(03-10-2020 03:33 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-10-2020 03:30 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-10-2020 03:02 PM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(03-10-2020 02:01 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(03-10-2020 11:27 AM)tigergreen Wrote:  By saying it's getting blown out of proportion, then talking about older people dying from it - the seemingly crazy precautions being taken are being done in order to protect those people, not because EVERYONE is going to get sick and/or die from it.

It's being blown out of proportion. 25 lives lost.. This year alone in Chicago we lost 78 people to gun violence.

People who are at high risk:
Early information out of China, where COVID-19 first started, shows that some people are at higher risk of getting very sick from this illness. This includes:

Older adults

People who have serious chronic medical conditions like:
Heart disease
Diabetes
Lung disease
If a COVID-19 outbreak happens in your community, it could last for a long time. (An outbreak is when a large number of people suddenly get sick.) Depending on how severe the outbreak is, public health officials may recommend community actions to reduce people’s risk of being exposed to COVID-19. These actions can slow the spread and reduce the impact of disease.

If you are at higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19 because of your age or because you have a serious long-term health problem, it is extra important for you to take actions to reduce your risk of getting sick with the disease.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco...tions.html

It's not new. It's been around. It's a respiratory problem.

It IS new; it's a novel virus. Respiratory viruses have been around, but this strain has not.

Comparing a pandemic to the gun problem in this country is like comparing apples and cotton balls. I could only wish we were as proactive with the gun issue as this, but that's a whole other ball of wax.

Bottom line, we have a certain amount of resources to treat the older/compromised people who have this virus, and the disease is spreading quickly. We need to try to slow it down as much as possible so that new cases can be dealt with in our current capacities.

If this all fizzles out, then thank public health officials & their efforts, don't say it was blown out of proportion.

Agree. The 1918 Pandemic was "just the flu"....but it was a new version. Thats what we have here. I suggest the skeptics scan the web for people in the medical community in Italy. The flu was in Italy 2 months ago. Their hospital were not being overrun with patents 2 months ago. This is not Ebola---but its also not something we can just shrug of because its "just the flu". If you dont take proper steps to prevent massive spread---you'll end up like Wuhon and Italy.

The 1918 pandemic was just the flu. There was also a World War going on along with undernourishment, fatigue, and poor environmental conditions, which led to the high death rate. The virus itself wasn't the main problem.

It was quite obviously a different version of the flu. A war, malnutrition, fatigue, and poor environmental conditions were all factors that also existed in the 1915, 1916, and 1917 versions of the flu---but 50 million people didnt die in any of those years. The 1918 Pandemic Flu was different because the flu was different. That said---I suspect a bunch of those 1918 victims could have been saved if they had modern ventilators in 1918. What Im gathering now in Italy is they dont have enough ICU beds for the demand. In Italy, doctors are literally having to decide who lives and who dies. I suspect the same thing happened in Wuhon.

Understand---I think most people will be fine. But best I can tell, we would have an issue if this were to spread to the general population like the flu because numbers would simply overwhelm the health care systems (even a modern western healthcare system). I assume thats why we see health officials willing to make a real effort to contain this virus before it can start infecting the US population with big numbers. I dont think we should be scaring people to death---but I do think we should be willing to make some sacrifices so we DONT have to shut everything down like Italy and China had to do in order to get the infection rate under control.