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Excellent article about Covid-19; Excellent Grand Rounds from UCSF on Covid-19
March 16, 2020 at
10:12 PM
https://arstechnica.com/science/2...xqLHDY2oBs
This answers a lot of the usual questions without any political noise.
Stay healthy, my friends.
And if you haven't gotten a flu shot yet, for goodness sake do it today!
Here's an excellent Grand Rounds discussing Covid-19 from UCSF
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UafK-4vMr8M
This answers a lot of the usual questions without any political noise.
Stay healthy, my friends.
And if you haven't gotten a flu shot yet, for goodness sake do it today!
Here's an excellent Grand Rounds discussing Covid-19 from UCSF
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UafK-4vMr8M
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This answers a lot of the usual questions without any political noise.
Stay healthy, my friends.
And if you haven't gotten a flu shot yet, for goodness sake do it today!
I use that to point out how there are lots of idiots in this world.
The flu kills 40k people a year, on average. It's been as high as 80k in the past few seasons. 90% of those it kills are 65+. Covid has killed around 70 people in the US so far. It has no vaccine, people freak out and buy up all the toilet paper in the supermarket. You're FAR FAR FAR more likely to be affected by the flu, yet there are many people that refuse to get the flu vaccine, and it can be had FOR FREE.
If you can keep from getting the flu, you can avoid the hospital and save space for Coronavirus patients as well as save your own health.
The flu is something we actually can fight pretty effectively.
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"Don't wear a mask when your Healthy?!?"
Fools!! A mask won't save you AFTER infection!!
Fact: on another virus,
"The mean penetrations of viable MS2 through the N95 and P100 FFRs/cartridges were typically less than 2 and 0.03%, respectively, under all flow conditions."
Masks work like social distancing!!
Just make sure it's N/P 95 or 100!
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9/11 kills less than 3,000 in a few locations and everyone panics for years.
Corona kills more than 7,000 and ars assumes you shouldn't panic??
A pandemic says WHO.
Where stock markets crash like the Depression?
Where entire cities, states, countries shut down inbound travelers?
Cruise ships, airlines, travel get cancelled?
Restaurants, gyms, bars, etc all forced to close?
All military personnel prevented from traveling out of state?
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Even Trump does a 180 on the matter?!
F$ dumb to believe ARS when the worldwide response is MANY TIMES more severe than 9/11.
Seriously, a social, economic, health distaster right now and no known end in sight.
Baby Ebola had landed and the world is gonna hurt.
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As for death rates and numbers vs other things, like even eating a burger = heart attack, that's a while nother debate why people focus on certain things that kill them and not others.
Corona is bad enough that if the grandfather's infected, 1 in 6 chance of dying.
"Don't wear a mask when your Healthy?!?"
Fools!! A mask won't save you AFTER infection!!
Fact: on another virus,
"The mean penetrations of viable MS2 through the N95 and P100 FFRs/cartridges were typically less than 2 and 0.03%, respectively, under all flow conditions."
Masks work like social distancing!!
Just make sure it's N/P 95 or 100!
....
9/11 kills less than 3,000 in a few locations and everyone panics for years.
Corona kills more than 7,000 and ars assumes you shouldn't panic??
A pandemic says WHO.
Where stock markets crash like the Depression?
Where entire cities, states, countries shut down inbound travelers?
Cruise ships, airlines, travel get cancelled?
Restaurants, gyms, bars, etc all forced to close?
All military personnel prevented from traveling out of state?
...
...
Even Trump does a 180 on the matter?!
F$ dumb to believe ARS when the worldwide response is MANY TIMES more severe than 9/11.
Seriously, a social, economic, health distaster right now and no known end in sight.
Baby Ebola had landed and the world is gonna hurt.
...
As for death rates and numbers vs other things, like even eating a burger = heart attack, that's a while nother debate why people focus on certain things that kill them and not others.
Corona is bad enough that if the grandfather's infected, 1 in 6 chance of dying.
If you look across the swath of non-deal forums here there are some posters where you can get a sense of their general sentiment. This guy is clearly in full on panic mode.
Meanwhile in other news:
Around 6 out of 7 with coronavirus may be undetected, study finds [foxnews.com]
Basically, there are a huge number of people that are infected but asymptomatic or so unsymptomatic they wouldn't know the difference. This should make sense to anyone that has been following this thing. Of course this also implies the CFR is a LOT lower than is reported. Of course the article doesn't go that far, but I've noticed that most reputable cites don't give a CFR even if it's very easy to calculate a rudimentary one, even Johns Hopkins does not. That has to be on purpose.
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1240323780708388875?s=06
ALL US businesses are now under "military"-like control.
All production can be diverted by the US government to fight the corona.
CHILL?????
Nothing like this has EVER been done since World War II!!!!!!!!!
Don't be foolish and don't think this is not a critical situation!! Stock up now!!!
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-virus-plan-anticipates-18-month-pandemic-and-widespread-shortages/ar-BB11ktjA?li=BBnb7Kz
The REALITY the US government is planning and preparing for.
Seriously.
Anyone who still doesn't see the pandemic crisis:
ALL OF EU SHUT DOWN
ALL OF China, Israel, Australia, ETC shut down.
Big cities like SF, LA shut down.
ALL military personnel prevented from out of state travel.
ALL US businesses now under government control.
Graduation and schools cancelled?
Etc...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/13/21178289/confirmed-coronavirus-cases-us-countries-italy-iran-singapore-hong-kong
Exponential growth in infected, importantly DEATHS!
100 dead today, 200 in 2-3 days, 400 in 4, 800 in 6....
Really?
Still not highly worried, stocking up, and wearing a mask out??
Preparing now is not panicing - that would be when the supply chain fails and food deliveries simply stop for weeks/months.
Just think.
If 1% of long haul truckers get sick, 350 million Americans, 3.5 million won't get any food or supplies delivered. This isn't a job you suddenly find anyone, drop in a truck and say Drive!
Air and ship transport has already been disrupted, with increasingly difficult import of critical pharmaceuticals and materials. How much of the US drug supply is manufactured overseas?
Right.
Don't be foolish and be blind.
Corona has already disrupted far more than the superficial supermarket panic buying, reaching deep into the unseen, critical supply chain system.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c...UJ0
Covid has a high mortality rate compared to season flu, and even spanish flu, and there is no vaccine.
https://fivethirtyeight