RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
March 23, 2020 at 1:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2020 at 1:49 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 28, 2020 at 12:53 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: The more I read about it, the more confused I am about it. According to the CDC, the symptoms are a fever, cough, and shortness of breath, a triad that applies to a shitton of diseases. And given that the death rate is a little more than 2%, mostly older people, I’m finding it harder to understand what exactly the fuss is about. What exactly makes this different from other respiratory diseases that go around? Besides its apparently lasting longer, and having a known source of the outbreak? Is there something I’m missing?
It's important to remember that this strain of the virus appeared very recently; and it comes from a family of viruses whose illnesses could range from the common cold to SARS, or possibly worse. Up until recently it was hard to know what the lottery had in store for us. To know that the death rate is 2% you need 2% of people to have died in the past two or three months; and while that's happening the virus is still spreading.
In other words, only in retrospect can we ask what all the fuss was about; but as we're going through it, we are the statistics that determine what the percentages will be. So fuss helps people prepare and hopefully prevent.