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by irq11 7y ago
I’m not sure why you feel like this is an intelligent response, but it shows others that you aren’t worth taking seriously, so keep it up.
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by irq11 7y ago
Over 80% of covid-19 cases have been mild or asymptomatic. Stop spreading fear.
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by irq11 7y ago
There has been no credible evidence of “organ damage” in survivors. These are unsubstantiated rumors. Stop repeating them.
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by irq11 7y ago
”Now is the time to be alarmed.” And this accomplishes what, exactly? Shortages of gloves and canned goods? Being “alarmed” is not a positive choice, even if your worst-case projections of the future turn out to be true.
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by irq11 7y ago
All I’ve ever said, in response to your numerous citation-free rebuttals, is that healthy young people are not at great risk (fact), and they should not panic. So I’m glad we agree. I’ve never said “don’t be concerned.” Your other arguments
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by irq11 7y ago
I am concerned about other people. It has no bearing on my advice to you, which is that unless you are old or sick, you should stop posting misinformation to HN, and go breathe into a bag in a dim room. Maybe play some relaxing music and li
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by irq11 7y ago
The virus is like the flu unless you’re old or sick. These are facts and you are still wrong. More specifically: 0) In the case of the parent, I was saying that the virus spreads and infects people in the same manner as other upper respira
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by irq11 7y ago
People are eventually going to realize that the economic costs of this reaction far exceeds the cost of letting it spread, and things will slowly return to normal. The only real uncertainty at this point is if the HN/reddit fever-dream
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by irq11 7y ago
There have been a handful of infections but no fatalities. This virus is essentially a minor cold in young people.
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by irq11 7y ago
Pretty much any halfway rational response on a covid thread is downvoted by the same handful of people. Don’t take it personally.
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by irq11 7y ago
”COVID-19 is unlike anything before” It’s almost exactly like every other respiratory virus, except that the case fatality estimates for old and sick people are higher. There’s nothing mechanistically new about the infections we’re seei
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by irq11 7y ago
It’s especially important to manage your sense of panic when everyone else is losing their mind. The fact that a simple acknowledgement that hoarding is objectively worse than avoiding large crowds is voted down to -1, should tell you every
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by irq11 7y ago
Your choice to avoid crowds helps everyone, because the crowds are one person smaller. Hoarding canned food from your local store hurts everyone, because now they have less food.
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by irq11 7y ago
No. This is completely incorrect. The case fatality rate is the number of deaths divided by confirmed infections. This is what is being reported. Infection Fatality Ratio changes the denominator to a model for the currently infected populat
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by irq11 7y ago
Sure, but “don’t panic” is not an extreme sentiment, nor does it imply you shouldn’t prepare. Panic over an illness that has infected a grand total of less than 100,000 people...out of 7 billion, is probably an overreaction, in almost every
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by irq11 7y ago
No, this isn’t likely at all. The reason they are undercounting cases is because the cases not being counted are mild . If some of those mild cases go on to die, it’s pretty unlikely that it’s due to misdiagnosed severe atypical pneumonia.
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by irq11 7y ago
It does not have a 3-4% fatality rate. You are either getting bad information, or you are making things up. The latest numbers from the WHO and the CCDC are an average case fatality rate of 2.3%. This is highly likely to be an overestimate,
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by irq11 7y ago
The virus is not “far more contagious” than the flu. It’s about as contagious as the flu, and maybe slightly more deadly, primarily to older/sick people. You’re panicking, you don’t understand what you’re reading, and (assuming that yo
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by irq11 7y ago
So basically, you’re choosing to ignore everything we actually know, and replace it with your theories and FUD. For the record? China is definitely, absolutely, positively under-reporting the infection rate. They have admitted it. They know
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by irq11 7y ago
According to the most recent paper from CCDC, under age 40, the current estimate of fatality rate is 0.4%. Between 50-59, 1.3%. For those with no pre-existing medical conditions, 0.9%: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/artic
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by irq11 7y ago
The distribution is strongly biased toward the elderly no matter how you cut the data; above 60, most of the deaths are in the oldest cohort.
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by irq11 7y ago
I provided a link to “actual evidence” in the post. Read it instead of posting rumor and opinion as fact. Nobody said you “shouldn’t worry” about a virus that kills old people. But if you’re not old or sick, you should worry about it less t
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by irq11 7y ago
Thankfully, this is a relatively mild virus. Part of what makes it hard to detect is that most cases (>80%) are mild, and many are actually asymptomatic: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/a
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by irq11 7y ago
The fatality rate is on par with the flu, except in older patients (over 60) where it is currently higher. Ironic that you should bring up flu vaccination...despite the risk of death from flu being the average person’s greater concern (by
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by irq11 7y ago
It is not. You are making up “facts” and need to stop. This virus disproportionately kills old and sick people. Aside from the fact that over 80% of cases are mild, the death rate in patients under 60 is well under 1%: https://
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by irq11 7y ago
You’re making a lot of assumptions. Sure, if the reported death rate is correct (it isn’t; it’s going to end up much lower), and the medical system in Wuhan is up to first-world standards (it isn’t; they’ve had to scramble to build halfway
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by irq11 7y ago
It is about as contagious as the flu. Stop fear-mongering. Also, not for nothing: most people don’t get the flu vaccine, despite endless begging on the part of health officials.
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by irq11 7y ago
Yeah, you’re exaggerating. I work in the same industry you do, for longer than you have. These tests are ubiquitous. If you honestly haven’t hit them, you’re a unicorn.
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by irq11 7y ago
...in 1918. When we didn’t have things like antibiotics or mechanical ventilators (or even a solid grasp on germ theory). Non-adjusted comparisons to medical outcomes in 1918 are useless. (pre-empting the criticism: antibiotics absolutely m
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by irq11 7y ago
News you can use: you’re living through multiple pandemics , all the time. There’s a flu pandemic (several, actually), that are far more immediately threatening to you than this virus. Society has not yet fallen.

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