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HarthorneWingo wrote:My sauces are saying this is a 2 year pandemic and that it’ll be in waves. I’d invest heavily in the internet porn business.
Number of U.S. fatalities is projected to be 400,000+ This virus has to move us to change our healthcare model. We are not prepared.
Stay inside.
HarthorneWingo wrote:My sauces are saying this is a 2 year pandemic and that it’ll be in waves. I’d invest heavily in the internet porn business.
Number of U.S. fatalities is projected to be 400,000+ This virus has to move us to change our healthcare model. We are not prepared.
Stay inside.
Rasho Brezec wrote:I don't think people realize how serious this is. If you're over 80, it's very likely you're going to die in the next two years. If you have pre-existing heart, respiratory or neurological condition, same.
HarthorneWingo wrote:My sauces are saying this is a 2 year pandemic and that it’ll be in waves. I’d invest heavily in the internet porn business.
Number of U.S. fatalities is projected to be 400,000+ This virus has to move us to change our healthcare model. We are not prepared.
Stay inside.
Stannis wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:My sauces are saying this is a 2 year pandemic and that it’ll be in waves. I’d invest heavily in the internet porn business.
Number of U.S. fatalities is projected to be 400,000+ This virus has to move us to change our healthcare model. We are not prepared.
Stay inside.
Pornhub and Xvideos need to go public
WE'RE NOT GOING BACK TO NORMAL
To stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop, manage our health, educate our kids, take care of family members.
We all want things to go back to normal quickly. But what most of us have probably not yet realized—yet will soon—is that things won’t go back to normal after a few weeks, or even a few months. Some things never will.
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Living in a state of pandemic
In the short term, this will be hugely damaging to businesses that rely on people coming together in large numbers: restaurants, cafes, bars, nightclubs, gyms, hotels, theaters, cinemas, art galleries, shopping malls, craft fairs, museums, musicians and other performers, sporting venues (and sports teams), conference venues (and conference producers), cruise lines, airlines, public transportation, private schools, day-care centers. That’s to say nothing of the stresses on parents thrust into home-schooling their kids, people trying to care for elderly relatives without exposing them to the virus, people trapped in abusive relationships, and anyone without a financial cushion to deal with swings in income.
thebuzzardman wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:I don't think people realize how serious this is. If you're over 80, it's very likely you're going to die in the next two years. If you have pre-existing heart, respiratory or neurological condition, same.
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Rasho Brezec wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:I don't think people realize how serious this is. If you're over 80, it's very likely you're going to die in the next two years. If you have pre-existing heart, respiratory or neurological condition, same.
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Rasho Brezec wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:I don't think people realize how serious this is. If you're over 80, it's very likely you're going to die in the next two years. If you have pre-existing heart, respiratory or neurological condition, same.
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Stannis wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Damn. This is like a modern Dark Ages.
Kampuchea wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Not sure it "likely won't help" as the stats show 85% survival for over 80-year-olds.
Rasho Brezec wrote:Kampuchea wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Not sure it "likely won't help" as the stats show 85% survival for over 80-year-olds.
And younger age groups have larger survival rate so they get priority. That's why daily newspapers went from 1 page of obituaries to 10.
Kampuchea wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Kampuchea wrote:
Not sure it "likely won't help" as the stats show 85% survival for over 80-year-olds.
And younger age groups have larger survival rate so they get priority. That's why daily newspapers went from 1 page of obituaries to 10.
Ok, that I understand.
They just can't be telling people they are likely to die anyway so they won't help them, that is just a lie.
Rasho Brezec wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:I don't think people realize how serious this is. If you're over 80, it's very likely you're going to die in the next two years. If you have pre-existing heart, respiratory or neurological condition, same.
Not fair how you are playing the odds here. A lot of those people would be dying anyway.
In all seriousness, I agree.
Also, there are the people who will die in certain areas when the hospitals become overwhelmed and they die of other conditions.
Italian regions who are most affected right now have a cut-off rate for intensive care. If you're over a certain age, they won't even bother hooking you up on ventilators because it's likely it won't help and they're better off saving it for someone younger with better odds.
Amid these dire trends, South Korea has emerged as a sign of hope and a model to emulate. The country of 50 million appears to have greatly slowed its epidemic; it reported only 74 new cases today, down from 909 at its peak on 29 February. And it has done so without locking down entire cities or taking some of the other authoritarian measures that helped China bring its epidemic under control. “South Korea is a democratic republic, we feel a lockdown is not a reasonable choice,” says Kim Woo-Joo, an infectious disease specialist at Korea University. South Korea’s success may hold lessons for other countries—and also a warning: Even after driving case numbers down, the country is braced for a resurgence.
Behind its success so far has been the most expansive and well-organized testing program in the world, combined with extensive efforts to isolate infected people and trace and quarantine their contacts. South Korea has tested more than 270,000 people, which amounts to more than 5200 tests per million inhabitants—more than any other country except tiny Bahrain, according to the Worldometer website. The United States has so far carried out 74 tests per 1 million inhabitants, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
South Korea’s experience shows that “diagnostic capacity at scale is key to epidemic control,” says Raina MacIntyre, an emerging infectious disease scholar at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. “Contact tracing is also very influential in epidemic control, as is case isolation,” she says.
LordCovington33 wrote:I have been sick for a week with breathing difficulties, sore throat and muscle fatigue, but no fever. So stressful. I could not get a corona test as I do not meet the criteria, but got the very horrible nasal swab from a local physician. I came back positive with human rhinovirus. A freaking relief.
Capn'O wrote:LordCovington33 wrote:I have been sick for a week with breathing difficulties, sore throat and muscle fatigue, but no fever. So stressful. I could not get a corona test as I do not meet the criteria, but got the very horrible nasal swab from a local physician. I came back positive with human rhinovirus. A freaking relief.
I can confirm that being otherwise sick right now is SUPER stressful.