Well, the doctor says as many as 200,000 Americans could die of the ChiCom Flu.
Hmmm...over 600,000 Americans die every year of heart problems. Another 600,000 die of cancer. About 720,000 die of diabetes, falls at home, auto accidents, infections acquired at hospitals, suicide, and other stuff.
Just 10 diseases account for almost three-quarters of all deaths in the U.S. Heart disease is the biggest killer, followed by cancer, then chronic lower respiratory disease. The tenth disease on the list is suicide. This article looks at the facts and figures and asks whether any of these...
www.medicalnewstoday.com
And the CDC says since 29 September 2019 there have been 39,000,000 cases of the "regular" flu, with 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 dead.
A weekly influenza surveillance report prepared by the influenza division.
www.cdc.gov
Taking all this into consideration, I fail to see why we need large-scale "shelter-in-places". Do this only for the areas with the most cases. These areas seem to be more apparent every day. Just go ahead and do it. Get the country going again. Pretty soon people will just start ignoring these orders anyway.
Yes people die every day. And yes heart disease and cancer, pneumonia, organ failure, accidents and violence, every hour, of every day.
But the overwhelming majority of us have either a basic level of immunity to the pathogens, and they are predictably survivable for the vast majority. Or people have their own personal risk factors for dying of heart disease. Cancer strikes like russian roulette, from a public health standpoint, unless cases show up in statistically significant numbers in a particular zone.
This thread has over a thousand pages of people describing, for better or for worse, protective measures that their jurisdictions are taking. While none of us except for a couple, are infectious disease experts, biochemists, pathologists or some other kind of specialized nerd, most folks seem to "get it" that this disease is deadly.
1171 pages of anger and doubt and frustration about how this has been managed. But NOBODY is enthusiastic right now about opening up all restrictions and letting people sicken and die for the sake of the almighty dollar. My level of enthusiasm is just about 0, when I think about the American worker being thrusted back into the workplace for non-essential business, because that is a death sentence for a significant portion of them.
It is all going to be fun and games, until you bring this virus home from grocery stores, and you or one of your kids or grandkids either become painfully ill, and recover with crap lung and kidney function, face a lifetime of reproductive sterility, or die. I am not sure what it will take, to get you to get on the same page, with the rest of the world.
People are NOT blowing off the stay at home orders, because they somehow got the memo, that this virus maims and kills and if it sickens enough people, there will be a mass trench dug outside of communities where they will start tossing bodies.
It is easy for you to sacrifice others for the sake of America #1 but others don't seem to be readily volunteering.
If you can't, at this point, take the concepts of "infectious disease" and "global pandemic" seriously, then go ahead and blow off the stay at home orders. In fact, book a trip on a cruise ship for you and your loved ones. Tickets are probably at an all time low. But first fly to New York or Miami, to port. That will get you out of this liberal-infested police state, California.
Cold war has been over for 30 years. This is a pandemic. Everybody is going to lose something. That is life.
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