Coronavirus/COVID-19

[Slax]

I went to a Chinese buffet yesterday and I was practically the only one there. It's like people don't want to get the virus.

Man I am craving some Chinese buffet now

[Bleeding Green]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

[Slax]

OK, I have to ask this - Why toilet paper? I understand masks and hand sanitizer. I personally bought extra Zicam and Advil for the cruise I just got back from. But why toilet paper? How much do you need to ride this out for two weeks? or a month? Why is this such a big concern?

I bought toilet paper at Aldi last night while getting my groceries because we were almost out. There was plenty but Florida is not ramped up on the virus yet. I didn't buy anything extra.

Women need toilet paper like we need air to breathe. It's one of our things.

And so it shall remain until our apocalyptic future where only bidets and air drying are available.

[denmuscles]

People that are not taking this seriously are probably the people who have higher chance of getting infected. I cant understand when someone says I don’t care, I will not cancel this or that...like thats how this crap started to spread. My mom is 71 yrs old with COPD and heart disease. She WILL die if she catches this. So yes Im taking it seriously

[The Corey's]

At what point do you hold china accountable for something that's apparently gonna spread across the glob and kill countless people?

Their communist rule kept this thing from being something we should of been focusing on since December.

[The Corey's]

Where are you guys? We’re waiting any day now for it to hit Maine. I work at a hospital up here and we’ve been preparing for it. Fully expecting major chances very soon.

My wife's hospital is in Brooklyn. New York is getting hit pretty hard right now, so it was bound to happen eventually.

Damn hoping the best for you guys! We were more or less told we might be on unpaid leave if we contact it outside of work and don’t want to use PTO/sick team. Great..

That has lawsuit written all over it

Even walmart is gonna pay their employees

[K For Three]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

It's worth noting even if you are a normal healthy person and survive it, it might still weaken you long term in some way. That possibility is there.

To put it simply; you really don't want to catch this thing....

[Slax]

At what point do you hold china accountable for something that's apparently gonna spread across the glob and kill countless people?

Their communist rule kept this thing from being something we should of been focusing on since December.

Not to say that China responded to this in an exemplary way, but we're **** up our response too even though we had a couple months of lead time to prepare, so it's not like China was unique in that regard. The punishment and accountability is that now we all live in a world where a bunch of people will get sick and die.

[Captain_Caveman]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Read on Twitter

Apply this estimate to the mortality rate of your choice. 70 million people with a 0.5% mortality rate is 350,000 deaths in the US alone, and those might be on the lower end of estimates.

[Captain_Caveman]

At what point do you hold china accountable for something that's apparently gonna spread across the glob and kill countless people?

Their communist rule kept this thing from being something we should of been focusing on since December.

[K For Three]

Read on Twitter

[chrisab123]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Call me a daredevil but I'll risk it for 100k.

[Bleeding Green]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Read on Twitter

Apply this estimate to the mortality rate of your choice. 70 million people with a 0.5% mortality rate is 350,000 deaths in the US alone, and those might be on the lower end of estimates.

The people not taking this seriously are genuinely out of their minds. At the high end projection, 150 million people contracting it at the current mortality rate of 3.7 pct is completely devastating. 5.5 million people in the US. Now I'm sure this mortality rate will plummet once we have a longer timeframe to look at with people recovering, and just more data in general, but it's still going to be an order of magnitude or two higher than a standard seasonal flu.

[Bleeding Green]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Call me a daredevil but I'll risk it for 100k.

It's not being a daredevil, it's taking other people's lives into your hands for profit. But yeah, if you want to go lock yourself in a negatively pressured vault for a month with zero human contact, go for it.

[chrisab123]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Just because you aren't worried about getting it yourself, you can still very easily infect others who are in a more vulnerable population. You must have parents or grandparents, possibly with pre-existing conditions. And as others have said (including myself), the real danger isn't the individual cases, but what happens when such a huge population is infected, ~20% needing hospitalization, and the healthcare system is overburdened to the point where they can't treat everyone. All of a sudden a 1-2% mortality rates starts to increase. This isn't hypothetical, it's happening right now in Italy and it's going to happen here.

I don't mean to sound condescending but I hope you take some time to educate yourself a little more on this because it's not just the flu.

So...if I don't have it then how can I infect people? I get being asymptomatic but its a silly way to live life. Just assume you're a carrier until you aren't. But to the bolded part, Unfortunately, my grandmother recently passed so the bolded really doesn't apply to me. However, if I don't feel sick I'm just going to continue to live my life. If I feel sick I'll stay home. Its simple logic. But more power to people who decide to hoard toilet paper and stuff.

[The Corey's]

At what point do you hold china accountable for something that's apparently gonna spread across the glob and kill countless people?

Their communist rule kept this thing from being something we should of been focusing on since December.

Trump punish them for way less.

You cant have a rapid virus outbreak and literally kill your own citizens to contain such humiliation an expect to get away with it.

[Parliament10]

I'm not a doctor so maybe I'm missing something but IMO It's a flu that is hyped by fear. This is pretty ridiculous. I'm not canceling any of my travel plans and neither should anyone else. Also if anyone is pointing to the St Patricks Day parade as an indication of the severity of this then that is insane. Marty Walsh has probably wanted to get rid of that yearly headache for a couple of years. This is a good excuse to do so. Look, just wash your hands and stop buying an abundance of toilet paper and water. Everyone that doesn't have a shot immune system will be fine.

That being said if someone is willing to pay me 100k to contract the virus I'm all in.

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Call me a daredevil but I'll risk it for 100k.

Can you stop saying that in this Thread.
This is far too serious to be so cavalier.

~ Parl

[canman1971]

Crazy times certainly. I work in a NH HS and would not like to be the one who has to make the decision to go all online. I don't think it will happen, but things I am reading is saying it's better to do it before rather than wait until it happens.

[Bleeding Green]

At what point do you hold china accountable for something that's apparently gonna spread across the glob and kill countless people?

Their communist rule kept this thing from being something we should of been focusing on since December.

Trump punish them for way less.

You cant have a rapid virus outbreak and literally kill your own citizens to contain such humiliation an expect to get away with it.

Is this intentionally ironic or is this not exactly what the United States is doing right now? The executive branch is saying it's no big deal, just a flu, no one dies from the flu. Just pray it away, etc. Oil is down, good for consumers!

[chrisab123]

Yeah it's just a flu that is more contagious and 100-200x as likely to kill you. And if you're healthy you may be asymptomatic and spread it around to dozens of people with compromised immune systems, who then die. No big deal.

Call me a daredevil but I'll risk it for 100k.

Can you stop saying that in this Thread.
This is far too serious to be so cavalier.

~ Parl

All due respect. I have a right to express an opinion that maybe 90 percent of you might not agree with. Otherwise, the thread becomes a sounding board of people who just agree with each other and then it becomes a feeding frenzy of who can make themselves the most paranoid. I never said I'd get sick and go to a sporting event or anything crazy. All I said is give me 100k and I'll take my chances. I'd obviously stay in the house lol. If you're sick then please stay home and don't spread it. But if you aren't then what's the point of sitting around waiting to get the virus?