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The death rate is 0.02%, why is everyone so scared of it? Sure a lot of people have died but it was almost always the very elderly and sick. So if you are 20 years old and healthy why would you freak out about it? I just wear a mask, wash my hands, but I feel people are absolutely histerical about this virus. And I hope this isnt the new thing where everytime theres a virus we have to freak out for 5 years.
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Part of the problem, at least in the U.S., is that we have a dishonest media. This is true of both sides. So each is getting fed a line of bullshit. Media makes money when people are outraged or freak out. Couple that with the fact most news personalities have no scruples and you have a shit show on your hands. If people were given the facts and told the truth, at least as much as we knew in the early days, it would have been different. There is plenty of blame to go around. Those politicians who politicized this and continue to do so are no better. And now I'm annoyed at the thought.
How about volunteering in a hospital if it's so chill.
Or you too much of a lazy coward
Not sure people with no medical training can just volunteer in hospitals lol. At least not in the U.S. The comorbidities are close to 3, something like 2.8, 2.6, so it takes having diabetes and cancer and being morbidly obese for it to kill you.
They they take in volunteers, at least in my country.
Even if it doesn't kill you plenty of people have had symptoms like brainfog, loss of taste, loss of smell etc for close to a year at this point. And plenty young people without underlying diseases have been in respirators. Maybe it's time to update yourself on the news, it's changed quite a lot since Mars 2020, pal. Maybe you would enjoy having longterm covid though.
The word "overblown" can go both ways here. 'Overblown' in the sense that the media is using it to generate scary headlines for ad click money? Yes.
'Overblown' as in the virus itself isn't serious? No. I have had COVID. It was enough to make a believer out of me, and there was a decisive moment where I may have been on the edge of life and death. I felt it. It is not the flu or a "sniffles virus." It is not manufactured hysteria to distract from adrenochrome or Hollywood upper echelon trafficking rings. The virus is here and it's real.
You cite a death rate of 0.02% but that's still hundreds of thousands of people at risk of dying. There's a potential risk for them that would not have been had there not been a virus. And a DEATH is a DEATH. That's someone whose lights are going out, who is either going somewhere or flat out won't exist anymore.
We cannot trivialize it. We need to protect ourselves, get our shots, and get it beaten.
One of the worst videos I've seen come out of this shitstorm is a middle-aged American guy - who looked like your archetypal Trump supporter - sitting in a hospital bed gasping out how he had believed Covid was just an over-hyped myth manufactured by the liberal media, but now he had it, and he wanted people to know it was real, it was horrible and it wasn't just the flu.
And then the closing caption saying that the guy had died a couple of days later.
Trump was bad news in many ways, but he deserves a special place on the list of worst-ever presidents and politicians just for the way he trivialised the virus and pandered to those who wanted to believe that it wasn't serious for various twisted psychological reasons and because they didn't want their bottom line damaged.
This twit that's the OP could start by doing the Math correctly. The death rate in the US is 1.8%, in the UK 2.9%, and Canada 2.1%. The total cases and total deaths are listed in the link below. He will have to divide total deaths by total cases and multiply by 100 (provided that he doesn't think mathematics is fake knowledge.)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?%3D%3D#countries
[Note: Bias for unconfirmed non-fatal cases is partially offset by new cases that have not yet produced fatalities. The OP's estimate of 0.02% is off by roughly a factor of 100]
If you don't understand the severity of Covid-19, you clearly aren't opening your eyes.
Are you that stupid? Covid has hundreds of thousands of people suffering from lung conditions, heart conditions and severe brain fog and fatigue. You want to be bedridden for years possibly forever with post covid fatigue or be hospitalized daily for lung and heart issues? Yeah didn't think so.
Use your brain before writing a dumb post. I know several people, I think most of us do who are still extremely sick over 6+ months after getting covid. Bedridden and lost their jobs, constantly having to go to the hospital. Go to hell.
Sorry to hear that you and people you know are suffering from 'long Covid'. From what I've read, this can be awful and debilitating, and it's a feature of the virus that isn't getting nearly as much attention in the media as I believe it deserves.
Something I read recently might be of interest to you. (I can't recall where I read it, but I'm sure it was a serious, credible source, since I don't get my news from social media and I avoid fringe websites.) Some people who have had long Covid found that - much to their surprise - all the weird, fluctuating symptoms that they've been struggling to cope with for months rapidly cleared after they had the vaccine. The immunologists quoted in the article were mystified about the mechanism at work, but they were confident that it wasn't just the placebo effect.
Exactly for some reason it's not getting as much attention when 25% or more of people who get covid have yet to fully recover and may have life long medical conditions.
That I have not heard about the vaccine curing them of this that's good to know but it didn't work on the people I know as they got the vaccine but are still sick.
Has a 99.7% survival chance so... yes.
Now if it was airborne Ebola I would understand the hysteria. Since covid is only dangerous to the immunocompromised and those with preexisting conditions most people dont fit that bill. This is a softball of a pandemic.
The only reason people were freaking out is because China were being so opaque about it and barring citizens in their apartments as quarantine measures. Now that we have all the facts about it, there's no need for all the hysteria.
If I may put on my tinfoil hat for a moment, I think they released covid intentionally to stop the protests in Hong Kong.
As much as I hate wearing masks (foggy glasses and persistent nose bleeds), I have to admit. Not catching other’s cootious germs is a blessing in disguise.
I really hope that when society is at 100% capacity again, people WHO ARE SICK BUT CHOOSE TO GO ABOUT LIFE AND WORK AS NORMAL at least choose to wear a mask then.
The key word being “feel”, isn’t at all scientific or representative of COVID-19 stats. The more you learn, the more your feelings will be more accurately aligned with reality. Educate yourself because there are millions in COVID ravaged regions that would happily be where you are.
Also the current death rate is 2%, not .02% according to confirmed deaths divides confirmed cases on this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Could be higher or lower
The death rate doesn't quate for all those people who didn't go to hospital. I know several people who reckoned to have had it, and some of them probably did, yet only two of them went to hospital over it. Not suprisingly the two people were my very old grndparents who were hit the most hard by it. It's reckoned at around what Lloydasher said, 0.3% because they're are myriad other people who came down with the disaease but just don't get checked in for it.
I think the restrictions are overblown, especially at this point.
But the virus itself? I’m not sure as I think it’s still early to know it’s long term effects. I’ve read the death rate is 2-3%, which sounds low, but remember the dwarf rate for Swine flu was 5% and it was the deadliest pandemic in modern times.
I whole heartedly agree. The vast majority of people who get the virus survive. While I acknowledge that it is a real and serious pandemic, I do think the media tries to install a lot of fear during times like these to maintain some form of control. I don’t think anybody should be afraid of the virus. And as for the vaccine, take it if you want but I can’t stand all the propaganda around it. Let people make their own decisions and don’t shove stuff down other people’s throats.
my cousin's stepdad is literally brain dead. He is a soul trapped in a lifeless body, basically. My aunt cries a lot every single day. She isn't the only one.
After it was weaponized and then politicized its real danger, if any, was lost forever. It's just a tool now to restrict the freedoms of the populous around the world.