I hope my kids and I get Covid this summer so we can be done with it before fall. Anyone else?

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Anonymous wrote:No, and here's why:

--The 1-3% chance of death.
--The high chance the suffering (feeling like you can't breath and taking months to recover).
--The moderate (1/8) chance of hospitalization. I don't want to put myself, my family, or even my coworkers though that. Plus it's $$$.
--The almost certain chance that I will spread it to someone, and that will lead to the death and suffering of many more people and their families.

You're basically lighting a match and walking away by not making your best effort to contain this thing. What your "best effort" is not going to be the same for everyone. But it's certainly not hoping you get it.

Citation?

Don'y you guys read the news? https://www.barrons.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-hospitalizations-approach-30-here-are-the-latest-covid-19-data-51586175360

It's May 29 and you're citing an article from April 6?

Because I don't feel like sitting here writing a research paper for you. Just Google it. There are literally thousands of articles citing these statistics. Look up your age. And figure it out. I'm 45.

CDC's "Best guess" scenario for age 0-49 symptomatic cases is 1.7% with a range from 1.3%-2.6%. That's a serious level of risk for hospitalization, but not anywhere near 12.5% (1 in 8).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html

How does that number square with the .07% number cited directly above. This number is 20+ times greater and it's for a lower age group than the overall number. Sure, asymptomatic cases would lower the hospitalization rate, but not by that much....

I think the .07% is based on the number of hospitalizations in the whole US population (infection status irrelevant). 1.7% is the estimate of people with symptomatic infections.

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Anonymous wrote:No, and here's why:

--The 1-3% chance of death.
--The high chance the suffering (feeling like you can't breath and taking months to recover).
--The moderate (1/8) chance of hospitalization. I don't want to put myself, my family, or even my coworkers though that. Plus it's $$$.
--The almost certain chance that I will spread it to someone, and that will lead to the death and suffering of many more people and their families.

You're basically lighting a match and walking away by not making your best effort to contain this thing. What your "best effort" is not going to be the same for everyone. But it's certainly not hoping you get it.

Citation?

Don'y you guys read the news? https://www.barrons.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-hospitalizations-approach-30-here-are-the-latest-covid-19-data-51586175360

It's May 29 and you're citing an article from April 6?

Because I don't feel like sitting here writing a research paper for you. Just Google it. There are literally thousands of articles citing these statistics. Look up your age. And figure it out. I'm 45.

CDC's "Best guess" scenario for age 0-49 symptomatic cases is 1.7% with a range from 1.3%-2.6%. That's a serious level of risk for hospitalization, but not anywhere near 12.5% (1 in 8).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html

I think the .07% is based on the number of hospitalizations in the whole US population (infection status irrelevant). 1.7% is the estimate of people with symptomatic infections.

Actually, rereading the post...the .07% rates is the cumulative hospitalization rate for COVID....which doesn't really tell you much unless you also know the percentage of population who has actually had the virus. The factor of 20 would indicate only 5% of the population has had the virus.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree. I don't understand how this prolonged hiding makes any difference. It's still going to be around when we come back out of our holes in six months.

You can come out of your hole. Wear a mask, wash your hands, and try and stay away from places with lots of other people. That's all.

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Teacher: And now, we’ll all write three sentences about how we spent our summer break.

Larla: How do you spell respirator?

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher: And now, we’ll all write three sentences about how we spent our summer break.

Larla: How do you spell respirator?

Who names their kid "Larla?"

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This thread is just evidence of the fact that people in our area have officially lost their damn minds!
Irrational fear controls the masses and our society has been hugely uneducated about statistical probability. Every time you step out of your house, you assume a level of risk to your life. But until three months ago, we did not call people crazy for assessing that their risk of dying in a car crash was relatively low—and choosing to assume the risk.

People. A vaccine will not rid the world of this. Live your life.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher: And now, we’ll all write three sentences about how we spent our summer break.

Larla: How do you spell respirator?

Who names their kid "Larla?"

You must be new here.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher: And now, we’ll all write three sentences about how we spent our summer break.

Larla: How do you spell respirator?

Who names their kid "Larla?"

Ummmm. You’re new here. [pats you condescendingly on the head]...now sit down.

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Sorry but 1% is NOT good enough for me. That's crazy high.

Complications are really bad too (and those are much higher than 1%) and it doesn't show that you develop immunity. After all, how many times have you had the flu?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry but 1% is NOT good enough for me. That's crazy high.

Complications are really bad too (and those are much higher than 1%) and it doesn't show that you develop immunity. After all, how many times have you had the flu?

I'm 53 and the the best of my knowledge have never had the flu. My spouse is 48, and swore she had it (for the first time) last year but tested negative.

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Anonymous wrote:No, and here's why:

--The 1-3% chance of death.
--The high chance the suffering (feeling like you can't breath and taking months to recover).
--The moderate (1/8) chance of hospitalization. I don't want to put myself, my family, or even my coworkers though that. Plus it's $$$.
--The almost certain chance that I will spread it to someone, and that will lead to the death and suffering of many more people and their families.

You're basically lighting a match and walking away by not making your best effort to contain this thing. What your "best effort" is not going to be the same for everyone. But it's certainly not hoping you get it.

Citation?

Don'y you guys read the news? https://www.barrons.com/articles/u-s-coronavirus-hospitalizations-approach-30-here-are-the-latest-covid-19-data-51586175360

From the CDC's website today: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

Hospitalizations
Cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates since March 1, 2020, are updated weekly. The overall cumulative hospitalization rate is 67.9 per 100,000, with the highest rates in people aged 65 years and older (214.4 per 100,000) and 50-64 years (105.9 per 100,000).

Overall hospitalization rate is .07%.

LOL @ 30% PP.

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Anonymous wrote:We may all get it eventually. I'd much RATHER get it after doctors and scientists have a had a year to watch and learn about treatments, and long term health effects and ways those may be prevented.

2020 will be the deadliest and worst year to contract it.

This

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, as long as you are okay with disability or death that might have been prevented by new medicines, treatments, or vaccines.

We are all healthy and DH and I are under 50, so yes I am comfortable with the less than 1% chance of that happening to us.

You don't read much news, do you? Legit, serious, medical news.

You're a teacher. Teachers should be better informed about science news -- actual news, not wishful thinking -- than you seem to be.

No confirmed immunity for those who have already had the virus. Cases of reinfection that are being studied. No treatment at this point (drugs being studied for treatment and some hope for remdesivir for the very sickest patients but no large trials). Cases of a serious complication in children (look up MIS-C) that needs to be studied further. Scientists around the world predicting a rise in infections and deaths following so many countries reopening businesses etc. What about all this do you just not understand? Or rather, what about all this do you just not want to understand so you can "get back to normal"?

Head, meet sand.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry but 1% is NOT good enough for me. That's crazy high.

Complications are really bad too (and those are much higher than 1%) and it doesn't show that you develop immunity. After all, how many times have you had the flu?

I'm 53 and the the best of my knowledge have never had the flu. My spouse is 48, and swore she had it (for the first time) last year but tested negative.

NP. Well of course you haven't. And it's all about your personal and individual experience, not about the greater good or the fact you can infect others though you don't show symptoms yourself, so go out there and contract covid to your heart's content! You'll be fine! Infect others? So what, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree. I don't understand how this prolonged hiding makes any difference. It's still going to be around when we come back out of our holes in six months.

You can come out of your hole. Wear a mask, wash your hands, and try and stay away from places with lots of other people. That's all.

PPs, stop with the "hiding" and "in a hole" nonsense.

You know that is not what most people are doing. Most are still at least getting groceries, working from home (how is that hiding? they're interacting with others), picking up curbside takeout or whatever. The language around hiding away down a hole is just your way to try to make people seem nuts when they actually are following guidelines.