Coronavirus - Some Facts and Daily Statistics - taking it seriously

[friedchickendinner]

Exponential growth.

Are you drunk? What is hard to understand?

This disease is highly contagious and deadly. Why do you think we’ve shut down?

You should be working overtime at Walmart, why are you posting so much?

They should if they didn't the right actions.

But they did take the right actions.

And so what should've happened, didn't happen.

[Dave D]

They should if they didn't the right actions.

But they did take the right actions.

And so what should've happened, didn't happen.

Oh the Chinese made the right decisions? But if they were homeless they are victims?

Make up your mind.

[Marvin Martian]

Unless they were at a zoo this is highly unlikely.

Shit tons of nutria where I live. Used to sell them to an old man when I was in junior high and high school. Not sure what the fck he did with them but he paid $2 per. Killed hundreds maybe thousands over the years

[Marvin Martian]

What does that mean, that they SHOULD have a death toll in the millions?

Are you in fact that disgusting morbidly obese fck Shiz? If not - apology. If so - what the fck is wrong with you man - WHY are you on this site? How would someone like you (if you)find a bodybuilding site? I just don’t understand how that happens.

[Dave D]

They locked down affected cities in January. It's hard for a virus to spread if nearly everyone is confined to their homes on order of the government. And have to wear masks if they go outside to get food.

Wuhan still has very little road traffic compared to normal. So they must still be in quarantine there.

So they’re on lock down?

[harmankardon1]

He's just another guy that doesn't understand exponential growth. In the video he said "the total  number of deaths since the coronavirus was discovered has been about 6,500, that's today the 16th of March". Implying that it took so long to just reach 6500 deaths, that it's no big deal.

Well, a few days later there are now 9000 dead. So it took months to kill 6500, but in only a few days later to reach 9000.

If you don't understand the significance of this, I don't know what to say.

Also comparing the flu which has been around for a long time, to the coronavirus that has just begun is retarded.

You are retarded.... The flu is a coronavirus dipshit

Where's the exponential growth??? China nope, South Korea nope, Italy nope......

You morons don't understand scaling there's well over 7 billion people in the world, and you dipshits are counting tallies in the hundreds with doom and gloom, dumb as fuck.

[Bindare_Dundat]

You are retarded.... The flu is a coronavirus dipshit

Where's the exponential growth??? China nope, South Korea nope, Italy nope......

You morons don't understand scaling there's well over 7 billion people in the world, and you dipshits are counting tallies in the hundreds with doom and gloom, dumb as fuck.

Lmao exactly. I'll never let people like live it down once things level off and eventually fade into oblivion and were back to Russia gate.

[Al Doggity]

I believe the covid-19 precautions are being massively overhyped, but I also think the "it's just the flu" brigade is inaccurate as well. I haven't seen a succinct description as to why  it shouldn't be treated like the flu (even though it's possibly here, there's a lot of threads. I had to get in on the action.)

1)One of the biggest differences between the flu and covid-19 is the suspected incubation period. The flu incubates for approx 3 days. Covid-19 can incubate for up to 14 days which theoretically means there's an exponentially greater chance to spread the virus to more people. Even h1n1 only had an average incubation period of 4 days (7 on the high end.)

2)Covid-19 was just introduced to humans, so we don't have any natural or assisted immunity. covid and flu are constantly compared, but flu death and hospitalization numbers are pretty bad and would be worse if it weren't for flu vaccines and some people's acquired immunity. The immunity doesn't just keep people from getting sick it also decreases transmission.
No immunity + long incubation period= possible recipe for disaster.

3)Covid-19 appears to disproportionately affect older people. For some people that's a reason to take it less seriously. If that's where you're coming from, then you have to be aware that this virus could easily mutate. H1N1 mutates every flu season and several of the derivative strains are more aggressive and more easily transmitted than the original version. There are reportedly already 2 strains of covid19 (though neither is believed to be a mutation), and it is not unheard of for a viral strain to mutate several times over the course of one season.


I do think a lot of what's going on is over the top, but the real worry of covid-19 is a specific combination of things that could potentially be really bad. It all sounds manageable and maybe even minor on an individual level, but combined, it COULD be castastrophic.

[AbrahamG]

Very good/rationale post. 

[Tapeworm]

What I take most seriously is that it is finally socially acceptable to tell people point blank to go away. I'm loving it.

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Here's one fact about coronavirus, nobody knows shit about it yet.

Yeah, some do & you are NOT 1 of those  & you never ever be in Club de Madrid or Club of Rome   

So, Saggy relax !.

[Bevo]

Are you trolling?

The flu is not a coronavirus, it's an influenza virus.

China, Italy and Korea quarantined so they slowed the growth.

If nobody does anything this virus could easily spread to a significant percentage of the global population, overload the hospitals killing many millions, that's why countries are quarantining. Such a simple concept you don't seem to understand.

And how is it not exponential, outside of china:

10 cases to 100 cases in 7 days
100 cases to 1,000 cases in 20 days
1,000 cases to 10,000 cases in 13 days
10,000 cases to 100,000 cases in 14 days

And that's with lots of countries quarantining, imagine if nobody did anything?

It’s been reported that Italy had a spike in almost 500 deaths over night and new cases of 3500+, they aren’t “slowing” down in that country.

[Griffith]

Perhaps it will just become the 'new' flu and people will just have to deal with it and carry on with life.

[Ron]

March 19th Updates

Coronavirus Cases: 256,879
Deaths: 10,540
Recovered: 89,920

ACTIVE CASES

156,419 Currently Infected Patients
148,952 (95%) in Mild Condition
7,467 (5%) Serious or Critical

CLOSED CASES

100,460 Cases which had an outcome:
89,920 (90%) Recovered / Discharged
10,540 (10%) Deaths



https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Ron]

Updated March 20th afternoon

Coronavirus Cases: 275,118
Deaths: 11,376
Recovered: 90,943


ACTIVE CASES

172,799 Currently Infected Patients
164,825 (95%) in Mild Condition
7,974 (5%) Serious or Critical

CLOSED CASES

102,319 Cases which had an outcome:
90,943 (89%) Recovered / Discharged
11,376 (11%) Deaths

[Ron]

March 22 update

Coronavirus Cases: 340,829
Deaths: 14,582
Recovered: 97,574

228,673 Currently Infected Patients
218,053 (95%) in Mild Condition
10,620 (5%) Serious or Critical

112,156 Cases which had an outcome:
97,574 (87%) Recovered / Discharged
14,582 (13%) Deaths

[XFACTOR]

This.If you went for a meal at a restaurant, this would be getting the bread sticks just after you sat down.The chef will be just getting the ingredients for your starter out of the fridge, and not even started preparing your main course yet.

Time for most in this thread to accept they got the biggest life changing event of our lifetime completely wrong when they dismissed it out of hand as nothing a month ago.It truly separated the clued up from the clueless, and it can't be reversed now.Just try and open your minds, educate yourself, look deep inside at what caused this arrogance, naivety and overconfidence in your own faulty judgement, so maybe you won't get the 2nd biggest event wrong too, if and when it happens.

It’s definitely not the biggest life changing event for me. My two children  make up those significant events. We’ll get through this and in 5 years a distant memory we occasionally go back to over a glass of wine. My kids will always be there front and Center in my mind making them the most significant

[Primemuscle]

Thank you Ron for these clear updates on the state of the world with regards to COVID-19. Regardless of what some folks think, the increase in numbers across the board should jolt people into taking every precaution against becoming infected that they possibly can.

My daughter and son-in-law went out yesterday for some needed supplies and discovered that markets and big box stores are rationing not just paper and sanitation products, they're now rationing food because hoarders have cleared the shelves. Our dogs eat home prepared food which includes ground turkey. In order to make a batch which lasts a week, they need three large packages of it. Costco was limiting folks to one package. So for for now, the pups are eating dried dog food from the pet store. Who knew ground turkey was such a big commodity?

[chaos]

Thank you Ron for these clear updates on the state of the world with regards to COVID-19. Regardless of what some folks think, the increase in numbers across the board should jolt people into taking every precaution against becoming infected that they possibly can.

Shows that the testing for it is actually happening.

[Primemuscle]

Shows that the testing for it is actually happening.

What would convince you that tests were actually happening? Why wouldn't they be happening? Or, is this all just a global hoax perpetrated by....who?

It is unlikely testing can produce accurate numbers of those infected when the virus is apparently as contagious as this one is. If anything, the numbers we are given under inflate rather than over inflate the how many people are infected.

[chaos]

What would convince you that tests were actually happening? Why wouldn't they be happening? Or, is this all just a global hoax perpetrated by....who?

It is unlikely testing can produce accurate numbers of those infected when the virus is apparently as contagious as this one is. If anything, the numbers we are given under inflate rather than over inflate the how many people are infected.

Go back and read my post. The numbers are going up because they have a test for it. As the numbers go up we see the percentage of deaths is actually much smaller than the media would have us believe. They should be held responsible for the panic and chaos we're going through.

[Ron]

March 26 Update

Coronavirus Cases: 532,263
Deaths: 24,090
Recovered: 124,349

ACTIVE CASES  383,824
Currently Infected Patients
364,189 (95%) in Mild Condition
19,635 (5%) Serious or Critical

CLOSED CASES 148,439
Cases which had an outcome:
124,349 (84%) Recovered / Discharged
24,090 (16%) Deaths

[Primemuscle]

March 26 Update

Coronavirus Cases: 532,263
Deaths: 24,090
Recovered: 124,349

ACTIVE CASES  383,824
Currently Infected Patients
364,189 (95%) in Mild Condition
19,635 (5%) Serious or Critical

CLOSED CASES 148,439
Cases which had an outcome:
124,349 (84%) Recovered / Discharged
24,090 (16%) Deaths

Thanks for keeping us current on these stats. I wonder if some folks here think you are part of a conspiracy because you report the facts.

[Megalodon]

NYC Health Commissioner "Dr" Oxiris Barbot sez:


"....there is no reason not to take the subway, not to take the bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant, and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday."


 

[Army of One]

NYC Health Commissioner "Dr" Oxiris Barbot sez:


"....there is no reason not to take the subway, not to take the bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant, and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday."


 

I seriously wonder what these people are smoking.