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81 people died of the virus in NYC yesterday. I think the large number approach of pandemics can almost sanitize the numbers of their humanity. Imagine 81 peop
by beepboopbeep 7y ago
81 people died of the virus in NYC yesterday. I think the large number approach of pandemics can almost sanitize the numbers of their humanity.
Imagine 81 people died in a bus accident, or a fire, or a mass shooting. This is very serious and we're still at the beginning of it.
- BurningFrog 7y agoLooking at yesterday misses the point. Look at tomorrow! Don't look at the lit fuse. Look at the bomb it leads to. NYC death numbers double in under 2 days now.
- brenden2 7y agoI wrote a comment elsewhere about death rates in the US. 81 people per day is not an astronomical number for the most densely populated part of the country, in fact it's well within the normal number of deaths according to CDC data. In fact, just compared to heart disease alone, it might be slightly on the lower end.
- raesene9 7y agoBut of course heart disease isn't contagious and rapidly increasing. I think if it were, it would be far more concerning, wouldn't you agree? The problem is, as bad as the current numbers are, without significant changes, they are inevitably going to get considerably worse quickly, as you can see from the graphs. Imagine what'll happen if 60% of the US population gets this quickly (over the next 3 months say) and then 2% of those people die with another 8% in hospital...
- loriverkutya 7y agoWith the current rate it’s going to be 2500 death per day in 10 days.
- DanBC 7y agoA stable 80 deaths per day isn't that many, it's only 29,200 people per year. But with covid-19 the numbers of people dying is doubling every 3 days. 80, 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560, 5120, 10,240, 20,480 Potentially Covid-19 would hit that 29200 figure in about 25 days from today.
- drstewart 7y agoKeep extrapolating and you'll find 2.5 trillion people will be dead just a week after that.
- DanBC 7y agoLook at Italy; look at Spain. These are not unreasonable extrapolations.
- brenden2 7y agoNeither of them have exponential growth. The rate of growth has steadily decreased after the first initial spike of cases.
- gpderetta 7y agoThe growth seems to be tapering off after extreme lockdown measures have been taken.
- DanBC 7y agoOf deaths? Here's Spain. They implemented lockdown on about the 7th of March. https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/ 8th 17 deaths 11th 55 14th 196 17th 533 20th 1093 23rd 2311 26th 4365
- beepboopbeep 7y agoThis is absurd.
- steveeq1 7y agoYou can use the same argument for flu deaths, heart disease deaths, diabetes deaths, etc. The numbers that you pay attention to are dependent on what is popular right now.
- mushbino 7y agoThe difference is the rate of those aren't doubling every three days.
- steveeq1 7y agoThis is true and conceded, but that wasn't my argument.
- thu2111 7y agoHmm. This comment got me curious. Using CDC's FluView app I looked at the 2017/2018 flu season to see what the doubling time was. It's not 3 days indeed. It varied quite significantly during the outbreak, but there were periods where it was doubling approximately every week. Potentially faster I suppose depending on how closely people were looking for it (not that close if I understand correctly for most flus). Viruses can grow pretty fast.
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoIt isn't the virus that is sanitizing people of their humanity. They lost their humanity a long time ago, and the virus is simply revealing their nature.