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Maybe I'm missing something but I think this Corona Virus thing is WAYYYYYYYY overblown. It seems like it is nothing more than a mild strain of flu that it is less contagious than measles or mumps and the mortality is equal or less than the average flu that goes around every year. The numbers infected are shall we say less than impressive......I mean this ain't something that two days after you catch it you bleed out through your eyes and die. From what I've read, I'd rather catch Corona than some of the more virulent strains of flu
One good thing however is that since China shut down everythjng poloution has niticably improved :rolleyes:
 
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I don't think you are missing anything, so I tend to agree with you.
Only good thing is the publicity might get people to use a few precautions.
Like staying home when they are sick, or at least wearing a mask if they
go out. One time I was on vacation in Hawaii and a guy sneezed right in
my face. Sure enough I got sick and ruined the rest of my vacation.
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
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It seems like it is nothing more than a mild strain of flu that it is less contagious than measles or mumps and the mortality is equal or less than the average flu that goes around every year.
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I don't think the community health folks know that for sure yet and they don't want to get caught behind the curve where they can't contain/manage the spread of the virus if it is something worse. Hopefully it's nothing. News media and politicians definitely over hyping it.
 
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For a little perspective, the latest estimates I've seen of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality rate is 2-3%. The Spanish flu of 1918 had a mortality rate of around 2%.

Mortality rates for flu in general are typically less than 1%.
 
I hope you're right and that the corona virus turns out to be less than feared. But those who say it's "no worse than the flu" don't know what they are taking about, or at least don't know history. The flu pandemic of 1918 accounted for over 50 million dead worldwide. Half of all Americans came down with it, and 675,000 died. When something new pops up for which there is no pre-existing immunity all bets are off, and it's a fool who doesn't take every precaution before we know for sure what we're dealing with.
 
Pisgah said:
I hope you're right and that the corona virus turns out to be less than feared. But those who say it's "no worse than the flu" don't know what they are taking about, or at least don't know history. The flu pandemic of 1918 accounted for over 50 million dead worldwide. Half of all Americans came down with it, and 675,000 died. When something new pops up for which there is no pre-existing immunity all bets are off, and it's a fool who doesn't take every precaution before we know for sure what we're dealing with.
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The fear-mongering media always trots that one out when they're whipping up a frenzy about the latest "potential pandemic".
On the other hand, that was over 100 years ago - when we hardly knew what a virus was, much less how they behave, how to fight them, etc.
While it is true this one may be as bad of a bug as the Spanish flu, this isn't 1918.
Does ANY communicable disease kill as high a percentage of people today as it did in 1918?
 
BC38 said:
The fear-mongering media always trots that one out when they're whipping up a frenzy about the latest "potential pandemic".
On the other hand, that was over 100 years ago - when we hardly knew what a virus was, much less how they behave, how to fight them, etc.
While it is true this one may be as bad of a bug as the Spanish flu, this isn't 1918.
Does ANY communicable disease kill as high a percentage of people today as it did in 1918?
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Maybe not right now, but that can change. Did anything before 1918 kill as many? A few, yes, like bubonic plague -- and medicine in 1918 was far ahead of medicine in the Middle Ages. Right now, Trump is saying that a vaccine is in the immediate offing, but in fact it will take a minimum of 8 to 9 months before any vaccine will be ready for use -- IF they can find one. And even flu vaccines, a known and common technology, are often off the mark since the virus mutates so rapidly. Today, there are 5 cases of corona virus in California of unknown origin -- people with no known contact with anyone who's been to the areas of infection. Given the rapidity of its spread -- and remember, we don't even know yet HOW it is spread -- it could be thousands within weeks. Again, we just don't know, and if we're going to err I say do it on the side of caution.
 
Here's an article by a guy in his late 60s who has the virus:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/28/i-have-coronavirus-so-far-it-isnt-that-bad/

I think as to whether it is worse than the flu, depends on how you define "worse." It seems to be more contagious and have a higher mortality rate for those who catch it. Whether it will kill more people than the flu does annually remains to be seen.

It's scarier than the flu because less is known about it.
 
ContinentalOp said:
For a little perspective, the latest estimates I've seen of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality rate is 2-3%. The Spanish flu of 1918 had a mortality rate of around 2%.

Mortality rates for flu in general are typically less than 1%.
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Actually, ordinary flu mortality is more like .1 to .2%. That does make the coronavirus at 1 to 2% about ten times as lethal as the regular flu, but these are still very small numbers.

And the trouble in the markets which some are at a loss to understand has nothing to do with China or the lethality of the virus, but simply the unavoidable economic impact of a lot of people, workers and shoppers, getting sick at the same time.

That's why blaming things on the media won't work for long if the virus spreads.

We are a demand-driven economy, and if large numbers of people don't work and shop and buy because they are home sick, business will suffer, earnings will drop, and investors will lose money.

That's the primary danger of a pandemic, not some Black Death scenario.
 
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. . . Right now, Trump is saying that a vaccine is in the immediate offing, but in fact it will take a minimum of 8 to 9 months before any vaccine will be ready for use -- IF they can find one.
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Your synopsis of the time to get a vaccine developed is not indeed a fact. The president is correct that a potential vaccine could very well be a near offing. There have been several reports that a lab in Israel was already working on a vaccine, quite by coincidence. Seems for political reasons the main stream media is not pursuing these reports.

So, although they are not yet prepared to provide a timeline of when a vaccine will be ready, it is not a fact that it will be a minimum of 8 to 9 months.
 
My concern is in what communist China has admitted to doing in an attempt to control the spread. You can bet that what they are actually doing is many times worse than what they are publicly admitting to. Quarantining cities containing millions of people is not to be taken lightly.
 
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