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"Less deadly than the typical flu" itself amounts to cherry picking. Weeks to months of symptoms, and 4%+ rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 even in the colle
by Zigurd 6y ago
"Less deadly than the typical flu" itself amounts to cherry picking. Weeks to months of symptoms, and 4%+ rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 even in the college age group makes it much worse than a typical flu and capable of overwhelming health care systems if you put people in the college age group indoors in lecture halls, labs, meeting rooms, and faculty offices for 45+ minutes several times a day grouped with different people each time.
This also involves an invalid comparison: College-age students, if they were broken-out by age among flu deaths, would show a very low death rate from flu, and COVID-19 death rates would be 5X+ higher, as they are proportionately for other age groups.
Now let's talk about sacrificing the faculty on the alter of reopening.
- xbmcuser 6y agoEven if younger people are not dying some have reported lasting problems after. We will find out after 1-2 years only the actual effect on the survivors not dying doesn't mean nothing happened
- mrfusion 6y agoWhat percent of infected young people have lasting problems?
- ci5er 6y agoI understand that lung scarring for the "lightly" symptomatic can be ... not insignificant. I know it is for me (age: 55 y.o. or so), and while it isn't being currently problematic, but I have no idea about how it might present in 20 years.