re: This is the dumbest most over reactive shite ever

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There is no cure. A trend is only temporary, this is more transmittable than the flu... you're not stopping anything... only slight delay.

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You are incorrect. There are two possibilities that could bail out those who are immuno-comprimised.

1. We get a vaccine. This could be as soon as December.
2. Enough people get this that we have herd immunity.

In each of these cases the immuno-comprimised could hunker down until it’s safe. In case #1, that could be 8 months. In case #2, that would be a couple of years. Neither of these cases would require a lengthy lockdown. Just lockdown long enough to lower the infection rate like S Korea did. Then shift to a mitigation strategy that S Korea has already PROVED to be effective. The mitigation strategy includes everyone back at work.

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you don't shut down the whole economic system for basically the flu plus.

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This is great progress for you. A month ago it was just the flu.

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Yes can bet your arse if a democrat was the incumbent this shite would be on the third page of the newspaper and take up maybe two minutes on the network news.

When Obama was president and we had the last outbreak, 3000 Americans died and the world did not end.

This is mostly about politics. This isn’t as bad as the swine flu or avian flu that hit in the past decade.

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This was actually posted yesterday? 1) You’re dumb as all frick. 2) Carry your dumbass to the fricking Poliboard with the fricking stupid shite, fricking dumbass. frick

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We are out of Vents as of today btw.

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So sorry to hear this. God bless you and all the other health professionals on the front lines who are now or soon to be forced to make judgment calls against your hippocratic oath to do no harm. The lack of leadership and planning in this country has caused this strain on the medical community.

Until the MAGAts have personal experience with a family member or friend who gets cast aside without a life-saving device because they are "gonna die anyway", they will continue to put money ahead of human life. There's no sense continuing to argue.

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And if they’ve already been exposed and get sick? Leave them at home to die a miserable death alone?

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Why weren't they in isolation weeks ago, my parents have been? What does that have to do with everyone else, people die miserable deaths every day?

Being a drama queen isn't going to change the facts, the old sick people should be in isolation... this really isn't complex. I went to Walmart last week, 80% of the people were 65+, I would say most were over 75. Not sure what this has to do with the rest of the population.

What about they stay at home? LOL Problem solved.

At this point, its like arguing with people that think the moon is made out of cheese. To be honest, not even sure what your point is.

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My friend, an Active Duty servicemember that played rugby in college and is still extremely healthy just got released back to his home for 14 days of quarantine after spending a week in an off-base medical center with pneumonia in both lungs. He’s just over 40. He’s fine now because the system in South Carolina isn’t overwhelmed and they could give him the care he needed. If there was no bed space, it could have gone very differently.

It’s not just the old that this hits hard. Sure, it’s anecdotal, but to imply folks under 60 won’t be hit hard is just wrong.

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Actually you're wrong, the data is widely available... this is clearly an elderly issue that doesn't mean that younger people can't be impacted, just not very likely... much less than the flu. I actually think that I had this already, in January.

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Coronavirus ‘may have already infected half of UK population’

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This has been suggested by many of us on this forum even a week ago.

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All of this has been a huge waste of time, resources and possibly a destruction of the financial credit system.

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No, it was wise to do the social isolation. The death toll would be far higher had we been overrun - and we would have been. But the next week should show a leveling out, and our capacity has been tremendously increased. I think Trump is on the right track now. Unless something goes asunder, we can go back to work in a week or two, except for isolated cities.

We have not destroyed our “financial credit system”, lol. My credit cards still work; my mortgage is good; and my business’ line of credit is active.

ETA: Geauxfightingtiger, You should check out the WSJ piece from today (25th) suggesting the infection rates are about 20 times higher than we’ve thought, and that the morbidity rate is about 1/10 of the flu. Not a typo there.

I just parachuted into this thread and regret it.

Some people are irretrievably stupid.