Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

But those people spread it to four other people because they think they're fine, and so on and so forth. The rate is low but the infected population rises exponentially. And every new infected person requiring intensive care or ventilation, once we've exhausted ICU and ventilator capacity in the US, is very likely going to die. We will spike the death toll by drowning our system capacity.

 

My understanding is the more people get this the more resistance our immune systems will build to it. But that rather seems a high risk to take.

These dipshit kids know they're long odds to get it and likely carriers - they don't give a fuck. That's the society we've built.

 

Honestly, a lot more people have already died from this too. They just weren't counted because of our country's response to it. The president even thought we only had 15 total at one point so how would deaths be counted? So they were classified as pneumonias or other respiratory failures. Make no mistake, this isn't good. Hopefully all these measures help a bunch but this is serious regardless.

 

Kid wants to play in the mud. Mommy says no because germs. The same germs that will build this kid's immune system.

Yeah, it's a hell of a balance.

 

Absolutely. What a jabroni.

 

With regard to the headline, maybe so.

But for me, at least, it (and the actual story) certainly brought home the fact of the intense danger of spread like almost nothing else has. I simply couldn't imagine a single family being so devastated by this. And it's not like these are 80-something aged people.

I'm among those who thinks I might've actually already had a (milder) case of coronavirus, and recovered, without ever knowing for sure, and I've been intensely interested in this as it's gone on.

I came home from an 18-day cruise (yep, on a Princess ship) to Antarctica and South America in middle-late January with a cold/flu type thing that lasted a long time (probably a good three or four weeks), with lots of coughing. I did my best not to, but I'm sure the people next to me on the plane rides home didn't appreciate my hacking away. Still, I sucked on cough drops, brought up lots of phlegm and had a mild fever for at least a couple days, but I didn't think much of it at the time because the corona virus really only started to become known and talked about just after that.

Even so, having watched and worked first-hand as people have gone completely crazy cleaning out stores, and having a nephew who's a senior in high school but who is now out of school and will probably not get to have a graduation ceremony, and having talked to a brother who is a district manager for several restaurants who is now talking to his managers about closing them all indefinitely, and considering the economic ramifications and possible long-term costs of all that's going on to, potentially, so many, I've been unsure about whether such drastic steps, everywhere, are actually necessary, at least to the extent that they are being implemented. I've thought some measure of calm and consideration should be brought to bear, and have not been sure that has actually taken place.

To have one family be hit so hard as this one has been makes the points that need to be made. It makes the situation hit home and heart, much more so than just hearing, reading or listening to the facts of the case as it were, and just intellectually understanding the danger.

 

Nope. Once YOU get it you build immunity. Others getting it does nothing for OUR immunity.

 

I'm convinced that a major part of the reason Trump ignored this crisis is that it has disproportionately impacted reasonable (i.e. non-Trumpist) states. Those lives don't matter to him. Witness his reactions to natural disasters. He didn't even know Puerto Rico was part of the US and when he found out, he was bitter that he had to do something about it. He dithered. But he was so worried about sweet home Alabama and other SEC places that he falsely told them a hurricane was on its way, going overboard and ignoring the forecasts of experts in the -- heaven forbid -- fedruhl government who said the storm was not a threat to Alabama.
Only when it got so bad that all but 40 Trumpists in the House voted for a relief package did he begin to take notice.

 

Nope. When stocks plummeted it got his attention immediately. The market was his marker for accomplishment, and he hung his hat on it early and often. Until then, not so much.

 

You want to market covid awareness in the South? Here's how.

 

Read this tweet string, if you have the guts. It's bad.