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"I don't care about coronavirus because I'm young and healthy"
Doctor sounds off about COVID-19
Posted 4 years ago by boyt in category: important
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Mark (guest) - 4 years ago [ Reply ]
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This was already well underway when you were all watching it in China. It didn't spread all over the US in a couple weeks. They started testing a couple weeks ago and found it all over. Don't think I don't get it. We are well over duo for a Spanish flu but this is no Spanish flu.

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Jens Schneider (guest) - 4 years ago [ Reply ]
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People celebrating the Springbreak nowadays, sitting together at a big barbeque or going on one of those stupid Corona Parties locked down after the first minute of this vid. Don`t get me wrong, i am 100% with you, but i suppose they just understand a `GET THE HELL BACK HOME; YOU MAY KILL SOMEBODY!`

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Mark (guest) - 4 years ago [ Reply ]
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Ever gone to work with the flu? Flu has killed 20k in the US since September. 80k in 2017-18. In bad years its 7 to 8k a month just in the US. Why did it take this one for people to now care?

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heftygrain - 4 years ago
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  Try rewatching the video, Mark. It's all in there... 
Noemoc - 4 years ago
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  One more time. Yes, many more people this year have died of Influenza. And car accidents. And falls. The point is that if the mortality rate from COVID-19 really is 2-3% (which maybe it isn't, but maybe it is) and we do not slow it down or stop it, health care resources will be overwhelmed and millions will die. The incidence rate in the US is now higher than the worst day in China's outbreak (ignoring the Feb 12 reporting anomaly). We are not in control of the situation and if it remains uncontrolled the danger is real. It's too late to significantly curb influenza (except by vaccination--please get vaccinated), but it (maybe) isn't too late to curb COVID-19, or at least slow its spread until a vaccine is available or until health care resources have ramped up to respond to the spike in demand.  
DaveJoyce - 4 years ago
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  The problem is we have no idea what the death rate is because the data we’re relying on is incomplete.  
Noemoc - 4 years ago
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  I agree with you Dave. So far, even in countries where lots of testing is occurring (I'm thinking of South Korea in particular), the mortality rate has still been much higher than influenza (0.7% in the case of South Korea). So I think being very careful until we learn more is the appropriate way forward. There are other strategies such as protecting the most vulnerable populations while allowing low risk populations to get infected, thus creating a herd immunity protection for those vulnerable populations. That is worth thinking about too, although I have heard enough anecdotes of 20, 30 and 40 year olds on ventilators to make me nervous. So aside from berating reporters and talking about his "hunches" with regards to the development of potential therapeutics, and sometimes falling back into being unnecessarily political (I, too, reside in MIchigan and I think our governor is doing a fine job), I would say your man President Trump is presently striking the right tone and taking the right approach. That from someone who didn't, and never would nor ever will, vote for the man. 
DaveJoyce - 4 years ago
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  Oh cool. Greetings fellow Michigander :) 

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