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Dont worry GayJG, Covbull-19 is mostly hype. Just stay healthy and keep that immune system strong. Watch out for the really big text walls and arguing with anyone who speculates on a speculation thread an you'll be fine.
Good to have you back now that you have learned your lesson. Im always here to help.
I was discussing this exact point via PM with @tranthidung.
Take Italy for example:
These are the official data:
(Google Translate translation,sorry)
The situation in Italy: March 6, 2020, 6.00 p.m.
POSITIVE 3916
DECEASED 197
HEALED 523
Press conference of the Head of Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli at 6 pm on 6 March:
4636 people who contracted the virus, currently positive 3916, 197 died and 523 recovered.
Among the 3916 positives:
1060 are found in home isolation
2394 hospitalized with symptoms
462 in intensive care
SOURCE: Italian Health MinisterI am not scared by mortality rate.
I am, as my relevant persons are, well below the age where mortality rate rises significantly.
I am worried by two things:
- The impact of getting ill, specifically the fact I could be quarantined, and how this could impact my life and my closest persons' too, as they could potentially be quarantined too.
- The impact on Italian Health system. Italy has a public
free prepaid via general taxation health system (according to a Bloomberg survey it is the 4th most efficient system in the world).
Contrary to other infections, COVID develops in severe pneumonia very quickly, putting health systems at strain all of a sudden.
Now there are 462 hospitalised in ICU units, mostly in the region where I live. What happens if I get sick and there aren't ICU left? OR what happens if I have a car accident (touch wood) and I need an ICU , but there are non left because the COVID19?
This is why I am, at least a bit, scared.
Italy is no different than all the other countries in that they are not testing everyone they know who was in contact with the virus.
You will never get legit info about mortality rates or critical condition rates as long as they do this, and just like they are incentivized to tax and spend into deep debt, print money, etc, they are incentivized to keep reported cases down by not testing too much.
Everyone mocked China for this, but every other gov following the same playbook, just not as extreme.
We are all Chinese now.
The big way this is backfiring on Govs like the US for instance is that by keeping the number of cases low in hopes of avoiding fear, they are making the fear worse bc it seems the mortality rates and odds of going to ICU are much higher than they really are.
Truth is tons and tons of people are walking around with COVBULL-19 in most countries and dont know it. During peak flu season ICU's routinely get overloaded. If you get in a car wreck and need ICU but a bunch of 80 year olds are already in them bc of flu season or Covbull-19, yes that would suck. But.... getting in a car wreck that bad is gonna suck even if they have 100 ICU beds waiting for you.
Drive safe!
These high mortality rates are as fake as the gov reported inflation rates. The critical condition rates are just as inflated. Poor diet is a bigger threat than this hyped China Flu will ever be. This whole thing had my attention with all the Wuhan shit that was going on early, but once we started getting some real data I ceased to worry about this, and hopefully you will do the same soon enough.
If Im wrong and we are all gonna go extinct bc we like to order junk products from Chinese factories, well fuck it, humanity was a cool experiment and Im sure we will have a nice place in the fossil record.
