So from the various sources we are getting in this thread, the Chinaflu is somewhere between Spanish Flu, and Biblical Hell? Everyone seems to have their own spin on it. Maybe it's the fact the doctors are only getting serious near death cases that changes their perspective. Because if I felt sick now, I'd not go near a hospital. I'd be too worried about waiting with 100 other people that might have the real chinaflu and then get turned away because im not the right diagnosis.
This is way old in a thread moving this quick but I see this a lot right now "I heard.." or some circumstantial evidence for that this virus is basically Captain Trips because a younger person died. You see lots of people commenting everywhere that act like they're specialists about this virus just because they keep F5ing the news like everyone else. On the scale it has spread, it's not surprising that people from all ages develop critical outcomes. It's completely normal. Other diseases do that too. You always have to consider that it a) it looks more and more like this thing has been around for a while, pretty much anyone with any say in the matter is saying this and b) for an
Order of magnitude (please look this term up if you're not sure what it means) of people more than people who went critical, this went over like the common cold and they never even saw a doctor for it. These are the people that don't even show up in statistics. To be frank to you, I am probably one of these people. I had all the commonly now noted symptoms beginning of march. I'm still here and writing to you and I feel perfectly fine. I never went to a doctor. There's no statistic I'm in. It's very likely that I'm not the only one posting here.
It's really hard to grasp the numbers that are talked about here intuitively and they're quite scary. It's also really scary that the thing is just deadly *enough* (but not deadly enough to depopulate entire countries as in Stephen Kings aforementioned book) to swamp medical systems that were not built for pandemics. Then you have the 24/7 news machinery that talks about nothing else, although this pandemic just simply doesn't produce enough information to really fill these 24/7 with relevant stuff. So what do they do? They repeat stuff alot. They report on small details making them look really important in a sometimes confusing manner. They go on endless tangents that really sometimes distort the overall picture. "papers" that barely deserve the name without any filter as of the relevancy, are presented as gospel in a confusing, machine-gun fashion. They basically make the same points we all know about over and over. Repetition ad nausea. People get scared and they panic and that's bad. Then there's people online that give anecdotal information with no connection to it's actual factual accuracy, making the entire thing even more confusing and scary than it already is. Happens even in this very thread.
Yes this is pretty bad. Yes you will see case numbers go up as you will see the body count going up in the coming weeks. The Wuhan Coronavirus is a thing now that is shaping the world forever and no, this won't be over in a while. When you read this, it's also more likely that you're in some place that's locked down to some degree, at least if you ask the local government, than not. That's scary too.
You're not doing anyone any favor by obsessing about it and panicking though. I can tell by reading the posts in this thread that for some of you, your anxiety is probably through the roof. Some people here are breathlessly repeating points they heard "somewhere" then others pick them up and repeat them to the same people back and then both sides get more excited as they see their alleged "fact" confirmed and post themselves in a frenzy. It's like a social virus and it kinda made me stop visiting this thread.
Some of you would really do well to limit news to 15-30 minutes a day, stick to the relevant recommendations regarding hygiene and such you probably have seen a thousand times over by now and just try to calm down a bit. For people fighting with anxiety or depression, in therapy a very common strategy attacking these problems is for people to learn to live in the moment, to learn to focus on what is important right this moment for them and to learn to attack a problem one at a time in the order they appear. I'm talking to the non-medicals here, to the average kiwifarms spergs: You'll not figure out how to heal this virus by googling studies and papers. You'll not be able to do anything about the death count by refreshing pages displaying it breathlessly. Think about what you yourself can do not to catch it, observe social distancing rules then go about this day by day and just watch and see what the next weeks and months will bring. You'll make yourself feel a lot better in this difficult time and that's all what counts and you'll also help the people around you that are afraid themselves by setting a good example. I'll take my small rainbows now.