27 Mar 20
This article is well worth reading. Those comparing a deadly pandemic to car accidents, suicide rates and terminal illnesses, you do not understand how deadly infectious diseases, when uncontrolled, destroy health care systems and economies. The media is not the enemy. COVID 19 is the enemy.
On 9/11, almost 3,000 lost their lives. Since then, the U.S. has spent over 2 trillion dollars on a war that has lasted over 17 years. Over 4,000 U.S. lives have been lost and over 30,000 civilians in Afghanistan alone have been killed. If the 3,000 9/11 deaths justify all this (which I do not believe it does), we should invest all we can to save young and old and those with preexisting conditions from death by COVID Cooties.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
27 Mar 20
@eladar saidDid you just shrug when those planes hit the World Trade Center ?
Lol you are nut case.
Did the Spanish flu destroy the US healthcare system?
I will tell you when it will end, when flu season ends.
Just a cost of doing Capitalism ?
Hmmm ??
COVID 19 deaths will pass 9/11 before Easter.
Then get back to us with your "just another flu" schtick.
27 Mar 20
@phranny said2 trillion dollars over 17 years and you don't think we'll spend that on COVID-19?
This article is well worth reading. Those comparing a deadly pandemic to car accidents, suicide rates and terminal illnesses, you do not understand how deadly infectious diseases, when uncontrolled, destroy health care systems and economies. The media is not the enemy. COVID 19 is the enemy.
On 9/11, almost 3,000 lost their lives. Since then, the U.S. has spent over 2 tri ...[text shortened]... www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Ha. The relief package now passing spends that in one fell swoop.
27 Mar 20
@mghrn55 saidI would if it was not people declaring war against us. If it was just a single event, then shrug it off. If it was a result of nature, shrug it off.
Did you just shrug when those planes hit the World Trade Center ?
Just a cost of doing Capitalism ?
Hmmm ??
COVID 19 deaths will pass 9/11 before Easter.
Then get back to us with your "just another flu" schtick.
27 Mar 20
@proper-knob saidThere is always a system for healthcare. At one time the system included paying doctors with chicken or pigs.
Was there a US healthcare system in 1918?
27 Mar 20
@eladar saidMaybe they'll reintroduce that one now health care workers are faced with queues in supermarkets with empty shelves, whenever they manage to get away from their over run hospitals.
There is always a system for healthcare. At one time the system included paying doctors with chicken or pigs.
27 Mar 20
@ponderable saidThe numbers do not matter, we survived and moved on.
Care to put a date and numbers on this, just that you can proudly say you were right?
Why do people fear nature? We are all born, we will all die. Death from disease is part of the human condition.
@eladar saidYeah perhaps health care professionals should take themselves off to the nearest wet market and auction themselves off, maybe a chicken for a checkup.
There is always a system for healthcare. At one time the system included paying doctors with chicken or pigs.
Have a look at Italy and Spain or better yet New York, this ain’t seasonal flu, this is something that our species has zero immunity too, and it takes out a sizeable chunk of the old and infirm as well some, but fewer, young and healthy individuals.
Oh yeah and your a halfwit, if it does take you or a loved one out ( I sincerely hope it doesn’t) you can always write it off as seasonal brain stem death.
27 Mar 20
@kevcvs57 saidWe have zero immunity but worse case scenario is that 97 percent of the people will be just fine.
Yeah perhaps health care professionals should take themselves off to the nearest wet market and auction themselves off, maybe a chicken for a checkup.
Have a look at Italy and Spain or better yet New York, this ain’t seasonal flu, this is something that our species has zero immunity too, and it takes out a sizeable chunk of the old and infirm as well some, but fewer, young ...[text shortened]... ved one out ( I sincerely hope it doesn’t) you can always write it off as seasonal brain stem death.
Anytime you get a cold or flu you had no immunity to that virus. Why so kids get chicken pox? They do not have immunity. They had to get sick to get immunity.
That is how nature works.
@eladar saidYour still missing the point though the percentage needing hospital treatment is proving way more than even a developed nations health care system can handle. That will mean premature deaths and poor quality of life for the much bigger percentage of the population who can’t access health care because its capacity has been soaked up by the corona virus. Stop trying to Ape the Ape in the Whitehouse, smell the fekking coffee.
We have zero immunity but worse case scenario is that 97 percent of the people will be just fine.
Anytime you get a cold or flu you had no immunity to that virus. Why so kids get chicken pox? They do not have immunity. They had to get sick to get immunity.
That is how nature works.
28 Mar 20
@eladar saidWell, the worst case scenario is that, having lots of hosts, the virus mutates and becomes more lethal with an infection fatality rate pushing up into double figures. This will lead to systems collapse and even more people will die. So social distancing and depriving it of hosts seems somewhat necessary.
We have zero immunity but worse case scenario is that 97 percent of the people will be just fine.
Anytime you get a cold or flu you had no immunity to that virus. Why so kids get chicken pox? They do not have immunity. They had to get sick to get immunity.
That is how nature works.