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| John2290 said: I put together a box that'll should last a rationed six weeks and I'm going to add a bit more to it as time goes on. I feel a lot better as this shit is gonna be, if not already, a global shit show, next few weeks is gonna reveal just how far it has already spread and thw weeks following are going to be scary. It's definitely here in Ireland, stewing inside people as our government let a plane full of contaminated people on their way with a warning not to have too much personal contact with people, our health service is socialised and has a hard time keeping up with demmand on a normal month so it won't take the stress. Qauranteed economic catastrophe is about to happen and recovery will be tough until we get a vaccine in mass production, I've not seen something this bad in my life and H1N1 was pretty rough going, this looks like it is agony for half the people who get it, knowing my luck I'll be in the 50% who reach critical condition. I just hope I get it relatively sooner rather than later while the health service isn't completely crippled or stay clear of it as long as possible on hopes of a vaccine as I think the most risk yo ones life lies in that middle period of a crippled health system and hospital staff are at their lowest while sick. |
It's actually 5% of cases that get seriously ill not 50%. If you look at a controlled environment like the Diamond Princess, 36 out of 691 detected cases turned serious to critical. Outside the ship there must be many undetected cases walking around with only mild symptons.
5% won't stop stores from getting stocked but it will harm the economy. The last estimates were that 40% to 70% of the population will get infected eventually, 5% of 40% is still 150 million people worldwide needing hospital care. It takes a long time to recover as well. Hospitals won't be able to handle that kind of influx, socialized or not.
A vaccine that can be mass produced will take 18 months at least, with miracle work, maybe a year. Slowing this virus down for a year seems to become harder every day, especially when governments don't take it all that seriously yet
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
Here in Canada the risk is still deemed low, monitor your health for 14 days after traveling abroad. New cases are bound to turn up.
The US is taking it more seriously
The U.S. CDC yesterday suggested that the risk of a coronavirus pandemic is likely and is alerting the public to begin preparing for community spread in the United States. Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director declared: "It's not a question of if. It's a question of when and how many people will be infected." [source] The city of San Francisco declared on Tuesday a state of emergency even if at the moment there are no confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the area. [source] President Trump will hold a news conference on Covid-19 today at 6:00 PM ET. [source]
