Covid-19 Discussion (moderated)

The latter.

https://news.yahoo.com/billions-hospital-virus-aid-rested-121037704.html

Typical .

US at 6 million cases, and worldwide will hit 25 million by the weekend.  The death rate is fairly consistently 5%, not the 1% some have forecast.

Covid-19 is by comparison an atypical virus. Did you know the H1N1 outbreak originated in Mexico ? I'm just kidding. But what I didn't know is  older buddies have an altered immune response:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/health/seniors-elderly-coronavirus-symptoms-wellness-partner/index.html

(Kaiser Health News)Older adults with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several "atypical" symptoms, complicating efforts to ensure they get timely and appropriate treatment, according to physicians.

Covid-19 is typically signaled by three symptoms: a fever, an insistent cough and shortness of breath. But older adults — the age group most at risk of severe complications or death from this condition ― may have none of these characteristics.

Instead, seniors may seem "off" — not acting like themselves ― early on after being infected by the coronavirus. They may sleep more than usual or stop eating. They may seem unusually apathetic or confused, losing orientation to their surroundings. They may become dizzy and fall. Sometimes, seniors stop speaking or simply collapse.

"With a lot of conditions, older adults don't present in a typical way, and we're seeing that with Covid-19 as well," said Dr. Camille Vaughan, section chief of geriatrics and gerontology at Emory University.

Altered immune response
The reason has to do with how older bodies respond to illness and infection.

A guy who thought covid was a hoax lost his wife:

https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/25/conspiracy-theorist-who-thought-coronavirus-was-hoax-loses-wife-covid-19-13177791/

Isn't the answer obvious?

Clearly, his wife was working for the Conspirators! She was one of "Them."

You are right! How I didn't think that before?

You will never make a good QAnon member...

So umm...  I'm guessing words like plandemic r basically a no no. 

Well I heard on the news today that there was the first case of a person that got it a 2nd time. But it seems to me that I've heard that situation months ago... unless they were mistaken then. Maybe that case was in China and this is the 1st case here.

By the way, I invested in some Moderna stock. That's one of the companies in the leading group of companies developing the vaccine. There r a crowd of them worldwide but this company seems to have a slight lead timewise over the others.

Edit: not sure why that sentence ended up so small when I tried to erase the other stuff. Maybe being on my phone has something to do with it.

Hello,

You might want to have a look at that.

https://news.yahoo.com/first-confirmed-case-of-covid-19-reinfection-is-not-surprising-doctors-say-161255910.html

There are times where the patient was tested, resulting in the "false negative" and doctors assumed the Covid had run its course, when in fact they still had it. And it resurged once treatment had stopped.

https://chessmood.com/blog/how-to-beat-covid-19-boredom

This is reality for you https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/08/31/new-cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-us-had-contributing-conditions/

What is it you are trying to prove though? Yes, maybe most people that die from COVID19 have pre-existing health conditions, but the one that kills is the virus.. 

I´ve heard that the labs which are developing vaccines won´t have legal responsibility for posible side-effects. In my opinion, that just feed conspiracies and anti-vaccine people. It´s bad.

Im thinking that if the companies that r developing vaccines do have legal liability for adverse side effects, and in normal circumstances they would, it would cause delays lasting years.

Apparently the risk/reward calculations have leaned towards moving forward now.

trust me. C-19 isnt going anywhere...anytime soon. and if it mutates before a cheezy 50% vaccine comes out ?...then look out.

The spanish flu took mosta its fatalities after it mutated in the Fall of 1918. up til then ppl were pretty confident that things were getting better....and then kapow.

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The horrific scale of the 1918 influenza pandemic—known as the Spanish Flu—is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims—that's more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during WWI combined. 

While the global pandemic lasted for two years, a significant number of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movements.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence#:~:text=Historians%20now%20believe%20that%20the,spread%20by%20wartime%20troop%20movements.&text=When%20the%20Spanish%20flu%20first,highly%20contagious%20and%20virulent%20strain.

Yeah, somehow it seems unemployment is on the rise everywhere as people are being laid off though. Anyway, vacancies have to be filled by people for unemployment to go down, your logic does not really add up.