Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[hysop]

if NOTHING had ever been, our death toll would be between 1 million and 1.2 million (Dr. Fauci on 3/21) I think alot of people want to know what it would be like had we done no interventions at all. It was also described as walking down the street and the dead are all over the place.

I saw in a video that that same doctor published in a scholarly article that this virus was nothing but a flu. I’ll look and see if I can find the article. Hold on

 

[seminolewind]

That is in a best case scenario, sadly we are being lied to.

How would anyone know they are being lied to when all these future numbers are not known as we haven't lived thru this before. scientists can only offer hypotheses because they all don't know so they give answers based on what the graph is doing now . Noone knows for sure.

 

[hysop]

Okay I found it. Now I’m by no means educated in reading these fancy articles, so here’s part of it along with the link, for those smarty pants out there, what does that mean?

“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

 

[FortCluck]

How would anyone know they are being lied to when all these future numbers are not known as we haven't lived thru this before. scientists can only offer hypotheses because they all don't know so they give answers based on what the graph is doing now . Noone knows for sure.

It's best to call someone a liar then actually see what the situation is... This virus is what it is. We have never dealt with it before so we cannot have exact numbers on what will happen. We have to wait it out and see and there's nothing else we can do.

 

[Pasha838]

Here possesion of marijuana is punishable by upto an year of prison, cultivation is 10 years of prison and trading of marijuana gets you 30 years of prison. Alcohol consumption in Bihar may get you upto ten years of prison, but thankfully police is extremely corrupt in Bihar and laws are rarely enforced, specially if you can bribe the police. A chicken or a dozen of eggs can take care of the police.

Alcohol is legal here, although there is a restriction - shops are forbidden to sell it in the evening, because drunk people can make noise and interfere with the rest of the sleep. And for the sale of alcohol you need some kind of expensive license, so many stores just did not buy it and, accordingly, they do not have alcohol. In general, alcohol consumption in Russia did not lead to anything good, statistics say that if a person drinks often, he is guaranteed to die at about the age of 40. Therefore, in our family, alcohol is not accepted. Those who do not drink alcohol do not live long, on the contrary, my grandfather died at 98 years old.
I once talked with two women who, in their youth, were very fond of drinking and parties, they later gave birth to demented children. Therefore, I have a very negative attitude towards such substances...

 

[Pasha838]

Good for you! You sound really self-sustaining there. Stay well!

When the summer will begin i will walk, but it will be in the forest and near of the forest, the people don`t walk there, there will be only me and my goats ) I hope i will not meet there any illness ))
I don’t like one thing - this spring I wanted to go buy young sheeps and ram, and now because of this virus I probably won’t go anywhere. True, I have goats and sometimes I take one goat for meat, but I wanted to eat lamb too...
I hope this situation will end someday.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

virus was nothing but a flu.

Please do not bother posting the video, it is not true and if people do not take this seriously even more people will die.

 

[hysop]

Please do not bother posting the video, it is not true and if people do not take this seriously even more people will die.

I’m posting the article not the video. I don’t bother with videos because anyone can say anything in a video. But if I can find the information they present such as an article by that doctor then I will share it if people care to read it.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Hey! Actions -- or inaction in this case -- have consequences.

It is hard for many to realize that their actions, and inactions contributed to the situation we are in now. People thought that he who shall not be named was a good choice and the current situation proves beyond all doubt that was a mistake. So instead of taking responsibility many are just doubling down.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

I’m posting the article

Why? Why would you want to spread misinformation?