re: ‘We Are 10 Days Away From Our Hospitals Getting Creamed’

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What's truly troubling is seeing this board think the "middle ground" is just brushing off the rate of infection and the repercussions that could result from it as nothing. It's okay to find humor in the situation but, when you get mad when people are trying to take this seriously to prevent a catastrophic economical/logistical situation from happening, you just look like an a-hole

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Thank you. The situation is fricking ridiculous. The CDC said they expect as high as 70% of the US population to get this virus and whether the death rate is 1% or 0.1%, if we can keep the number of infected down, the number of dead will be lower. There is also another issue that no one is talking about - lung scarring. A larger percentage than those who die end up with permanent lung scarring that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

I am MAGA as frick and am happy with what I have seen our President do, but if these "just the flu" morons keep this up we will miss the opportunity to help contain the virus or at least minimize the spread. We should have started social distancing by now - buy food for a week instead of 3 days. Time your shopping so that it happens at a time when the stores are not crowded. Stay away from public events for a couple of months. Wash your hands after you go out. Even with the same death rate as the flu, there are 230,000 Americans that will die from this. If we can all pull our heads out of our asses, maybe we can prevent 100,000 of those. It may not matter to you, but it will probably matter to them.

Most people who get the virus don't experience severe symptoms. About 15 - 20% of infected people do. Children are not more susceptible to the disease, unlike influenza.

Q: Are children at increased risk for severe illness, morbidity, or mortality from COVID-19 infection compared with adults?

A: There have been very few reports of the clinical outcomes for children with COVID-19 to date. Limited reports from China suggest that children with confirmed COVID-19 may present with mild symptoms and though severe complications (acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock) have been reported, they appear to be uncommon. However, as with other respiratory illnesses, certain populations of children may be at increased risk of severe infection, such as children with underlying health conditions.

But let's continue to panic.

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Apperently, you ain't real good at math. Or maybe you and the people you know made up for the hundreds of people I know that didn't have it.

So, genius, how many people do you know had H1N1? Just the facts, please.

Sounds like the title to a Pornhub video.

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70% infection rate expected - from the CDC.

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Link?

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I am sure that I heard that number from one of the recent press conferences with Pence and the CDC

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Then it should be easy to find

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Here is a link to what a Harvard epidemiologist had to say -

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He seems to have great credentials so no reason to claim the CDC said it or not post that he said 40-70, that’s scary enough.

I’d imagine such predictions are all over the map.

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Even with the same death rate as the flu, there are 230,000 Americans that will die from this.

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According to the WHO China peaked with about 80,000 cases and now fewer new cases are bieng reported daily, a little over 3000 have died, 28,000 are still receiving treatment. That the U.S. fatality rate will be worse than China proportional to their population is ridiculous.

Fake news

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" I think the first honest numbers will come out of Italy"
The numbers might be honest, but not an example of what will happen in the U.S..

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Numbers that don't agree with what I want to push are not "honest".