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!
Yes, unfortunately despite repeated requests people just couldnāt keep the politics out of it, so I moved the whole thread to that category. So letās keep this thread free of that stuff and if you want a political discussion (for donors) join there instead. I will delete political posts from this thread.
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.
Unrelated to this sort of, but when the eclipse happened a couple of years ago we went up to Idaho to watch it. A normal 3 hour drive took 12 to get home, with traffic at a near standstill nearly the entire way. It helped me realize that if we ever needed to flee an area we are cooked, and that was just a small part of the population who cared enough to take the day off, and no panic involved either.
Iāve since wondered with hurricanes etc, how they get people out of there, are the road systems better on the east coast? It was enough of a disaster that I thought that I might be one of those āshelter in placeā guys that defy orders to leave the area.
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.
I evacuated for Hurricane Gustov (first evac after Katrina) when I lived in New Orleans. The evacuation is as you described your eclipse vacation - 15 hours of stop and go traffic to get to Jackson, MS, which is a 3 hour drive under normal conditions. Thatās just how it is. Thereās no magic evacuation plan. This is why people are so hesitant to evacuate.
Wow, Iām glad Iām not in your circle. I havenāt seen anything close to panic or hysteria other than the hysterical conspiracy theories about calories, the CDC, and aliens.
I thought people would be more wound up at church on Sunday, but there wasnāt any panic to speak of.
I havenāt seen any hysteria either. My wife and I did go look at our storage to see if we had enough regular food to last us a month if things got shut down. Not because of any particular concern, just as a good check-up and also because I donāt want to be caught in any hysteria. Weād be fine and other than fresh milk I donāt think weād have to alter our diet much. (For the record I donāt think that will happen, but you never know).
Thinking about fresh milk now, there are plenty of neighborhood cats wandering around, we should be fine on that too.
