This is bonkers.
Never seen anything like it.
Saw an interview with a guy in Italy who said things weren't even like this in Europe at the start of WW2.
And you know, I have that same eerie feeling that I had driving home from work on 9/11. Like there is something very serious happening and we're just starting to see the fallout from it.
This is a pretty good rundown I saw posted about the Coronavirus and what it's all about, how it's NOT the same as the flu, how it started...and why there is cause for concern. Not panic, but concern. And why the current measures being taken are necessary. I think this is pretty accurate. If there is any inaccuracies, let me know.
Johns Hopkins University has a mobile friendly online tracker:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
(the worldwide death total has gone up 500-ish just today...now stands at 7,113 as I type this)
Also heard some predicted numbers that 30-60% of people in the US will get the virus. I think that is worst case scenario though.
The efforts currently underway are an attempt to stop the spread and lower the curve, and to get that number down to 30%.
This is preventative. I know that we only have 4287 cases in the US as I type this, but it's going up and up by the hour. Saw someone complaining about how their shutting down the country for something that is only affecting 3k people. Well, it's gone up 1k since then and will likely only get exponentially worse.
If 30% of the US gets it, and with a 1% death rate, that would mean about 1 million people would die.
If 60% of the US gets it, and with a 1% death rate, that would mean 2 million people would die.
I think those numbers are over the course of 2-3 years...but I've also heard lower projections where they say worst case is much lower, probably in the hundreds of thousands..and with a 1% death rate, that's 3k people. A pretty huge gap there...so we'll see.
Let's hope it doesn't get anywhere near the high estimates.
Of course, I also read that 70% of Germany's population could get it. So whatever.
Also...
It's not the same Coronavirus you see listed on Lysol bottles. It's a different strain.
I saw a bunch of people wonder why the experts are saying this is a new virus when Lysol lists it as one of the things Lysol kills.
I guess we're lucky in a way that this isn't a much more serious virus in terms of transmissibility like the Spanish Flu (infected 500 million people, 1/3 of the earth's population at the time (1919)) and more deadly like Ebola (death rate of up to 90%). Kinda scary to think that kind of thing could very well happen some day and without a vaccine for a new disease...we'd be in trouble. That would be End of Days shit.
Anyway... wash your hands...be smart...be safe everyone.
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I'm a government employee so we were the last to shutter: starting tomorrow.
Yea, it's just weird and eerie. No traffic, parking lots empty, nobody out and about... weird.
Most dangerous 2 things about this virus is that, unlike SARS and H1N1 it appears to thrive in the human body, and two: you can carry it and transmit it for 7+ days when you're asymptomatic and have no idea you're even carrying it. I know with SARS it struck so soon by the time you had it you KNEW you had it. This is way different.
I think it'll ultimately settle into human populations as the "new" flu and it won't be until widespread vaccinations are implemented that it'll truly "stop." We'll get back to normal after that with periodic spikes. But I think it's here to stay.
Yea, it's just weird and eerie. No traffic, parking lots empty, nobody out and about... weird.
Most dangerous 2 things about this virus is that, unlike SARS and H1N1 it appears to thrive in the human body, and two: you can carry it and transmit it for 7+ days when you're asymptomatic and have no idea you're even carrying it. I know with SARS it struck so soon by the time you had it you KNEW you had it. This is way different.
I think it'll ultimately settle into human populations as the "new" flu and it won't be until widespread vaccinations are implemented that it'll truly "stop." We'll get back to normal after that with periodic spikes. But I think it's here to stay.
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This working from home business sucks. I'm sure it's great for some people, but in my line of work it's not very conducive to teaching teenagers difficult concepts.
To complicate matters, I'm both teaching my students and working with my older son on his online learning which is being assigned through about a half dozen different platforms at the same time, and trying to get my younger son who's in special services to adjust to life without the services he depends on. Not helping is the soon-to-be (hopefully) ex who would rather sit around and play video games and decided that since the going is getting tough she was just going to take an overnight trip to Atlantic City.
To complicate matters, I'm both teaching my students and working with my older son on his online learning which is being assigned through about a half dozen different platforms at the same time, and trying to get my younger son who's in special services to adjust to life without the services he depends on. Not helping is the soon-to-be (hopefully) ex who would rather sit around and play video games and decided that since the going is getting tough she was just going to take an overnight trip to Atlantic City.
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Just received word that a former colleague died a few days ago from the virus. It doesn't really hit home until it hits home, I guess.
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Man, that sucks.glen a richter wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 8:03 pmJust received word that a former colleague died a few days ago from the virus. It doesn't really hit home until it hits home, I guess.
I haven't known anyone personally that has died from it yet. But I'm sure that will change eventually.
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I’ve spent the last day trying to shoot down rumors that I died. Someone I used to work with said they heard I died, word spread like wildfire and I had people calling to see if I was alive. I was taking care of my son who wasn’t feeling well so I sent a text back when I missed a call saying I’d call back in a while. Immediately I got a text back: no it’s an emergency call now, they said you died.
I did get the unexpected opportunity to quote Mark Twain though, regarding the rumors of my death being greatly exaggerated.
I did get the unexpected opportunity to quote Mark Twain though, regarding the rumors of my death being greatly exaggerated.
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That's insane.glen a richter wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:27 amI’ve spent the last day trying to shoot down rumors that I died. Someone I used to work with said they heard I died, word spread like wildfire and I had people calling to see if I was alive. I was taking care of my son who wasn’t feeling well so I sent a text back when I missed a call saying I’d call back in a while. Immediately I got a text back: no it’s an emergency call now, they said you died.
I did get the unexpected opportunity to quote Mark Twain though, regarding the rumors of my death being greatly exaggerated.
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