Community Chat

[Sushismom]

As I've posted before, there's a 3.4% chance of dying from novel corornavirus. Even less when those who had coronavirus but were NOT diagnosed are included. In 2009, with the swine flu pandemic, you had about 2.2% chance of dying.

In other words, you have a 96.6% (or more) of living having been diagnosed with coronavirus.

[CrazyDaisy]

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@Sushismom wrote:

As I've posted before, there's a 3.4% chance of dying from novel corornavirus. Even less when those who had coronavirus but were NOT diagnosed are included. 

In other words, you have a 96.6% (or more) of living.

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My guess the recovery rate is much higher.  The symptoms mimic the flu.  The virus has been in the population for months.  How many people figured they just had the flu, recovered and moved on never knowing which virus they had.

[Porcelain]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@Porcelain wrote:

I think this is a chance for those of us who grew up as only children and know how to entertain ourselves to truly shine.

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This trended on Twitter this weekend.  Those of us who are GenXers aka latchkey kids are apparently the only ones who are going to come out of self isolation just fine.  Been there done it every day of our childhoods.  

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Me and my Breyer horse models will be JUST FINE!

[GenXmuse]

I think the panic is more dangerous than the virus but it's an unknown entity unlike the flu or H1N1 so caution makes sense. 

[denisemb]

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@Porcelain wrote:

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Me and my Breyer horse models will be JUST FINE!

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Oh, you HAD to say the word "Breyer", did you?  (pretty horses)

(Having to ration my Breyer's Creamcicle ice cream these days).  LOLOL

[SeaMaiden]

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

I am taken is serious as any contagious disease but no plot involved.  The only thing I hate seeing is a man yesterday adding a dozen 24oz. size Ranch Style Beans to his loaded down cart at Walmart Supercenter.  If needs to prepare that way then that was his choice, but still all those extra large cans of beans?  Serious yes, but not WWIII.

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@beckyb1012   Bet there's  a lot of  smelly gas in that household😄

[Laura14]

@Porcelain   🤣🤣🤣🤣. I got my cassettes and cassette player primed and ready.  Gonna party through this quarantine like it's 1999.  

[Foxxee]

I do think the media has an agenda, the cause of the panicking in the U.S.  They will use anything if they think it will accomplish their goal.

CV-19 could be very serious if drastic steps hadn't been and aren't being taken.  Using suggested precautions, washing hands, using sanitizers and masks are not a guarantee. 

The best way is to keep people away from each other, close our borders and don't permit those from other countries coming here.  Some don't like that, but it's just common sense.  

If something more serious occurs in the future, if people don't comply, it will have to be forced to save lives.

[chiclets]

Covid-19 should be taken as very serious.

You can only do so much and hope for the best by taking precautions but even then you can get it.

People are dying, and if this is a plot it is a good death plot that is working.

Panic kills too.

[BlueFinch]

Yeah, some of the conspiracy theories originate for entertainment value, or just to shake people up, but it's fueled by those who want to believe. 

it's all fun and games for some people, until they, or someone they care about winds up on a ventilator.  Then it becomes real.  

Not being prepared is the 'sinister' game some are playing, which increases risk for all of us.