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JWestie · Mar 19, 2020

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Some facts regarding COVID-19: The current mortality rate for people 50 and younger is at 0.2% (which likely is lower since most people infected with mild symptoms don't get hospitalized and therefore are not tested/reported). Highest risk group by far is age 70 or above.

So far, Italy has reported the most amount of deaths at 2500 but 99% of the COVID-19 deaths in Italy had comorbid, pre-existing conditions and the average age was 79.5

So far, there are 225,000 infected people with COVID 19 WORLDWIDE with 9500 reported deaths (183 deaths in the US).

In 2018, there were 35 million people infected with influenza, almost 500,000 hospitalizations and 34,000 deaths in the US alone!!!

The need to slow the spread of the COVID virus in order to not overwhelm our hospitals is a valid concern but I do not agree with the LEFT mainstream media trying spread fear and paranoia across our great nation. We have THE BEST healthcare system in the world and for 99% of our population, this virus is not going to pose a serious risk to our health.

However, the economic hardship that is about to happen because of the aggressive tactics by our government "leaders" needs to be assessed and scrutinized as we move forward. Should we be sequestering everyone and keeping our kids out of school for the next 3 months when they are not at risk??? The economic burden and hardship for millions of Americans may FAR EXCEED the morbidity related to COVID-19 infections.

Let's continue to inform, educate and make reasonable recommendations/decisions based off facts & data and NOT based on speculation and uncertainty. This virus is already in our communities and will spread despite our best efforts to contain it.

Practice good hygiene and protect our elderly and vulnerable populations but let's not stop living our lives simply because our government THINKS they are doing the right thing to contain it. DO WE TAKE SUCH DRASTIC ACTIONS FOR THE FLU EVERY YEAR even though it kills more than 30,000 people/year?? just something to think about as we seclude ourselves over the next month(s)??

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Sorry, but I'm going with the science on this one. Flu is not a reportable disease while coronavirus is nasty as fuck and will kill your ass. My sisters hospital has a 30-year old on an ECMO machine with no preexistings. He gets a double lung transplant IF he lives. There wont be an economy if the infection trajectory persists.

0xDEADBEEF · Mar 19, 2020

Why is it social distancing?

Are we talking about exes?

TacoBuffet · Mar 19, 2020

Tacotruck7 said: ↑

He also was immunocompromised to having cancer previously. That's a big factor.
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He was definitely at high risk not "at" risk as someone put it. Asthma, chronic bronchitis and immunocompromised as someone else put it based on his remission which only means it undetectable.

jberry813 · Mar 19, 2020

Samus said: ↑

This is why we can't have nice things.
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Yup.

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