman said:
According to the CDC, 70% of hospitalizations are for patients over 85 years old. If you truly wanted to flatten the curve, you quarantine anyone over 85 for a month. Problem solved. All the rest of this seems like total tomfoolery.
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1) 30% would be a huge problem, if that were all it was. It's not:

2) it's hitting all ages hard and tying up beds:

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of U.S. cases from Feb. 12 to March 16 released Wednesday shows 38 percent of those sick enough to be hospitalized were younger than 55.
Earlier this week, French health ministry official Jérome Salomon said half of the 300 to 400 coronavirus patients treated in intensive care units in Paris were younger than 65, and, according to numbers presented at a seminar of intensive care specialists, half the ICU patients in the Netherlands were younger than 50.
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From the cdc itself
Overall, 31% of cases, 45% of hospitalizations, 53% of ICU admissions, and 80% of deaths associated with COVID-19 were among adults aged ≥65 years with the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years. In contrast, no ICU admissions or deaths were reported among persons aged ≤19 years. Similar to reports from other countries, this finding suggests that the risk for serious disease and death from COVID-19 is higher in older age groups.
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it doesn't kill or hospitalize minors.
It absolutely hospitalizes everyone else. The 65+ year olds don't even have a majority on the hospitalizations. That's how broad the glut is.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Shakespeare wrote King Lear under a plague quarantine.

Newton discovered gravity under a plague quarantine.

I'm going to binge watch Bond movies and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia episodes.
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I’m rather frightened of the honey do list I’ll have while I work from home... its not mandatory soooo my ass might be heading into to work ...
 
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