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For fuck sakes, will one of you smarts convince me otherwise? Corona just a bunch-a-shit. Imagine

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  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344

    hardhat said:

    BearsWiin said:

    89ute said:

    BearsWiin said:

    89ute said:

    IT'S NOT THE FLU.

    But if the tv media had a flu tote board like CNN does in a split screen where every flu death was reported telethon style I'd expect a pretty severe reaction.

    if it's not the flu, what is it? right or wrong, most likely wrong, i've been thinking it's best described as a strain of flu.
    Very definitely wrong

    Influenza viruses and corona viruses are not related
    May not be related, but they appear to be very similar

    https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu

    Similarities: COVID-19 and the Flu
    Symptoms

    Both cause fever, cough, body aches and fatigue; sometimes vomiting and diarrhea.
    Can be mild or severe, even fatal in rare cases.
    Can result in pneumonia.

    Transmission

    Both can be spread from person to person through droplets in the air from an infected person coughing, sneezing or talking.
    A possible difference: COVID-19 might be spread through the airborne route (see details below under Differences).
    Both can be spread by an infected person for several days before their symptoms appear.

    Treatment

    Neither virus is treatable with antibiotics, which only work on bacterial infections.
    Both are treated by addressing symptoms, such as reducing fever. Severe cases may require hospitalization and support such as mechanical ventilation.

    Prevention

    Both may be prevented by frequent, thorough hand washing, coughing into the crook of your elbow, staying home when sick and limiting contact with people who are infected. Social distancing can limit the spread of COVID-19 in communities.

    ********

    The BIG SCARY difference between the two is that there is no vaccine for COVID-19.

    I'm not pretending to be some smart fuck but it seams to me it's a flu-like illness arguably more contagious than the flu. Telling me I'm wrong does not tell me anything.

    It tells you that you're wrong. Influenza and SARS-covid viruses are not related. They can cause similar symptoms, but that does not make them the same.

    Covid-19 has a CFR rate probably ten times higher than the seasonal flu, and humans have no natural immunity to it (yet).

    This is high school-level biology here. Nothing partisan or expert about it.

    To your original question, no. Nobody here will convince you otherwise because you're predisposed to think that this is just the flu. Like most conservatives, you won't give a shit until it hits you personally. At this poont you've been affected by the disruption and not the virus itself, so you have the luxury of bitching about that. I actually hope that the virus doesn't affect you (or anybody else here) so the braintruste here can continue to gleefully complain that it's all a big lib/statist hoax, but sadly I fear that that will not be the case
    How did this shit take turn out?
    @BearsWiin lit himself on fire.

    Ruled a covid death.



  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,256 Founders Club

    This is just another stark example of why Utah has no business in the conference of champions.

  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,593 Standard Supporter
    Mostly a hoax to steal an election with assistance from communist China and others.

    The PCR test can't tell the difference between Flu, Chicom Crud or even any corona virus based cold. There were only 1080 Flu cases in 202 and now you know why. Last I knew they still haven't sent out the new test that is supposed to differentiate. It was due out Dec. 31st.

    Cooked the books and did the overthrow of our government. Fuck them all.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,525 Founders Club
    haie said:

    I just don't care about it. Open up th economy on April 12 like Trump is eyeing to do. End of April at the latest. Lock down New York if you need to. This is just silly with all the retards predicting doomsday. They're going to keep moving the goalposts now and say, "Yeah but next month it'll get unmanageable, then next month, then next month."

    Now it's admittance it will die in summer but come back in the fall.

    You just don't understand how an exponential equation works. You just want old people to die so you can go to Starbucks again.

    Fuck off

  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    GDS said:

    @89ute this thing is potentially more contagious than the flu but ranges around pneumonia in how deadly it is. Neither of those two things is super alarming but put them together and well it's more concerning.

    Combine that with an aging population and how rapidly it infects and well, it might only kill 15,000 people in the US but it might do it in a week. All of the sick people will overwhelm the hospitals if it all is within 1 week as well. That will grab headlines regardless.

    Study just published in Germany shows that its much more contagious. The virus is shedding very early and in yuge volumes which makes it much harder to contain.

    They compared it to SARS which reached its peak infectious period later in the cycle when the illness moved deep into the lungs. covid 19 seems to reach peak shed earlier while still in upper respiratory. At its peak covid 19 is shedding 1,000 times more virus than SARS patients were emitting at peak shed...this ain’t the flu.
    Tell me moar about shedding. Is that what pets do also?
  • hardhat
    hardhat Member Posts: 8,344
    They need to come back for a victory lap. Stand up a take a bow, wine moms.
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967

    Hot takes from Tugshitlibs.