Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3927845)

To be fair, other locations are quickly approaching Italy's rates, which isn't a good sign. Look at Spain and UK and France now. New York is right there, too. I'm not suggesting it won't get that bad. It is early. Who knows where we go from here. That was my main point - we don't really have enough information to make any solid judgments yet. Next summer, I expect we'll have a pretty good understanding of what the virus was doing right now lol.

I was just saying I won't be surprised if the mortality rates are inflated because so many people get infected that aren't ever tested. Testing as many people as possible and research for treatment are the critical things right now. No point in even talking about statistics, frankly. We know they are bad and that's all we need to know right now.

Originally Posted by FL 4Motion (Post 3927858)

More Testing, esp antibody tests and quick turn around infection tests, and research cant come soon enough. Hopefully we see a vaccine by next year.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3927854)

"People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals"

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3927854)

"People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals"

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3927783)

Also read tonight that there is 30 different strains of the virus now. I know before there was 9. The more strains. The harder to make a vaccine. :shakes head:

What gets me. They tell us, no need for a mask until about 2 weeks ago. Now you can't go out without one. I've been working my normal schedule of 5 days a week. I work part time at Home Depot. I'm out in the public. No one at the store is sick or tested positive for the virus. Most us feel that if we was going to get it. We would have had it by now. Our sales numbers are up, and foot traffic has stayed about the same. Starting last Sunday. We limit the number of people into the store to 75 at a time. My county has 67 cases, and 3 dead. 90% of the cases are at a couple of nursing homes. A few are outside of them.

Originally Posted by DaveZ03 (Post 3927881)

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3927812)

It won't surprise me when we find out the covid mortality rate isn't that bad (closer to 1% like influenza) but that something like 90% of the world's population contracted it.

Originally Posted by Zoren 370 (Post 3927569)

No Im not serious and honestly when someone shared me a video of a documentary that speaks about it...btw it was immediately shut down at social media.

I didn’t believe it at all...very hard to verify validity and reliability of all information at this point about covid19.

I don’t even believe the article you posted either..everything is being fabricated.

I just live my life everyday and speak thanksgiving for seeing the sun again.

Originally Posted by FL 4Motion (Post 3927835)

Fair point about Italy, kinda of was a perfect storm with their population.

I still think we’re going to be looking at around 1% - 2% mortality rate when we finally get good numbers at some point. It’s bad, but it’s still not Ebola bad, if it were, half of us here would be dead by now.

Nevertheless, it’s serious and it’s social disruption factor is off the charts. That aspect may not calm down until there’s a vaccine or everyone just gets used to it, fear of the unknown has def played a big role in this as well.

Originally Posted by Zoren 370 (Post 3927869)

Vaccine is definitely out next year...so for now hold tight as this would be long roller coaster ride!

Secure your puke bags!

Originally Posted by bunk (Post 3927895)

IIRC, the virus causes the immune system to go into hyper drive, which causes excess build up of fluid in the lungs. Researchers are working on keeping the virus from attacking the immune system so that it doesnt over react. So the different strains would be irrelevant as far as creating a vaccine, all strains of the virus have this in common. I believe its a continuation of the Sars research.

Originally Posted by cossie1600 (Post 3927936)

Even if it was accident, we need to punish China for being dumb and hiding the fact that caused countless of deaths. They can start with taking away the independence status of HK from an economic standpoint, that would prevent a lot of inflow of capitol. We can then talk about taking their treasury notes after.

Also Taiwan broke the news they are trying to buy up all the rice in the world, likely to extort other countries a few months from now. They are evil and stupid at the same time, I hope people see through it.