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Heelyes said:
There seems to be a major difference of opinion on this board and by the public. I don't understand how there are numerous disease experts saying we can expect 40 to 70 percent of the country to be infected and 20 percent of those people will need to be in a hospital and people bring up the flu. I know it hasn't happened yet but it is very possible. This is on top of the regular flu patient. This reminds me of when the professional meteorologist are saying it's not going to snow but weenies on this site say it will because one run of one model said it would.
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Can you link to the specific experts saying up to 70% of the country will be infected? Are we seeing those numbers in any area currently? That’s an extremely high number. That’s 228 million people in the United States alone. To put it into context, Spanish flu was 28%


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Heelyes said:
Even a fraction of that number is more than our hospital and economy can handle. How much is this going to cost?
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If you are that concerned about this do whats right for you and your family whatever that is. It almost sounds like you are craving others to join in and panic along with you. The world's not going to end and the country isnt going to go into the crapper. Just my 2 cents
 
Sandbar said:
If you are that concerned about this do whats right for you and your family whatever that is. It almost sounds like you are craving others to join in and panic along with you. The world's not going to end and the country isnt going to go into the crapper. Just my 2 cents
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The world isn't going to end and I don't think many think that. What I think is the virus will have a negative effect on the economy. I'm not going to get into it in this thread because it's political and we aren't doing that here. The virus will drain money trying to contain it worldwide and the Chinese factories being shut down will show us just how much our economy is powered by China.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
Anyone on the board infected yet?
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I pray (I’m not religious) that I don’t get it. Lime I’ve said before, I lost my spleen in April from a nearly fatal car accident, and I have Stage 1 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. My lymphocyte and leukocyte levels are really good right now, but being immuno-suppressed puts me in danger. This spreads by dividing cells to make new cells faster than normal. These cells also don't die when they should. This allows them to build up in the bone marrow, crowding out normal cells. At some point these cells leave the bone marrow and spill into the bloodstream. This increases the number of white blood cells in the blood. Once in the blood, leukemia cells can spread to other organs, where they can prevent other cells in the body from functioning normally. These cells crowd out red blood cells a lot of times and make me iron deficient. Last summer I had to have two iron transfusions.
 
Jon said:
Can you link to the specific experts saying up to 70% of the country will be infected? Are we seeing those numbers in any area currently? That’s an extremely high number. That’s 228 million people in the United States alone. To pu
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Sandbar said:
If you are that concerned about this do whats right for you and your family whatever that is. It almost sounds like you are craving others to join in and panic along with you. The world's not going to end and the country isnt going to go into the crapper. Just my 2 cents
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You are right and I hope this is the Dems trying to sabotage trump and or the Chinese trying to win the trade war.
 


So the professor who said the 40-70% number is currently trying to walk back and use context to further explain what he meant.

He was speaking if adults only.

He means globally (so a large percentage of those infected I’m sure are 3rd world counties without the infrastructure to handle such an event)

He assumes a large portion are asymptomatic meaning they don’t even progress into any illness, so they just help spread the virus without falling ill.

Talk about assumptions...


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Jon said:


So the professor who said the 40-70% number is currently trying to walk back and use context to further explain what he meant.

He was speaking if adults only.

He means globally (so a large percentage of those infected I’m sure are 3rd world counties without the infrastructure to handle such an event)

He assumes a large portion are asymptomatic meaning they don’t even progress into any illness, so they just help spread the virus without falling ill.

Talk about assumptions...


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Kind of like assuming april will save us
 
tramadoc said:
I pray (I’m not religious) that I don’t get it. Lime I’ve said before, I lost my spleen in April from a nearly fatal car accident, and I have Stage 1 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. My lymphocyte and leukocyte levels are really good right now, but being immuno-suppressed puts me in danger. This spreads by dividing cells to make new cells faster than normal. These cells also don't die when they should. This allows them to build up in the bone marrow, crowding out normal cells. At some point these cells leave the bone marrow and spill into the bloodstream. This increases the number of white blood cells in the blood. Once in the blood, leukemia cells can spread to other organs, where they can prevent other cells in the body from functioning normally. These cells crowd out red blood cells a lot of times and make me iron deficient. Last summer I had to have two iron transfusions.
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I’m a Juvenile diabetic. T1D. Very controlled. As long as my medications are available, I can very well manage. I was one of the lucky ones who was able to realize my mortality at a young age. Healthy or not, we’re all here for a very very short time. We just do the best we can.
 
Jon said:


So the professor who said the 40-70% number is currently trying to walk back and use context to further explain what he meant.

He was speaking if adults only.

He means globally (so a large percentage of those infected I’m sure are 3rd world counties without the infrastructure to handle such an event)

He assumes a large portion are asymptomatic meaning they don’t even progress into any illness, so they just help spread the virus without falling ill.

Talk about assumptions...


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I’d listen to him since he’s pretty much one of the foremost experts on epidemiology in the US.
 
ForsythSnow said:
The world isn't going to end and I don't think many think that. What I think is the virus will have a negative effect on the economy. I'm not going to get into it in this thread because it's political and we aren't doing that here. The virus will drain money trying to contain it worldwide and the Chinese factories being shut down will show us just how much our economy is powered by China.
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Of course it will affect the economy. Terrorist knocked down the 2 largest buildings in NY (symbols of our economy) and our economy came back to life in just a matter of months. I dont think this is anything remotely close to concerning
 
Sandbar said:
Of course it will affect the economy. Terrorist knocked down the 2 largest buildings in NY (symbols of our economy) and our economy came back to life in just a matter of months. I dont think this is anything remotely close to concerning
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No offense but those two buildings didn't impact the global economy like this virus
 
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