MERS and SARS are Covid viruses. You don't seem to grasp the reason why viruses mutate.
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MERS and SARS are Covid viruses. You don't seem to grasp the reason why viruses mutate.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I am just saying that as far as I know, my personal friends and family have all avoided contact with those outside their house. Slightly more flexible with saying hi to neighbours at a distance, but a hard line around the elderly (>20', through a window/door or video calls).
The problem right now is not old people dying.
The problem is that there are strains on the healthcare system that can't handle the number of cases all at once. Okay, so a 45-year old doesn't die of the disease, but he has severe respiratory problems and takes up a bed and a respirator in a hospital.
This uses up resources that would otherwise go towards tending a car accident victim. A burn victim. Blunt force trauma victim from slips and falls. Gunshot wounds.
The whole idea of shutting down parks and businesses is to slow the spread of the disease. It's called "flattening the curve" of incidences so our healthcare system can manage.
This is not an "old person" problem. It's an "access to healthcare for everyone" problem.
My appologies, you are correct. I looked it up a couple of weeks ago and swear what I read was that the flu was more transmissible.That is 100% wrong.
Contagiousness is measured by R-0, the number of people you are likely to infect if you have a disease. These are the numbers:
COVID-19 is twice as transmissible than the seasonal flu.
That situation would terrify me. My wife has to go to work every day in a hospital with Covid patients. If my parents or in-laws lived with us, we would be sending them somewhere until an effective treatment or vaccine is available. Most of them have a low chance of surviving Covid with the health care situation right now.
Maybe a few weeks ago it was, it's a very fluid situation.
If I had two living units, I would be ok with it. The only common would be the furnace and I am not concerned about droplets making it through the filter. Just pretend they are still in florida and continue with the skype calls.
The reason why everyone is taking this so seriously over the seasonal flu is because it's more contagious and the mortality rate is higher.
Also, there is no vaccine, and no herd immunity in place yet because it's a new virus, hence the term "novel" coranavirus.
And the mortality rate in certain segments of the population is pretty horrendous. Pineview is up to 25% of the residents dead.The reason why everyone is taking this so seriously over the seasonal flu is because it's more contagious and the mortality rate is higher.
Also, there is no vaccine, and no herd immunity in place yet because it's a new virus, hence the term "novel" coranavirus.
If you look at the stats, it is an old person problem. They are the ones that are getting the most infections, and ending up in the hospitals with the severest cases. If the gov't is to intervene, then put them on house arrest, they'd probably be safer that way. Not to mention, they have nothing better to do, they're retired. Not allowing a pb&j sandwich at school because a very small percentage of kids has an allergy to peanuts is ridiculous.
Another sad fact is I can guarantee depression and suicide rates are going to skyrocket because of this financial shutdown. A vast majority of people here are paycheck to paycheck, losing their houses and cars isn't going to do them any good.
As expected, Trumpy just cut off a supply of masks.
globalnews.ca
"U.S.-based company 3M said Friday that it can no longer supply N95 respirators to Canada amid the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered Minnesota-based company to produce and sell as many medical-grade masks as the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it needs. He invoked the Defence Production Act in order to speed up the distribution of masks."
Coronavirus: Trump asks medical supply firm 3M to stop selling N95 respirators to Canada - National | Globalnews.ca
Trump invoked the Defence Production Act in an effort to speed up the distribution of desperately needed hospital masks amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
globalnews.ca
"U.S.-based company 3M said Friday that it can no longer supply N95 respirators to Canada amid the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered Minnesota-based company to produce and sell as many medical-grade masks as the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it needs. He invoked the Defence Production Act in order to speed up the distribution of masks."
And there won't be an immunity until people recover after getting it.
It's too early to tell if you are immune after getting over COVID-19. Or how long that immunity lasts for.
There are reports of people getting sick after they've recovered.
Still too early to make that call either way, from what I am reading.
it’s more transmissible than the flu, asymptomatic people can infect which means in many cases you simply do not know who is a carrier, it affects people with underlying health conditions....do you have a NASA grade health check under your belt that means you’re absolutely sure you don’t have any issues? Children can be carriers..you’d be ok with your kids infecting your mum or dad leading to their death? The respiratory disease that some people experience doesn’t respond to drugs.
This is why the virus keeps infecting....lack of education.
The thing about stats and percentages is that if you multiply that by a large enough population, enough people under 65 and with co-morbidities like asthma or other respiratory ailments, will eventually take up all the space in hospitals.
It is not just an old person thing.
There would likely be evidence of that from the genetic sequence of the virus that’s been performed. There will be snippets of code from whatever the virus passed through on its way to humans. If it’s a bio weapon that was purposefully released it’s a ****** one...it’s affecting everyone everywhere.
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