Fact of the matter is there are way more mild cases than anyone even knows which makes the death rate much less than originally anticipated. China was caught off guard and has one of the worst ICU beds per capita than most everyone. The US is more prepared than most if not all.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-countries-with-the-most-critical-care-beds-per-capita-infographic/#3cf0c7af7f86Look at Germany’s death rate who has the second best ICU beds after the US. They currently have 33,416 cases (grossly underestimated) and only 159 deaths = .00475 and yes it’s the sick and the old who unfortunately succumb.
https://ncov2019.live/and
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/03/23/germany-an-outlier-with-very-low-coronavirus-case-fatality-rate-and-minimal-number-of-patients-in-critical-condition/#1cfdcfd23a0eFunny how there are roughly
450,000 flu related deaths each year (that’s conservative) and we haven’t heard a word about it for all these years.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)33293-2/fulltextDo we all realize that there are over 150,000 deaths every single day in the world? Guess what? There are 380,000 births per day - unsustainable.
https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
When you look at people who’ve gone through this that are relatively healthy, the symptoms are so mild that they don’t even bother to get tested. Look at Tom Hanks, had the Blahs for a few days and completely better now. Look at Rudy Gobert, said he lost his sense of smell 10 days into it and that’s it. There’s thousands if not hundreds of thousands more. The flu is never fun but that’s what it is - with a slightly higher death rate and/or some extra ability to take hold in the sick and old. There’s something that’s driven this world for millions of years and its called “the survival of the fittestâ€. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a compassionate human being and have parents that are in their 80’s. But they’ve lived a healthy life and during this pandemic or dempanic they’re gladly staying at home because they’re high risk. Does that mean everyone else has to? Most people don't want to die or see their loved ones go but it's going to happen and yes it's painful.
If our government is going to force it’s will on the people, why don’t they permanently ban all fast food restaurants, smoking, drinking, etc… There would be much less people in the position of having Diabetes, Heart Disease and the like and they would be able to power through this.
Funny how 1.7 million new cases of a virus called HIV with close to
750,000 deaths last year alone and 34 million still walking around with it and not a peep about it since the 90s. My kids say they were told about it in first year of sex ed 3 years ago but nothing since…
https://www.who.int/gho/hiv/epidemic_status/deaths/en/Funny how the media became ultra focused on this pandemic after Feb 5th and beat everyone into a panic. What happened on Feb 5th ? Hmmm
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-the-final-day-of-trumps-impeachment-trial-feb-5Here's Feb 6th
https://theweek.com/10things/894090/10-things-need-know-today-february-6-2020 - Note number 3
Then 10 days later
https://theweek.com/10things/896322/10-things-need-know-today-february-16-2020
I'm off to hunt for TP. Or maybe I'll just take a shower after my deuce since I'm locked at home with no money anyway. No TP needed -Problem solved!