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re: So all the new science is pointing out COVID isn't as bad as the normal Flu
Posted on 4/18/20 at 9:53 pm to AMS
Posted on 4/18/20 at 9:53 pm to AMS
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Social distancing does not mitigate severity, or incidence
If you dont think staying in your house and avoiding interactions with anyone with a week plus doesn’t lower incidence of infection, I don’t know what to say.
Obviously further discussion is pointless
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Social distancing doesnt do shite for severity/mortality of COVID, it only stretches out the timeframe, it wont reduce total # of infections or mortality.
Except for the reality that mortality shoots through the roof in multiple places where population density causes a flood of cases.
For what you say to be true, you wouldn’t see the pattern in multiple countries of a localized area accounting for a disproportionate portion of mortality vs population.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 10:25 pm
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Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:06 pm to Volvagia
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If you dont think staying in your house and avoiding interactions with anyone with a week plus doesn’t lower incidence of infection, I don’t know what to say.
Obviously further discussion is pointless
Yea but thats not what’s happening. No one is actually staying in there home with 0 outside contact for 2 weeks. People still go the the store, get gas, get mail, go get food. Social distancing only delays when some people get infected. It doesnt reduce the severity or total # of infected. Just slows the rate. You dont gain immunity by being inside lmao.
Flu vaccines reduce ICU admissions for those vaccinated by ~60%, decreases avg hospitalization stay by 4 days. CDC estimates it prevented more than 6 million infections. Social distancing effect on rate of infected needing ICU/hospitalized/infected = little to none. Social distancing was always only to ‘flatten the curve’, the area under the curve is the same, just spread out. If you dont understand that, read it again, otherwise, further discussion is obviously pointless because you think pretending to quarantine legitimately mitigates severity of COVID, more than vaccines which actually mitigate flu severity.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:11 pm to Volvagia
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Except for the reality that mortality shoots through the roof in multiple places where population density causes a flood of cases.
For what you say to be sure, you wouldn’t see the pattern in multiple countries of a localized area accounting for a disproportionate portion of mortality vs population.
Social distancing doesnt impact severity of the illness, just the slows the rate of infection for fricks sake. This means that of those who get infected the same mortality rate will be seenit just spreads out the same mortality rate in time. A virus doesnt work harder to kill you because you live in New York vs Idaho.
Social distance flattens the curve, it doesnt reduce the area under the curve. Flu vaccines do both.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 10:17 pm
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