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Buy extra food so if you get sick you don't have to go out and infect other people, or if you are in an area with a lot of sick people you don't have to go out
by WillPostForFood 7y ago
Buy extra food so if you get sick you don't have to go out and infect other people, or if you are in an area with a lot of sick people you don't have to go out to bu food and get infected.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat's a socially-conscious act and I applaud it. But in truth, before this is over every person on earth will have experienced the virus. The reason to control the spread and delay infection (not avoid it; that's probably impossible) is to allow the health-care infrastructure critical time to manage the flow of sick. If we all got sick at once, there'd be no capacity to treat 99.9% of us. If we spread it out over a year or more, we can treat more people and have a better outcome.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoThat's not typically how it works. Historical pandemics have only infected about 30% of the population.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThis one is air-borne with many days of no initial symptoms. That's the whole deal right there, why this is especially problematic.
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- 0xffff2 7y agoThis is not correct. The virus is not airborne.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoCarried in a sneeze or cough? What do we call it then?
- 0xffff2 7y agoAerosolized. The difference is important because the aerosolized virus only survives in the bodily fluids expelled by the sneeze/cough, which gives it a much, much shorter range than if it was actually airborne, which would imply that the virus could survive long enough to spread without the need for a bodily fluid to host it.