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| nctnico:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 19, 2020, 10:08:35 pm ---Well since I'm in the US I can't just dismiss that, but don't think for a moment that a catastrophic depression couldn't devastate other developed nations. We have a global economy with everything intertwined now. --- End quote --- The problem I see is that the large amount of poor people in the US will drag the country down. Both in virus infections and possibly even riots. For the US this can turn out to be the most perfect (worst) storm ever. The only light at the end of the tunnel for the US is that Poetin is such an a-hole otherwise Europe would be doing much more business with Russia and not need the US so much. In Europe most countries have social security and are in better financial shape compared to the US. AFAIK even in this time of crisis the Netherlands gets a negative interest on loans. This makes it possible for the Dutch government to keep the entire country flush with money during this crisis so no jobs are lost. |
| not1xor1:
here is the story of Italian patient one, 38 years old and fit, not affected by any other disease... just like flue... https://translate.google.it/translate?hl=it&tab=wT&sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmilano.corriere.it%2Fnotizie%2Fcronaca%2F20_marzo_19%2Fritorno-vita-mattia-paziente-uno-codogno-san-matteo-pavia-vedro-nascere-mia-bambina-b3d2265c-6a14-11ea-a8a1-df48c20e9d2e.shtml BTW it is almost one month and he's still at the hospital although he's likely to be released soon |
| engrguy42:
I think if folks do some research on SARS and MERS and the other coronaviruses from previous years you'll find that once you lock down transmission they kind of die of their own accord. No vaccines, they just die out. No SARS cases since 2004, and very few MERS cases. And has been said they were much worse in terms of % of infected people who ended up dying. I recall reading that SARS died out in around 6 months (?). Unfortunately there isn't much detail I can find on exactly why they just whithered away (and probably wouldn't understand the medical details anyway), but they did. And they're all similar to COVID-19 in terms of being coronaviruses. So again, if you want to be fearful then be my guest. But I prefer to look for facts, and be overly cautious, not fearful, in cases like this. |
| iMo:
Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1 --- Quote ---CONCLUSION People with blood group A have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O has a significantly lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups. --- End quote --- |
| Nominal Animal:
BTW, the abbreviation for influenza is flu. A flue is an opening or a pipe or a duct in a chimney. We who do mostly read and write English (as opposed to speaking and listening to it) find it hard to keep up when we must sound out the words in our mind. |
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