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| paulca:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on March 18, 2020, 09:19:42 pm --- --- Quote from: paulca on March 18, 2020, 09:09:37 pm ---https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ --- End quote --- That just confirms what I said? --- End quote --- I wasn't countering either of your points of view, just had that reference to hand in another browser tab. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on March 18, 2020, 10:06:21 pm ---So, yes, if you're not already in your twenties, chances are you just shrug it off. But in every other age bracket, chances are you're in for hospitalization and even ICU treatment. --- End quote --- No. Chances are you won't be. You have less probability of being hospitalized than not being. That does not fit with the qualifier "Chances are." Chances are you won't.... though you still could. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: paulca on March 18, 2020, 09:02:54 pm ---So my daughter is in lock down along with her Mum. Her granny became symptomatic yesterday, nothing confirmed, but precautionary. I haven't had contact with my daughter for 6 days. So not included in mandatory lock down. I'm still voluntarily so for 5 days. I have also reports of at least two other families in my wider friends network, symptomatic, in lock down. Heard the neighbour bark coughing all day and seen an ambulance visiting another house in my street today. People here keep posting pictures from the pub and making light of it. When challenged they get defensive and say things like, "Don't judge me. Sure, people are out there getting it. But if i chose to have a few drinks and enjoy myself I will!". They just don't get it, that it's not "out there", it's right here, it's not coming, it's right now. I give it a week before the shit has hit the fan properly here. --- End quote --- People are weird that way. Belgium went in lock-down. What do you think the Belgians do? The come to the Netherlands to go to the pub :palm: :palm: As a result all the restaurants and pubs in the Netherlands got closed quickly. And I have another problem... I need to stay inside for more than two weeks but after that period I definitely need a haircut. |
| thinkfat:
--- Quote from: paulca on March 18, 2020, 10:30:52 pm --- --- Quote from: thinkfat on March 18, 2020, 10:06:21 pm ---So, yes, if you're not already in your twenties, chances are you just shrug it off. But in every other age bracket, chances are you're in for hospitalization and even ICU treatment. --- End quote --- No. Chances are you won't be. You have less probability of being hospitalized than not being. That does not fit with the qualifier "Chances are." Chances are you won't.... though you still could. --- End quote --- Well, yes. I'm no native speaker and Germans don't have an equal affinity to betting as you Brits do ;) |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 18, 2020, 10:35:43 pm --- --- Quote from: paulca on March 18, 2020, 09:02:54 pm ---So my daughter is in lock down along with her Mum. Her granny became symptomatic yesterday, nothing confirmed, but precautionary. I haven't had contact with my daughter for 6 days. So not included in mandatory lock down. I'm still voluntarily so for 5 days. I have also reports of at least two other families in my wider friends network, symptomatic, in lock down. Heard the neighbour bark coughing all day and seen an ambulance visiting another house in my street today. People here keep posting pictures from the pub and making light of it. When challenged they get defensive and say things like, "Don't judge me. Sure, people are out there getting it. But if i chose to have a few drinks and enjoy myself I will!". They just don't get it, that it's not "out there", it's right here, it's not coming, it's right now. I give it a week before the shit has hit the fan properly here. --- End quote --- People are weird that way. Belgium went in lock-down. What do you think the Belgians do? The come to the Netherlands to go to the pub :palm: :palm: As a result all the restaurants and pubs in the Netherlands got closed quickly. And I have another problem... I need to stay inside for more than two weeks but after that period I definitely need a haircut. --- End quote --- In physics every action has an equal but opposite reaction. In society I think a similar thing happens, some people over-react to extreme levels of caution, leading other people to over-react to equally extreme levels of carlessness. It's unfortunate that it has been so binary, rather than everyone just taking sensible steps like washing hands often and properly, staying home if they are sick or have been exposed to someone who is sick and just generally trying to avoid spreading infectious disease. I would like people to do that with the common flu as well, which Covid is still not even close to catching up to in terms of deaths as of now. It may indeed become far worse but that doesn't change the fact that the flu has already killed 12,000 in the USA and yet we have idiots who refuse to get the cheap and readily available vaccination for that. |
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