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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackCloud View Post
    We'll see how absurd all this is at the end when fewer people have died of it than the flu, car accidents or cancer.
    I don't get the logic. Are you saying that 30,000+ people dying of the virus is OK, no big deal and nothing to worry about so why do anything to reduce the death toll?
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    Don't around 4,000,000 folks die in the U.S. every year?

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    By all means, let's double it. It's only a few million more. Small potatoes.

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    NPS is waiving fees so they don't have to expose their employees to virus-laden visitors. They are also closing campgrounds and otherwise discouraging overnight stays so as to minimize the number of close interactions within the parks. While they do believe (I think) that exercise and sunshine are healthy, they are hoping you will be smart enough to use the parks responsibly. And if not, at least their employees won't have to pay the price.

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    Discrete nod of gratitude y respect to Traveler, as he drops the mike and makes his Exit Stage Left. Well said as always.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    Comparing a new-to-human virus to car accidents or influenza is a false equivalency. Both auto accident and influenza avoidance have baseline mitigation techniques specifically designed to avoid fatalities like defensive driving and vaccination. Curiously absent in these comparisons are deaths from guns, which were 39,770 in 2017, the latest year figures are available, which are higher than auto accidents. Go figure. New-to-human viruses however, once free of any constraints via testing and quarrantine as witnessed in the US this year, do not have a vaccine and can move through populations incredibly fast, overloading medical services, making the first weeks following discovery very, very important, as we are seeing now.

    Apparently the notion COVID 19 is some kind of hoax or overblown by media is still around. Were this to have been handled capably by career professionals at the start we would likely be in a far different place right now. But it wasn't and we are stuck with paying for inept inaction with lives and trillions in debt.

    This is a very real thing, killing very real people, and should be of real concern.

    (sharply executed nod to spectators as I step off the soap box)
    Of those 39,000 deaths, 24,000 were suicide. There's a difference there that relates to your argument...
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    On he Diamond Princess 3,700 people were exposed, 712 infected and 7 died or about 20% infected 0.2% dead, probably about as worse case scenario as you could get, so 62,000 dead. Ordinary flu around 60,000 dead/year.

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    That's some bonkers math.

    If you use those percentages, it's 65 million infected and 650,000 dead. Not counting all the ones with long term issues related to the disease, something which has been common so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TexasBob View Post
    I don't get the logic. Are you saying that 30,000+ people dying of the virus is OK, no big deal and nothing to worry about so why do anything to reduce the death toll?
    If there's about 300,000,000 people in the U.S., everyone was to catch it, and 2% died, that's 6,000,000 dead.

    But that 2% is based on a percentage of people who were ill recover based on medical aid... such as using a ventilator until your body can recover.
    But if everyone gets sick at once and overwhelms the medical community, there's going to be a large number of people who won't be able to get the medical care they need (that's the whole thing about "flattening the curve everyone is talking about").

    So if practically no one is getting the medical care they need, I could see that 2% number jumping to closer to 10%. That's as many as 30,000,000 dead (not just 30,000).
    But if the virus spreads unchecked, the number is more likely to be something like 60,000,000 when EVERYONE

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    Quote Originally Posted by HooKooDooKu View Post
    But if the virus spreads unchecked, the number is more likely to be something like 60,000,000 when EVERYONE
    Yeah, strike that last line as the edit not getting fully completed before posting.

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    since we are doing math here, how about these numbers - population of the earth, around 7 billion - long term sustainable population of the earth 25 - 30 million(fossil fuels would be used at a rate similar to that at which they are generated)

    so that means for every 280 people there needs to be only 1

    we would not be able to sustain the same level of technology (including fast world travel) and of course lighter population density would greatly decrease the transmission of viruses etc

    so there is a simple way to prevent c19 type epidemics

    just line up at your local soylant green production facility (social distancing not required)

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    Quote Originally Posted by C4web88 View Post
    Of those 39,000 deaths, 24,000 were suicide. There's a difference there that relates to your argument...
    They are all false equivalency arguments. The only reason I cited gun deaths is the numbers exceed many of the other false equivalency statistics commonly cited. One can also bifurcate auto accidents similarly to gun deaths by driver fault - hit by another driver or driver hit someone/something. Point remains, both are false equivalencies and not applicable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HooKooDooKu View Post
    If there's about 300,000,000 people in the U.S., everyone was to catch it, and 2% died, that's 6,000,000 dead.

    But that 2% is based on a percentage of people who were ill recover based on medical aid... such as using a ventilator until your body can recover.
    But if everyone gets sick at once and overwhelms the medical community, there's going to be a large number of people who won't be able to get the medical care they need (that's the whole thing about "flattening the curve everyone is talking about").

    So if practically no one is getting the medical care they need, I could see that 2% number jumping to closer to 10%. That's as many as 30,000,000 dead (not just 30,000).
    But if the virus spreads unchecked, the number is more likely to be something like 60,000,000 when EVERYONE
    I used 30,000 because the OP and others are always comparing this pandemic's mortality to flu deaths. I agree that this virus has the potential to kill many more than 30,000 but let us hope it doesn't and the social distancing most folks are practicing helps slow down the spread.

    One reason I think people down play the seriousness of the coronavirus and compare it to the flu is that they probably have had the flu at some point, gotten over it and have never known someone who has died from the flu so those flu mortality numbers are just statistics without a real world impact on their lives. Once some person they know in their neighborhood, softball team, church or work place dies from the coronavirus it will become all too real to dismiss as just like the flu. Unfortunately, that is likely to happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by treroach View Post
    Discrete nod of gratitude y respect to Traveler, as he drops the mike and makes his Exit Stage Left. Well said as always.
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    With all due respect to everyone in this forum,why do the lives of those 18,000 plus seasonal flu deaths seem to be less valuable than the 285 people who have died so far of corona virus?

    Not saying we shouldn't take the corona threat seriously,just saying we should not be nonchalant and accepting of all those seasonal flu deaths that happen by the thousands annually.

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    The idea that no one cares about the flu is both a bizarre unrelated train of thought and patently false.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Five Tango View Post
    With all due respect to everyone in this forum,why do the lives of those 18,000 plus seasonal flu deaths seem to be less valuable than the 285 people who have died so far of corona virus?

    Not saying we shouldn't take the corona threat seriously,just saying we should not be nonchalant and accepting of all those seasonal flu deaths that happen by the thousands annually.
    What on earth does this have to do with the flu, other than both are viral? Are we heartless because we have not discussed the, what, 50,000 deaths due to auto accidents every year in this discussion?

    Influenza spread was ultimately basically unstoppable, and the medical community gave up on trying to stop it, which was semi-ok because at least we have an effective inoculation against it, though the many thousands of death are tragic.

    The danger of this CV19 pandemic is the death RATE, of course, being much higher than that of the flu. As said below, IF CV19 was ultimately unstoppable that's MILLIONS of deaths in the US. The initial repost showed something like overall 2%, 20 times higher than the flu, maybe it's lower, later reports suggest that.

    PLEASE try to watch something other than FOX news for your "information". The mind absolutely boggles.

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