ICEMANE

6y

Bruh just smoke weed everyday and drink Emergen-C

Yejyej

6y

good plan bro

ICEMANE

6y

Vitamin C and weed are the cures. Stay woke

Yejyej

6y

1 - There are currently no Therapeutics or anti virals that can remedy covid-19.

2 - Highly contagious; it may not kill many middle aged or younger ppl, but it still gets people sick, and that's not good for day to day life....so therefore containment has to take place....which leads to shutdown of day to day activities, hampering education, economy and life.

3 - Mutation; this thing can jump from animal to human, and has shown it can go from human to human and even human back to animal. This shows it has, is and will most likely continue to mutate. Hopefully it doesn't mutate into a worse form, but that we don't know at this point. THus, containment has to be taken, and siding on the side of safety and prevention is wise.

4 - Elderly death rate. This thing strikes those who are already sick and those who are older very hard. If you value our older ones, this might have more weight to you, compared to those who don't.
it brings up an interesting moral dilemma, but fact of the matter is, these groups demographis are at a HUGE risk.
If we value their lives, heavy containment and prevention must be taken.

5 - "Regular flu" generally refers to many different types of flus. In the 2018-19 flu seaon, 34 000 people died from all types of coronavirus and flus.
Yes, much more than the current sars-cov-2. But pair that with the fact 34 000 000 total got infected.
The rates for this novel coronavirus are quite high:

This is because there are no current vaccines or therapeutics; see point 1.
Thus why the freak out and resources being spent trying to contain it.

Yejyej

6y

1 - There are currently no Therapeutics or anti virals that can remedy covid-19.

2 - Highly contagious; it may not kill many middle aged or younger ppl, but it still gets people sick, and that's not good for day to day life....so therefore containment has to take place....which leads to shutdown of day to day activities, hampering education, economy and life.

3 - Mutation; this thing can jump from animal to human, and has shown it can go from human to human and even human back to animal. This shows it has, is and will most likely continue to mutate. Hopefully it doesn't mutate into a worse form, but that we don't know at this point. THus, containment has to be taken, and siding on the side of safety and prevention is wise.

4 - Elderly death rate. This thing strikes those who are already sick and those who are older very hard. If you value our older ones, this might have more weight to you, compared to those who don't.
it brings up an interesting moral dilemma, but fact of the matter is, these groups demographis are at a HUGE risk.
If we value their lives, heavy containment and prevention must be taken.

5 - "Regular flu" generally refers to many different types of flus. In the 2018-19 flu seaon, 34 000 people died from all types of coronavirus and flus.
Yes, much more than the current sars-cov-2. But pair that with the fact 34 000 000 total got infected.
The rates for this novel coronavirus are quite high:

This is because there are no current vaccines or therapeutics; see point 1.
Thus why the freak out and resources being spent trying to contain it.

Corona Virus

6y

Thanks for that. Good points, but what the original post said is that mortality rates are lower than reported because many people likely get it and arent diagnosed. Isnt this true?

Also, there are numerous ways to calculate how deadly something is. The regular flu is more deadly according to total fatalities per year, no? Perhaps it is less deadly on a case by case basis...

Corona Virus

6y

Also, what are the therapeutics for the regular flu?

I thought there was no cure for it either?

You are talking about treating the symptoms or what?

trespass

6y

how many estimated cases in the US so far??

Yevin

6y

oh yeah we dying this year

Yejyej

6y

Quick google search:
"Currently, there are three antiviral d**** recommended for treating the flu: oseltamivir (Tamiflu®), zanamivir (Relenza®), and peramivir (Rapivab®). These d**** work by interrupting the function of neuraminidase on the virus surface and preventing the release of viral particles from infected host cells."

"cure" is a funny word if we say we mean to hae no symptoms or if we mean just to have normal health.

Theraputics help remedy the dieseases cause by nasty viruses. I personally like that word more.

see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22246228

Corona Virus

6y

U in med school or sum bro?

Yejyej

6y

nah just interested lol

Yejyej

6y

internet can be better teacher than university lol

Corona Virus

6y

Thanks for that. Good points, but what the original post said is that mortality rates are lower than reported because many people likely get it and arent diagnosed. Isnt this true?

Also, there are numerous ways to calculate how deadly something is. The regular flu is more deadly according to total fatalities per year, no? Perhaps it is less deadly on a case by case basis...