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PlainName:

--- Quote ---I guess is just sucks to be one of them
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Only briefly.


--- Quote ---Sure a lot of people die from the flu but these aren't healthy people and it is highly questionable whether these people would have lived much longer if they didn't got the flu.
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Er, wrong. People continue to be productive when they have things wrong with them, even long-term and quite serious things. On paper I would have been in your questionable class for over a decade, and yet I am still here, doing pretty good and being productive, not to mention of some direct benefit to society.

Undoubtedly there will be more than a few people where some illness is the straw that does for them, but just having a serious or long-term illness doesn't mean you are on the shitheap within the next 6 months.

james_s:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 03, 2020, 11:29:51 am ---According to many reliable reports, the majority of people that get it will get it have no symptoms, or symptoms mild enough not to even seriously suspect they have it (i.e. so that's likely less serious symptoms than the flu)
If it's not the majority then it certainly seems to be a very high percentage.

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That's part of the reason I'm curious to get the antibody test. My partner and I both had something in late March, my symptoms were about 2 days behind hers. Started out with a mild fever for about a day, then turned into what felt like a bit of a cold for a few days followed by feeling extremely tired for around a week. I didn't feel sick at that point, I just didn't have the energy to do anything, I drank about 5 cans of caffeinated soda just to get through the work (at home) day. She was significantly sicker than I was but it was still only a day that she completely took the day off and slept most of the day. Whatever we got was highly contagious because we both had it in such quick succession despite all the precautions everyone has been taking and the symptoms match but it was so mild that at the time I was very skeptical.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 03, 2020, 04:28:24 pm ---
--- Quote ---Sure a lot of people die from the flu but these aren't healthy people and it is highly questionable whether these people would have lived much longer if they didn't got the flu.
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Er, wrong. People continue to be productive when they have things wrong with them, even long-term and quite serious things. On paper I would have been in your questionable class for over a decade, and yet I am still here, doing pretty good and being productive, not to mention of some direct benefit to society.

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Then you are not in the class of people I was writing about. The proof is that you are still here despite several flu pandemics in the past decade. Your health is not that bad.

cdev:
Cumulative exposure to nitrogen dioxide, an important kind of air pollution, may also be important to coronavirus mortality. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151460/


https://www.windy.com/-NO2-no2

Zero999:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 03, 2020, 12:00:44 pm ---
--- Quote ---Also, the optium temperature for corona virus is kind of cool. Hot weather reduces transmission a lot.
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Might we be jumping to erroneous conclusions there? Hot weather means people aren't cooped up in a small room trying to keep warm for so long, and probably spending a significant amount of time outside (which will 'social distance' you even if you're reasonably close to someone just because of the wind). I don't think it's safe to say that warmth is bad (for the virus) just on the basis of seasonal cases - as pointed out previously, your insides are warmer than most environments and it's there that this thing lasts longest.

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Yes, I doubt temperature makes that much difference. COVID-19 has spread to some tropical countries and on board cruise ships, which would have been pretty well heated. UVB radiation will destroy the virus, but it will only make a difference to picking up the virus on surfaces outdoors, so I doubt the UV index makes that much of a difference.

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