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nctnico:

--- Quote from: Bud on March 12, 2020, 05:53:01 am ---I think it will go right back up as soon as there will be positive news on vaccine development.

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Or it turns out to be much less worse than expected and the virus has spread much wider than they are currently thinking.
donotdespisethesnake:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 02:50:36 am ---The only thing I really fear from this virus is the very real threat of a massive global economic depression. Well that and the way people will behave if we ever get a virus going around that is unusually deadly rather than just unusually easy to spread. It's already chaotic and I have a hard time dealing with what I view as irrational/emotionally driven behavior rather than calculated actions based on coherent logic and reason. It stresses me out when I'm around people who are being emotional and I wish I could just tell them to shut up and stop perpetuating it. I refuse to let my life be ruled by fear.

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I can't help thinking of the Black Knight when I read that sort of stuff. You'll be in ICU with double pneumonia, telling people to stop fussing, it's nothing to worry about.  ;D Of course, sticking your head in the sand is as irrational as being unduly worried.

james_s:

--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 12, 2020, 02:02:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 02:50:36 am ---The only thing I really fear from this virus is the very real threat of a massive global economic depression. Well that and the way people will behave if we ever get a virus going around that is unusually deadly rather than just unusually easy to spread. It's already chaotic and I have a hard time dealing with what I view as irrational/emotionally driven behavior rather than calculated actions based on coherent logic and reason. It stresses me out when I'm around people who are being emotional and I wish I could just tell them to shut up and stop perpetuating it. I refuse to let my life be ruled by fear.

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I can't help thinking of the Black Knight when I read that sort of stuff. You'll be in ICU with double pneumonia, telling people to stop fussing, it's nothing to worry about.  ;D Of course, sticking your head in the sand is as irrational as being unduly worried.


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A bit hyperbolic don't you think? Yes, it could happen, I could also be hit by a bus and die or be diagnosed next week with terminal cancer. These events are unlikely though and the most likely result of me contracting covid is that I spend a week feeling crappy and then recover. The vast majority of people who get it do recover just fine, what makes you think I'll be any different? I'm in my early 40s, reasonably fit and healthy overall, I'm not in the lowest risk group but I'm far from the highest. Even if I end up very ill that still doesn't change the fact that most who contract it will recover without complications.

I still remember everybody freaking out about that swine flu several years ago. I caught that, it sucked, the flu always sucks, but it hit hard and burned out a bit faster than most and a few days later I was back on my feet, after 2 weeks the last signs of fatigue had passed. All that panic and it was really not a big deal, not more than the seasonal flu and yet we still have idiots that won't get vaccinated for that.
vodka:
Here , we are more "cachondos".

Here, we closed the Schools and the kids are with the grannies because many parent can't pay nanies neither can't work since home. Now the morest "cachondo" is that the grandparents and the kids are in the park almost all the day.   :palm: :palm: .

And the chinese  in Spain run away to China.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 04:11:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 12, 2020, 02:02:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2020, 02:50:36 am ---The only thing I really fear from this virus is the very real threat of a massive global economic depression. Well that and the way people will behave if we ever get a virus going around that is unusually deadly rather than just unusually easy to spread. It's already chaotic and I have a hard time dealing with what I view as irrational/emotionally driven behavior rather than calculated actions based on coherent logic and reason. It stresses me out when I'm around people who are being emotional and I wish I could just tell them to shut up and stop perpetuating it. I refuse to let my life be ruled by fear.

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I can't help thinking of the Black Knight when I read that sort of stuff. You'll be in ICU with double pneumonia, telling people to stop fussing, it's nothing to worry about.  ;D Of course, sticking your head in the sand is as irrational as being unduly worried.


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A bit hyperbolic don't you think? Yes, it could happen, I could also be hit by a bus and die or be diagnosed next week with terminal cancer. These events are unlikely though and the most likely result of me contracting covid is that I spend a week feeling crappy and then recover. The vast majority of people who get it do recover just fine, what makes you think I'll be any different? I'm in my early 40s, reasonably fit and healthy overall, I'm not in the lowest risk group but I'm far from the highest. Even if I end up very ill that still doesn't change the fact that most who contract it will recover without complications.

I still remember everybody freaking out about that swine flu several years ago. I caught that, it sucked, the flu always sucks, but it hit hard and burned out a bit faster than most and a few days later I was back on my feet, after 2 weeks the last signs of fatigue had passed. All that panic and it was really not a big deal, not more than the seasonal flu and yet we still have idiots that won't get vaccinated for that.

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In general I agree but it still is good to slow the outbreak down so the health care system isn't flooded with people in one big surge. Germany's prime minister (Merkel) already announced that it is expected that 70 to 80% (IIRC) of the German people will likely get infected at some point. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out the actual number of infected people is 100 times more than the current count.
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