PigsEatHam wrote:EAS Law wrote:PigsEatHam wrote:
Yep, hate it when those over-reactive epidemiologists and wild-eyed infectious disease physicians start issuing urgent warnings just because a few thousand people start dying and the WHO declares a global pandemic. What nervous nellies. If you contract coronavirus, just walk it off, and you'll be fine.
Urgent warnings to whom and with respect to what? All a pandemic means is that a disease is prevalent within a country or the world. It does not make anything more deadly.
The “thousands” people keep talking about dying are in comparison to the 7.7 billion people on the planet.
Normal influenza kills 200,000 to 650,000 people every year—even young people sometimes. Where is the panic?
Please. I’m not speaking on ignorance. I’ve consulted with doctors on this who all have told me the same. Turn off the news and consider your sources.
Here's one source, and it ain't CNN.
https://www.dynamed.com/condition/covid-19-novel-coronavirus The editor of this article is a Harvard professor and Infectious Disease specialist. It's written by physicians for physicians treating patients at the point of care.
And the reason why thousands of deaths is concerning compared to say the flu or measles or car accidents or whatever else that might have a high mortality rate is that this hasn't been contained, and there isn't a vaccine for it yet, so you either fight it off with your natural immune system and antimicrobial medications (something many people can manage) or you can't and there isn't much they can do for you.
It's not a matter of panic, but just a matter of taking the threat seriously and trying to mitigate the damage.
That was good information.
I was surprised to see that the highest number of cases were in those aged 30-65. That does affect a lot of people that I wouldn’t have suspected. I suppose that also incorporates those that are most commonly in contact with others and those are cases of not deaths caused by.
Because it’s so new, I do see the reason to take precautions and be aware of it generally. I think Bensational summarized it best in his post here.
I’m still not seeing anything that I think is especially alarming, and I think that the statistics are being viewed in a light most favorable to panic because that’s what the media would like to do to keep you glued to their 24/7 coverage, but that was a good source with good info.
