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This sort of thing reminds me of a story about the Seattle windshielding pitting phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic

by abnry 7y ago

This sort of thing reminds me of a story about the Seattle windshielding pitting phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi... The point is, often things that are quite common but otherwise unnoticed all of a sudden appear to be an outbreak due to some sort of new found public consciousness. Everybody is analyzing their latest cough and fever so you are going to get a lot more stories of people with coronavirus symptoms even if people getting those sorts of symptoms is quite common (relatively speaking). It's just reporting of those symptoms has increased. With respect to COVID-19, the real sign of its unusualness is the increase in hospital admissions for respiratory issues.

omgwtfbyobbq 7y ago
There were an increase in outbreaks, flu related deaths, and I believe hospitalizations around the end of the year in California when comparing 2018 to 2019. 2018 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/Week2018-1952_FINALReport.pdf https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20... 2019 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/Week2019-2052_FINALReport.pdf https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20... I could be just the flu, but it could also be the start of something else circulating with the flu. Even in that case odds are that something else was not covid-19, but it could be. The only way to tell would be to test blood collected at the time for serological evidence of covid-19.
- abnry 7y ago
  Yes, one of the things we need to do to get past all of this is to widely test for antibodies. I am really hoping that comes soon.
bamboozled 7y ago
A similar thing I've noticed is people want to believe they've had it. My fiends are often often say things like: "Yeah I had a mild fever last week, I probably had it" Which to me translates to: "I hope I got off so easily and now I'm immune and can get on with my life".

by abnry 7y ago

omgwtfbyobbq 7y ago

There were an increase in outbreaks, flu related deaths, and I believe hospitalizations around the end of the year in California when comparing 2018 to 2019. 2018 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/Week2018-1952_FINALReport.pdf https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20... 2019 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Immunization/Week2019-2052_FINALReport.pdf https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20... I could be just the flu, but it could also be the start of something else circulating with the flu. Even in that case odds are that something else was not covid-19, but it could be. The only way to tell would be to test blood collected at the time for serological evidence of covid-19.

abnry 7y ago
Yes, one of the things we need to do to get past all of this is to widely test for antibodies. I am really hoping that comes soon.

bamboozled 7y ago

A similar thing I've noticed is people want to believe they've had it. My fiends are often often say things like: "Yeah I had a mild fever last week, I probably had it" Which to me translates to: "I hope I got off so easily and now I'm immune and can get on with my life".