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The younger you are, the less likely you are to die from COVID-19 (great name for a band, by the way). If you have some underlying medical issues or are older, you should be more careful than usual. Otherwise, things appear to be trending down in China in terms of cases. That said, this will get worse in the US before it gets better.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
I think the main thing is controlling the spread of the virus. However this is a serious virus for older people and those not healthy for example those with asthma or diabetes are at great risk of getting a severe case of Coronavirus. Someone can spread the virus before they even sow symptoms of it from what I read. Someone tell me if I’m wrong. That is a huge concern. I’m not worried whether I contract it or not, but I would be if my wife who has asthma.
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It's not so much older people than it is people with preexisting conditions or very weak immune systems.

Just use your brain about stuff and double up on hand washing and you'll likely be fine.
 
Lakers_Slapper said:
Do your research before opening that hole in your head you call a mouth and thinking with that dung in your head that you call a brain.

The flu kills more people per year, and has been around a long time. We have medicines to combat the effects of the flu and have for years.
The Corona virus spreads faster than any other virus that we've seen and we know little to nothing about it.
What we do know, is that it spreads fast and is resilient to methods that kill the common flu virus easily. We also know little about how it spreads and how long the virus stays alive without attaching itself to a host.
Its killed world renowned doctors that started studying its effects. The flu virus rarely to almost never has had that effect.
This virus effects the lungs first and the flu doesn't. My young daughter has a chronic asthma disorder and if she gets the corona virus she will die immediately, whereas the flu she has had twice and survived both.
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You said it yourself there Chief, therefore proving my point. The flu kills way more people every year than this thing ever will.
 
The USA needs to be more like South Korea than Italy in this case.

italy’s whole country is on lock down because one of the best healthcare system in the world is being over run and about to collapse.

The danger of this virus is not how many it kills, it how highly contagious it is (3 to 5 times more contagious than the flu) which can cause a major run on hospital systems, who are dealing with the normal winter illness that keep many hospital system at near full capacity.

If Italy didn’t do a full lock down you would’ve seen the death toll rise quickly, not from Coronavirus, but those with other ailments who wouldn’t be able to get their normal treatment.
 
DasJazz said:
It's not so much older people than it is people with preexisting conditions or very weak immune systems.

Just use your brain about stuff and double up on hand washing and you'll likely be fine.
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You can do all the hand washing in the world, and then have interaction with someone that doesn’t know he’s carrying the virus yet because there’s an incubation period. In that case your going to get it. If someone like Gobert can get it you or I can get it taking all the Precautions in the world precautions in the world. I guess it’s useless thinking an idiots brain works, so why use it, am I right?

Idiot!!
 
Thee jazz fan said:
You can do all the hand washing in the world, and then have interaction with someone that doesn’t know he’s carrying the virus yet because there’s an incubation period. In that case your going to get it. If someone like Gobert can get it you or I can get it taking all the Precautions in the world precautions in the world. I guess it’s useless thinking an idiots brain works, so why use it, am I right?

Idiot!!
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Well you are very clearly showing your idiocracy in full motion so you do have a point there.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
My dad told me the virus is ending in China. And that in a month or so it won’t be a concern in USA as well. I googled it but found nothing. He said he heard it on CNN, I scoffed at that as I don’t trust the news as far as I can throw it.

just wondering if any of u heard the same?
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It is true that new cases in China are dramatically down. Does your dad have any idea what kind of measures China took which enabled that?
 
NAOS said:
It’s so interesting when people report back from the future with such clear takeaways
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I have a pretty good track record of reporting things from the future. I will refer you to my prophetic post proclaiming that Bojan would suck the whole game vs Milwaukee and then hit the game winner. As we all now know, that is exactly what happened.

You just got served.
 
hgb said:
Probably, but for the seasonal flu, a lot of people have antibodies and won't contract it at all, but it's likely that this will hit a lot more people.
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Plus, something like 50% of adults in the U.S. get flu shots but there is no vaccine for coronavirus yet. Plus it's roughly twice as contagious as influenza as measured by the R0 number. So yeah, it'll hit a lot more people unless very serious measures are taken.
 
UtahJazz32 said:
is mudiay clear ? rumor was he had it too but the link was removed
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Wondering the same. It was more than rumors--at least one of the Jazz beat writers reported last night that Mudiay had similar symptoms to Rudy.
 
I'm from Norway, and we just shut down the country today. Really wondering how long this kind of action will be needed for. I can work from home just fine and I have kids big enough to care for themselves, but this is going to be pain for a lot of people, and so many businesses will go bankrupt.
 
hgb said:
While the virus could certainly be dangerous to your daughter, it's not like it has a 100% mortality rate in any population group. Even the worst risk groups have <50% of dying (but probably a good chance of getting really sick).
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The worst death rate now is among those 80 and older with other health conditions and it is about 14% of those infected. The death rate among those 0-9 years is literally 0. No deaths in that age group at all.
 
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