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https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-mistakes-that-turned-new-york-into-an-epicenter-of-the-coronavirus-epidemic-090040375.html
250 000-500 000 die from the flu every year. These numbers don t say much by themselves.
If we stay on the current average of 5,000 deaths every 2 days = 912,500 deaths in a year from coronavirus.
At this current rate we are talking millions by the end of the year. What else is there to say...
Talk to Warren Zevon about it. http://www.alearned.com/terminal-cancer/ In the fall of 2002, upon learning he had terminal cancer, Warren was quoted as saying "I just want to live long enough to see the next James Bond movie." (He did -- "Die Another Day.")
Yes... and wait for Africa... we are going to suffer the biggest global crisis since WWII and for a lot of people well, it’s just a flu.
It would be nice to think that after this, the public will apprecaite NHS frontline staff, but I don't see it happening.
Jesus!
Well obviously the deaths numbers will be the last to slow down. Lombardy alone has 5400 casualties!
Good news in Lombardy is that numbers of hospitalizations and IC are gradually slowing down. Like today we have 200 hospitalized patients less than yesterday...
This video is an excerpt from an Italian TV show from 2015. It tells a story about Chinese scientists doing experiments and possibly creating a new form of virus by combining an existing SARS virus and a protein taken from a bat.
The scientists said that this is not COVID 19, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Phew! That's a relief then.
Panic over.
I remember reading that story back in 2012! IIRC it was from a web article stating that "Bond will outlive us all!" Sadly Zevon died in 2003.
Interestingly, here in New York City, they actually are building makeshift morgues in anticipation of the expected increase in deaths over the next few weeks.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/makeshift-morgues-coronavirus-new-york/index.html
When people go to a hospital, they are diagnosed (but not post-mortem). If Covid-19 is a factor, they will be counted a Sars-CoV2 victims. If they have been tested positive and have another possibly deadly disease and die suddenly while quarantined at home, there is good reason not to count them as Covid-19 victims, since if they had had severe symptoms, they would have been taken to the hospital rather than left in home quarantine. I think the number of those latter cases is statistically insignificant.
That being said, it is no reason to relax. The same virologists and epidemiologists insist that the worst is yet to come, and the total mortality will still go up considerably, though maybe not up to present Italian levels. A real comparison will only be possible once the real number of people infected has been determined. Maybe the actual infections in Italy amount to ten times the known cases so far (since many infected have no symptoms or none anyone worries about), and suddenly the real mortality rate is "only" one per cent and not ten. It's bad either way, but may be an explanation while the statistics between the countries differ so wildly.
He also expressed it this way.
Big American cruise ship the Holland America stuck at sea I wonder how many more cruise ships are stuck out there?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2927031001
Over 2,000 confirmed cases here. 50% of them in the capital. Almost 400 of the cases are healthcare workers.
"The Matrix Effect" is more likely to be true for the economic situation than for the medical situation. Money is only valuable because we tell ourselves, and each other, that these colorful little pieces of paper have value. If we stop believing that they have any value, they will lose their value. Simple as that.
Not so for the medical situation. If you get sick, you feel it. Can't tell yourself otherwise. When you die, brother, you're dead. SO: the Matrix Effect is more meaningful economically than medically. We can all stop worrying about the collapse of the world economy, and pay more attention to the medical professionals.
@chrisisall by non-political we mean, that this thread will not become a Trump or Boris bashing thread due to their actions. Or digress into a political discussion away from the Covid-19 crisis.
Mistakes will be made, thousands of people are advising and updating our world leaders at this unprecedented time. But we will overcome this.
Hilarious. I had no idea. I was trying to be ironic, of course. If I'm gone, I can't be angry about it. In any case, I have no plans. LOL