From automotive accidents in 2018 but most everyone of age drives. Most follow safety procedures and guidelines and drive each day without serious incident. This may seem an overly simplistic comparison but with reasonable, individual precautions and education and communication by healthcare professionals Corona virus is much less likely to kill you than going for a drive. Preparation and caution is smart overreacting and panicking is more harmful
40,000+ Americans died.....
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You cannot spread automobile accidents. Is this an overreaction? Probably, but comparing a pandemic to car crashes is comparing apples to oranges.
The only example I've seen of panicking is the ding dongs who for some reason buy out the entire toilet paper aisle every time the news reports anything unfortunate.
Cancelling Civi events and closing schools is a panic type reaction.
Terrible comparison. But, I just had a WTF moment turning on the Georgia/Ole Miss game. So there is a very good crowd. Feel sorry for them. Or.....perhaps there were a few reasonable logical safety protocols put into place as others here have sensibly suggested.
Unbelievably stupid take.
That’s your opinion but my point is we chose to do much more dangerous things in a daily basis. It’s a matter of education and perspective.
Really in what way? My wife died from cancer as have millions. It’s being fought and the causes addressed. What I am seeing now is the same rampaging fear of HIV and AIDS when it first appear. Yes the flu is dangerous and my heart and prayers go out to those that have contracted it but I wish level heads would prevail and put it in perspective.
It's not if you have no vaccine, droplet contagion, and a fatality rate of 4%.
Notice that nobody trained in medicine is describing those things as overreactions.
The armchair quarterbacks are all alone on this one.
You have to understand that it’s not necessarily about the deadlines of the disease. It’s about a very large number of cases happening at once causing the healthcare system to collapse. Think big picture.
It’s way more complex than the way you have painted it. The issue will be the strain on the healthcare system with a huge spike in illness.
Imagine if your 40,000 fatal car wrecks suddenly took place in a two week window instead of spread out over a full year. We’re not prepared to deal with that. So we reduce exposure in hopes of slowing the spread. If we can slow the spread we can better care for those that need help instead of overloading the system.
Imagine if your 40,000 fatal car wrecks suddenly took place in a two week window instead of spread out over a full year. We’re not prepared to deal with that. So we reduce exposure in hopes of slowing the spread. If we can slow the spread we can better care for those that need help instead of overloading the system.
Well OP says it’s safe. Someone inform the CDC and get these events back on schedule!
No one wants to turn into Italy or China. Overreaction? Maybe. But better safe than sorry.
Thats a reasonable response and concern. The fear of contracting it has much more potential for damaging the system as the actual infection.
I never said it was safe I was just trying for a little perspective.
This is BY FAR the absolutely worse way to view this. Humans have no immunity to coronavirus and there is no vaccine or treatment. If there’s a mass outbreak at once, it would be a disaster. Hospitals would be flooded with patients and those that need medical assistance wouldn’t be able to get it in many cases. Look at Italy. Will we all die, no. Is the death rate of 1-2% going to destroy the country? Probably not. But the 10% of elderly who will die and those that suffer from significant medical issues don’t deserve for this country to be careless about it. You have to slow down the infection rate so that our healthcare system can try to keep up.
I don’t disagree but many others have said there is some overrreaction. Honestly I was trying to put it in perspective and obviously hit some nerves and I apologize.
I'm not going to doctors anymore.Rupp's Rafters has all the answers.
Great. Now I have to worry about having a wreck while driving to the local dollar store to buy toilet paper that’s tainted ( no pun intended) with the virus from someone who didn’t wash with proper soap for the proper time before stocking said shelf in store where cousin Lulu wandered through touching everything that resembled a sheep’s family heirlooms. Just great. As if I didn’t have enough to worry about. Or did I? Nah, I did. I’m out of Lysol. Which reminds me, what’s Lysol usually go for? These prices seem extreme.
It's an attempt to keep the spread of the virus low enough so as to avoid our medical system being overwhelmed like it has been in Italy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachel...s-all-stores-escalating-coronavirus-lockdown/
For many elderly people, they have a 1 in 7 chance of dying if they contract the coronavirus from someone else. For those that don’t die, many will still require a lengthy stay in the ICU.
If there were some type of short term phenomenon that suddenly caused a large group of other drivers to start crashing into others, and you were one of many who had a 1 in 7 chance of dying in these wrecks, would you think that some type of aggressive, short term intervention might be worth considering?
Everyone needs to drive batshit crazy, drunk and texting for the next two weeks. We will show this virus who’s boss
What makes this stupid thing so well...stupid?
1) No symptom for 2 weeks. Means it’s spreads without being known.
2) No current vaccine.
That right there is a bad combination. And that’s why everyone is on edge.
whether there's people at march madness or not isn't gonna affect the spread of this one bit. Let's say they had the tournament as usual with people in the building? How many people are gonna contract the virus as a result of being at the game. I would be surprised if there was one incident for the entire thing. It's nothing but a pathetic panic that frankly makes us look weak as a society
it's a half measure that makes absolutely zero difference in the grand scheme of things
It sucks. I think people are overreacting too. But we just have to ride this thing out.
For "many" of these elderly (whatever that means) what are their chances of dying from any disease they happen to catch?
And even though you know this, we all have 100% chance of dying.
Not looking at this in a very serious way shows a misunderstanding of the potential problems from this disease. I don't think it is panic to take precautions before we become Italy. Italy was where we are now just a very short time ago.
Go tell Italy and China how weak they look.
Come on man.
They are covering their butts if nothing else. Imagine going, contracting the virus, and then someone gets the novel idea to sue the NCAA for negligence. Which I’m SURE some dumbass would.
Plus you can catch this and the flu at the same time. THAT would be a good combination I’m sure.
I hate this. But we live in a society. The powers at be have said no. So. It is what it is.
yeah and so what. We don't have a better medical system than they do? China lives under communist rule and they're eating rats to survive thats what started this mess. Italy isnt known for their healthcare and its roughly the size of what? The state of Michigan?? 99.9999 percent of people are going to be just fine stop listening to the media they are ambulance chasers and have done nothing but lie their asses off for two decades. They are the boy that cried wolf if they are panicking you can rest assured that things are getting better
It’s not at all. If 70 percent of the US population gets infected, you’ll have millions of deaths and the hospitals of the country will be so overwhelmed that there will be further unnecessary deaths.
For seasonal flu, those same elderly patients have about a 1 in 120 chance of dying if they caught it.
That’s a hell of a lot lower chance than for the new coronavirus.
Italy went from normal to chaos in 3 weeks
we are still in week one
contagious without showing symptom - or even registering symptoms.
Listening to the Rogan podcast, one expert is saying we are on a trajectory of 480K deaths in 7 months. He said containment is like trying to contain the wind at the moment. We are treating it like a Blizzard and its going to be a winter.
we are still in week one
contagious without showing symptom - or even registering symptoms.
Listening to the Rogan podcast, one expert is saying we are on a trajectory of 480K deaths in 7 months. He said containment is like trying to contain the wind at the moment. We are treating it like a Blizzard and its going to be a winter.
Let's reduce the speed limit to 25 mph. That should really help.