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We just got our first know case here in Idaho as of yesterday.Lady that got it in her 50's and has had it a couple weeks. Mild to moderate flu-like symptoms. THATS IT!!! That is what you are going to see in 98% of these cases. Stop freaking out people!!! It IS the flu. People are going to get sick. VERY few are going to die! Practice good hygiene and maybe hunker down if you can. If you can't try to at least keep you distance. Buy TP if you want- you'll need it someday anyway. Buy some extra food- you'll eat it anyway! Have some extra supplies- you should have had them anyway! Go in public if you want. Carry some sanitizer if you want. Be careful you will, most likely, be fine. STOP THE MADNESS though. That FEAR is whats going to kill you not this Virus! IF its your time its your time nothing you can do about that! My heart is right with my Lord. Im not frightened ONE bit!!! Just my 2c!
Seems like every 10 pages someone new enters into this thing. Please see my post on page 1, it is the very first post. Please read the Academics section.
Comparing it to the flu at this point in time is naive. The flu has had an entire season to amass deaths. Do you really think that nCov would have amassed just as many in the two-ish months that it has been here? No, of course not. And I see that you're not taking a case study of 1 month of flu vs 1 month of nCov in order to draw a more direct comparison. No, you're looking at months of flu vs two months of nCov. (BTW, even the 1:1 month comparison isn't true as there existed many more patients with flu at the start than with nCov in the USA) What you are missing is that the flu usually kills ~0.1% while nCov is up near ~3-4%. Even at 2%, it's over 10x more lethal. Put it this way, in 1000 patients, 1 will die of flue. of the same 1000 with nCov, 100-200 may need hospitalization, 10-20 ICU care, and ~20-40 die.
Do I have your attention?
And you're not taking into account the average 10 days it takes between newly infected populations to show up. That means 10 days between patient 1 and patient 2, 10 more to get to patients 4, 10 more to 8, and so on and on. Does it make sense yet that these things take time? Pop quiz: How long do we expect it to take to reach 100,000 cases?
The average hospital stay for those that need it is 2-4 weeks. Those are big numbers once the total infected reaches the tipping point. Case in point: Italy.
Better case in point: South Korea. Know why they are so darn under control with this? Because their citizens take quarantines seriously - they don't think, "Ah, I feel fine, going to the movies." They take it seriously! And they've got the most in control process seen so far along with the lowest hospitalization and death rate.
You may be ready to meet your maker and good for you if you are. But don't require others to share your outlook on life.
Everyone agrees with you on the stupid panic buying and TP hoarding. That's not what is happening here.