For those of you who are dismissing Coronavirus....

JesseIsGarbage wrote:

Air quality in China is certainly a major public health problem, but it's irresponsible to conflate deaths and illness from Corona with air quality.

How can you say this? Air, water and food quality have an enormous impact on health- nothing is more critical than these factors. Of course one should be conflating any and all health issues with environmental factors. If you drink poisoned water you will get sick and your immune system will be suppressed and ultimately damaged. Do you deny this? If you breathe poisoned air the same thing happens. Do you deny this?

The entirety of your comment is rife with logical fallacies and flaws in basic deductive reasoning.

Accurate comment.

You might also wish to examine the air quality (and water) in the Po Valley situated in Northern Italy.

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-italy-polluted-po-valley-gasps.html

https://vitesy.com/blog/air-pollution/nitrogen-dioxide-fine-particles-po-valley-air-quality/

What’s all this talk of geometric transmission. 1 case doubled ever day for 31 days equals 10,737,418. The first case in the US was Jan 21. That’s about 45 days ago. So if transmission doubles everyday that’s in the billions.

Google Asian China wet markets

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/05/802938289/new-coronavirus-wont-be-the-last-outbreak-to-move-from-animal-to-human

https://youtu.be/vb4oDJ4T1kE

https://youtu.be/uE6SXsrspUg

https://youtu.be/1_vFAQ4dRik

https://youtu.be/TPpoJGYlW54

https://youtu.be/Y7nZ4mw4mXw

Your life is being threatened by these practices...don’t believe e me? Watch the videos above...

People are dying because of this thing

Front end measures of ending these practices vs back end measures death illness despair

Bullet_Proof wrote:

Educate Yourself wrote:

The only course of action that will prevent a catastrophe is social distancing.

After all of that buildup and fear mongering, that is your solution?

How are you going to get groceries? Gas? What about the people who have to work at grocery stores and gas stations? It is ok for them to risk their lives and go to work but not you?

I love how the people saying the sky is falling still need go to grocery stores and all of a sudden its not that bad. Not bad enough when they show up.

Lockdown means lockdown. Under the type of quarantine that the doomsayers are calling for. Most people would last for about 2 weeks with food until they would be forced to venture out into society due to hunger.

Great solution, Educate Yourself.

Social distancing is not the same as self-isolation or self-quarantine. You can get groceries or gas while keeping a safe and reasonable distance from other individuals. Couple this with good hygiene - i.e. washing your hands often and not touching your face, covering your mouth when you cough, etc.

Survival of the fittest. That’s how nature works. That’s just how it is. Pay the price for making poor choices in life. The payment is coming due.

Smoking drinking eating unhealthy food never exercising. Nonchalant and selfish attitude about health for a lifetime. Ridiculing and mocking “health nuts”. And so now it’s my responsibility??? Oh no baby. Think again. You reap what you sew. Suck it!

This ^

You can prep all you want. SARS don't care. You're going to get it, and if you're old enough or in a high risk group, go ahead and sit on your canned good empire and gloat. For a while, anyway.

Do you enjoy your suffering?

Or would you rather see permanent bans on these practices??

https://youtu.be/Iwr5rpgLa5s

I am a physician specializing in infectious disease. Those who dismiss the SARSCoV-2 do so at their peril. Read what a real expert has to say:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/opinions/osterholm-coronavirus-interview-bergen/index.html

vonderlasa wrote:

I am a physician specializing in infectious disease. Those who dismiss the SARSCoV-2 do so at their peril. Read what a real expert has to say:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/opinions/osterholm-coronavirus-interview-bergen/index.html

I'm a hungry, angry mob and physicians who sold us down the river so they can drive their fancy range rovers are the first people we're looting.

Really, where are you a physician in infectious disease?

How many people have it in China weeks ahead in the curve. Under 100k

They don't tie in with your over simplified calculations.

Giles Corey wrote:

bluecolla wrote:

He’ll have plenty of time to analyze the actual numbers when the White House announces the 14 day mandatory quarantine for everyone tomorrow.

Frightening.

Are we going to lie down for this?

Are they going to starve us?

I don't think there are enough armed guards to keep us locked up in our homes - unless our benevolent government chooses to hire Chinese mercenaries to guard us. The virus is done there.

This.

Educate Yourself wrote:

Let me provide one more statistic.

China completely locked down most of Hubei province when they had hit 400 new diagnosed cases a day.

China still ended up with 80,000 cases.

The US is currently seeing 1800 cases a day, and there is no lockdown yet. If we were to lock down the entire country today, following the Chinese trend line we would still see 320,000 cases.

We are nowhere close to the type of lockdown that China implemented.

this.

Many sources, across the world and across an ideological spectrum, are urging significant action.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51915302

https://www.foxnews.com/health/things-you-can-do-right-now-to-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus

It's doubling about every 3 days, not two. Still valid points about exponential growth and lots of cases soon unless we isolate.

JesseIsGarbage wrote:

Oh Phudge. So all the space and words wasted by you here come down to a goofball conspiracy theory then?

Stop spreading disinformation you whack job. Aren't there enough places like Infowars for retards like you?

WEJO/ROJO, when TF are you going to ban this sort of dangerous nonsense on your site? You're going to look not so great when people start dying in larger numbers in this country.

"Oh Phudge" yourself Garbage. And now you resort to childish name calling with one in particular considered an insult to the mentally handicapped. What a jerk - so you don't like what someone says on a forum and you resort to insults. This is typical of the trolls that act so tough and all on these forums.

Bottom line with China: They average 1.1 million deaths annually from air pollution so their government isn't going to give a rat's ass about a measly 3200 that have died from the coronavirus which was probably more from pulmonary diseases from the toxic air. It could have been the bird flu. Or the swine flu. Or the snake flu or whatever one you want to pick. Doesn't matter - toxic, deadly air kills those people more than any virus...period. But it's easier for the government to blame a "virus." And show me where the nation isn't controlled by an oppressive tyrannical government? Ever heard of their social score rating system? Did you know that over a million of their people are currently in the Xinjiang re-education camps for not going along with government's playbook? This government could give a sh*t about their people and you have the audacity to defend them?!? Shows how misinformed you are. Lol.

And you're the one spreading panic & fear-mongering like crazy. What evidence do you have for your dire predictions? Computer projections from the fear-mongering CDC/WHO control freaks? The ad nuseam "but...but...look at Italy" montra? A crystal ball? Where's all the deceased? The latest report I've seen is 85 dead? How long is the coronavirus been around? Maybe a couple months now...maybe longer? The report also states that there are currently only 12 listed as serious or critical. Where's all overcrowded ICUs full of coronavirus patients that I keep hearing about? Could there be patients in ICUs with complications from the seasonal flu? (Imagine that). Maybe other respiratory pathologies? You seem to have all the answers garbage - so give a breakdown of the type of patient that are supposedly clogging up the ICUs that has put everyone in a frenzy.

And you have poor research skills. 85 so far have died from the CV - a virus that could have been in the U.S. for months now.

The *CDC* reports that 12,000 have died from the seasonal flu so far this flu season:

"Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus."

"While everyone is in a panic about the coronavirus (officially renamed COVID-19by the World Health Organization), there's an even deadlier virus many people are forgetting about: the flu."

"Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated(based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000."

And *144* children have died so far from the seasonal flu - primarily from the potent "B" strain (look it up - far worst than the CV especially on younger people).

How many children have died from CV? How many children are in the ICU from CV?

You're clearly fear-mongering on a virus that can't compare anything to the seasonal flu stats every year.

And based on the horrific seasonal flu stats, the government should go full lockdown with social distancing during the seasonal flu season from October thru April EVERY FREAKING YEAR! But apparently saving those lives aren't important - business as usual & no panic or fear-mongering!

Learn to understand statistics...learned to understand reality.

myopic and small views wrote:

Essentially, people who aren't worried by the virus that go out in public are infecting people and perhaps killing people.

It's not about you or your health, it's about the collective health of our country. If you don't stay home, you can spread it. The more this goes on, the higher the infection rates will go and the worse it gets. Just listen and stop thinking you know better. Stop being selfish.

Americans, for one reason or another, just don't believe anything bad can ever happen to them...

This is what I hear all the time from people, and I don't understand it. If you are worried, what stops you from staying home and never seeing me? I can't spread it to you if I never see you. Why can't person 1 exist in his world at home locked down, off the grid and 'safe' while person 2 chooses to go risk death at parties, with all the other like minded souls, and both be happy? This is how the free world works. If the hospitals overrun and all the person 2s die, that was their choice. But you seek to take away the choice of a short, happy life so that you won't be infected, ignoring the fact you already have the choice to stay home and not be infected. So I'm confused.