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I am sad about how far apart we're growing as people due to virus that is no more scary than the flu.

AnotherGoodName 6y ago
Funny you say no more scary than the flu when the flu is literally the cause of the last pandemic that killed 3% if the global population.
- triyambakam 6y ago
  Sure, to be more correct I mean a mild flu season, not 1918.
ashleshbiradar 6y ago
you mean to imply covid-19 is no more scary than a normal seasonal flu ?
- triyambakam 6y ago
  Yes. Are we to live our lives always like this now - always trying to stay 2m away from each other?
  - ashleshbiradar 6y ago
    if not keeping a 2m distance if going to get us killed, then I guess many would not have a problem with keeping the 2m distance. Ultimately it is all about survival.
    - triyambakam 6y ago
      This is all way overhyped. The virus is not as deadly as you're being conditioned to believe. It's about control
      - ashleshbiradar 6y ago
        Relax dude, it is a pandemic, we have enough data which tells us how contagious it is, and what needs to be done to control the spread. It's going to pass, here in India, we have opened up almost all zones where there are no cases, and activity is almost back to normal.
        triyambakam 6y ago
        Contagiousness is different than mortality. It seems quite contagious, but low mortality. But I am not in India right now - I am in the US where hysteria is everywhere and they are talking about continuing lockdowns for months longer, or basically indefinitely.
        ashleshbiradar 6y ago
        indeed contagiousness is different from mortality, but think of it like this, if more humans are infected at the same time, it'll overload the hospital capacities, this will 1- make it impossible to ensure proper care, since the hospitals will be overwhelmed. 2- also impact patients who require treatments for other illnesses, since systems will be busy and overloaded with the covid-19 patients.
        triyambakam 6y ago
        Hospitals in the US are so lacking with patients that they are furloughing and laying off doctors and losing money. They never were overwhelmed and would not have been
        vertex-four 6y ago
        Mortality rate for the coronavirus is about 0.3% - the flu is about 0.002%. These are not comparable numbers. For every person who catches the flu and dies from it, 150 people who catch the coronavirus would die. This is with the best treatment we can afford given the current contagion rate - if more people were infected, we could not afford treatment for them, and the mortality rate would climb.

Funny you say no more scary than the flu when the flu is literally the cause of the last pandemic that killed 3% if the global population.

triyambakam 6y ago
Sure, to be more correct I mean a mild flu season, not 1918.

ashleshbiradar 6y ago

you mean to imply covid-19 is no more scary than a normal seasonal flu ?

triyambakam 6y ago
Yes. Are we to live our lives always like this now - always trying to stay 2m away from each other?
- ashleshbiradar 6y ago
  if not keeping a 2m distance if going to get us killed, then I guess many would not have a problem with keeping the 2m distance. Ultimately it is all about survival.
  - triyambakam 6y ago
    This is all way overhyped. The virus is not as deadly as you're being conditioned to believe. It's about control
    - ashleshbiradar 6y ago
      Relax dude, it is a pandemic, we have enough data which tells us how contagious it is, and what needs to be done to control the spread. It's going to pass, here in India, we have opened up almost all zones where there are no cases, and activity is almost back to normal.
      - triyambakam 6y ago
        Contagiousness is different than mortality. It seems quite contagious, but low mortality. But I am not in India right now - I am in the US where hysteria is everywhere and they are talking about continuing lockdowns for months longer, or basically indefinitely.
        ashleshbiradar 6y ago
        indeed contagiousness is different from mortality, but think of it like this, if more humans are infected at the same time, it'll overload the hospital capacities, this will 1- make it impossible to ensure proper care, since the hospitals will be overwhelmed. 2- also impact patients who require treatments for other illnesses, since systems will be busy and overloaded with the covid-19 patients.
        triyambakam 6y ago
        Hospitals in the US are so lacking with patients that they are furloughing and laying off doctors and losing money. They never were overwhelmed and would not have been
        vertex-four 6y ago
        Mortality rate for the coronavirus is about 0.3% - the flu is about 0.002%. These are not comparable numbers. For every person who catches the flu and dies from it, 150 people who catch the coronavirus would die. This is with the best treatment we can afford given the current contagion rate - if more people were infected, we could not afford treatment for them, and the mortality rate would climb.