Anyone who still thinks this is no big deal...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not 2% of the population... *bangs head against wall*

Ok it's 2% of 40-70% of the population. Let's call it 50% of the population that will get infected.

That's 115,000,000 people. Thus 1,500,000 dead of the disease and 20,000,000 hospitalized, displacing all the other critical patients, who also die at a higher rate. It's on the order of magnitude of 2,000,000 deaths at a minimum if we don't slow it down.

Its more complicated than that.

The virus disproportionately kills elderly people with existing health problems. 650,000 Americans die of heart disease every year. There would be a big overlap between coronavirus deaths and heart disease deaths in a regular year as those are the demographics being killed off by the virus.

Sure it's more complicated but the conservative estimate of only 50% of the population getting infected should take care of overaccounting for any overlap.

[Anonymous]

Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

The article people teetering on the brink of insanity did not need. My god.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

The article people teetering on the brink of insanity did not need. My god.

Kinda true though. And I’m trying to nail down exactly how airborne this is? Can it linger in air for hours? If you walk behind someone on a windy day, will you inhale it even 6 ft away??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

The article people teetering on the brink of insanity did not need. My god.

Kinda true though. And I’m trying to nail down exactly how airborne this is? Can it linger in air for hours? If you walk behind someone on a windy day, will you inhale it even 6 ft away??

It can linger at least 45 minutes on a moving bus according to the warnings out of Wuhan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

I loved how she wore a mask but they hugged. Do people do that?

And who the F doesn’t wash their hands after #2????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

The article people teetering on the brink of insanity did not need. My god.

Kinda true though. And I’m trying to nail down exactly how airborne this is? Can it linger in air for hours? If you walk behind someone on a windy day, will you inhale it even 6 ft away??

It can linger at least 45 minutes on a moving bus according to the warnings out of Wuhan.

Closed quarters I assume are bad, like a bus or grocery store line.

But outside, I hope it dispersed quickly? Like if I inhale 1 virus is that it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

I loved how she wore a mask but they hugged. Do people do that?

And who the F doesn’t wash their hands after #2????

I imagine some people don't but I wish the author had made up some other hygiene fail because that one is just not relatable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

I loved how she wore a mask but they hugged. Do people do that?

And who the F doesn’t wash their hands after #2????

I imagine some people don't but I wish the author had made up some other hygiene fail because that one is just not relatable.

I'm not sure, but I keep thinking of this quote from a doctor in Italy before the whole country was on lockdown: “'There are too many people walking around,' Dr. Balanzoni protested."

And now, well, you know.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-quarantine.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

The article people teetering on the brink of insanity did not need. My god.

Kinda true though. And I’m trying to nail down exactly how airborne this is? Can it linger in air for hours? If you walk behind someone on a windy day, will you inhale it even 6 ft away??

It can linger at least 45 minutes on a moving bus according to the warnings out of Wuhan.

wow. Fascinating article. Also, 'burst in starburst waves like the glowing algae in a midnight lagoon' was truly poetic

[Anonymous]

If simply stepping outdoors infected you, the infection and death rate would have been even higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If simply stepping outdoors infected you, the infection and death rate would have been even higher.

Well obviously it's not "simply stepping outdoors" that infects you. It's not even being in a crowded area that infects you. Your chances of being infected simply increase the more people you are around. Could you get infected by being within six feet, outdoors, of the cough of somebody who was infected? Maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

I loved how she wore a mask but they hugged. Do people do that?

And who the F doesn’t wash their hands after #2????

A LOT, as I've witnessed over and over again in public bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stuff of nightmares.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/03/the-story-of-a-coronavirus-infection.html

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.

That made me shiver. At least I hoe that's what made me shiver.