If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.[2]
I blame Stephen Kingās āThe Standā for the hysteria. Him killing off like 90 percent of the population with āCaptain Tripps,ā added with the Spanish influenza of the last century - a real pandemic, and the world begins scrambling.
It makes me wish I still had my āHappy Birthday to the Plagueā t-shirt I bought from National Lampoon back in the 1980ās. We still see cases of the plague and nobody talks about it.
Getting sick sucks, and as a diabetic it sucks more. Before diabetes, a flu ran its course in 24 to 36 hours. Now I am down for 3 days on the short end, and usually 5 days. It is why I get a flu shot every fall. Now here comes a flu that doesnāt have a shot to prevent getting it. That is my concern. Hopefully by the next go around there will be a shot ready to prevent getting it.
Thanks for posting and restarting the thread with a reliable and responsible journal resource. (it must have gone off the rails last night)
At this point weāre all just gonna have to bear down, take care of each other, and appreciate how fragile life can be.
Go UTES!
I imagine thatās a spirited discussionā¦
Unfortunately, these types of world events do involve politics, so I regret that we all canāt participate in our courteous and respectful manner.
Anyway, I understand the rules.
I blame the 1980ās. Those hair bands and pseudo-disco, rap, grunge, pop western, pop, new waveā¦things just ruined the airwaves - sort of. At least there were a few classic rock stations still on the air.
Oh and I blame the Aliens. If itās good enough for the History Channel to do it, itās good enough for me.
The marketā¦the Costco water trollsā¦the medical mask hoardersā¦the phone calls to my office (and I am no epidemiologist, MD, etc) about the bugā¦the FacePlace kerfuffle on the community group pagesā¦Itās a damned mess of fear and misinformation.
Iāve been working in local government for almost 15 years and this reaction by the masses is really something I hoped I would never see; and if I saw it, it would be because we had an earthquakeā¦a really big earthquake - and I donāt want to see that either.
Like I stated earlier, I hope they get an immunization for it developed sooner than later.
I think they open up the freeways and have an actual evac plan. Also, you know when a hurricane is coming so not everyone bails the same day. Utahās disaster is going to be an earthquake and weāre effed in terms of warnings given.
Thereās never any benefit from panic, but this documentary is actually a reasonable look at what people did experience in 1918.
Of course, a lot has changed and we have a lot of ways to combat a viral outbreak, but itās interesting to also note how some things havenāt really changed much at allā¦
It was that slow because everyone was still blinded from staring at the sunā¦
I imagine that most of that kind of delay comes from ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā trying to change lanes and go faster than traffic. If everyone just settled down and went 50 instead of trying to go ten mph faster than the person in front, theyād go so much faster.
To this day I always marvel at people who gun it, just to go around people who are already slowing down for an obvious red light.
I also donāt understand how anyone can feel comfortable driving 75 miles an hour, a foot or so off someoneās bumper.
Unless itās the brickyard 500ā¦
I can sorta answer your hurricane question. Here in Ea. NC we have 4 major hurricane evacuation routes, that I can think of off the top of my head. We, due to where we live 2.5hrs inland normal driving conditions) havenāt had to use any of the routes. I gather that both sides of the major freeways are open only in the direction of evacuation (inland). I donāt know that for certain, but the roadways are built decently well for mass evacuation. One of the āgoodā things about the hurricane, unlike an earthquake or other sudden disasters, you have time to get the hell out of Dodge.
In days leading up to hurricanes Iāve seen all sorts of National Guard, utility folks, S&R people all head, en masse to expected areas of damage. Itās rather amazing to see the convoys of these vehicles running into the fire, so to speak.
