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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stuff of nightmares.

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

Scary but not at all unrealistic. Stay at home people.[/quote]

It's scary because it's poorly written panic porn. [/quote]

Sure gets those clicks, though.

“According to the paper, among people aged 49 or younger, only about 0.2% of those who contracted the disease died.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/health/covid-19-recovery-rates-intl/index.html[/quote]

Ok, let’s say this is true. Experts think 40 to 80% of the population will get this because no one has immunity. There are about 200 million people in the US under age 50. If you take the lowest end of that — 40% — and take 0.2% of it, it’s still 160,000 deaths of young people in the US. Seasonal flu usually kills about 8,000 non-elderly people.

There is no way this shakes out that is not a big deal. Anyone who says it’s not a big deal is in denial.[/quote]

I don’t understand the 40 to 80% statistic considering that everyone I know is social distancing. Are you saying most of those people are already infected? And not showing symptoms? Can you cite that statistic please?[/quote]

Our social distancing is meant to delay the peak so our hospitals can cope, not to keep us from getting it.

Here is the Times article on estimates of percentage of the population that will get it under different scenarios: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html[/quote]

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