Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

John2290 said:

vivster said:

What do you think will happen? Even the absolute worst case scenario imaginable will be nothing but a footnote in history. Let's be crazy and assume the virus has a 10% death rate, which is more than 10 times of what it actually has. And let's assume it will infect every single human on earth, which is also more than ten times of what it will. So we're gonna lose 10% of the world's population, most of which will be people who wouldn't have survived for long anyway. Now what? You think that will bring some sort of collapse of society?

Maybe it would be different if the virus was aggressive against children and working adults, but it isn't. It's fun to panic but maybe stop once in a while and think about what you are actually scared of. If someone as idiotic and reckless as Trump can't hurt humanity, a little virus certainly won't.

Stress and anxiety are bad for your immune system and you know who loves weak immune systems. Which means intentionally stressing other people out is indirectly killing them even faster. Please don't try to kill more people.

What? 10% of the worlds population is near 800 million people. 1% is 80 million people. Is it infects at the WHOs estimate it's at least 45 million people you are just going to through to the wind and fill mass graves with... what? So we can go on wth daily life and set all our integrity and moral good aside, this will and should never happen. What would be the point if you're going to let your neighbour or grand parents or the pregnant women with a child on the way be put in mortal danger? Can you really live with that so we don't experience a bit of hardship for a time? 

What are you suggesting exactly because I don't want to put words in your mouth, lay out your view of how this should be handled with a 1% mortality rate and at least 50% infected globally, being conservative. Please. 

We, yes including you, live every single day ignoring the suffering in the world. It's human nature because it would be impossible otherwise to live our lives. So don't try to be too uppity about it.

Every single year over 1% of the world population dies, so I'm gonna suggest that we handle it exactly as we handle it every single year. Your big and scary numbers aren't really that big considering that the millions of dead and sick people are being handled by millions of different communities. And then you might say that those dead and sick people are additional to the already dead and sick people and then I'm gonna say that there is a gigantic cross section between the people who died from corona this year and the people who were gonna die from anything else this year. It's also slightly counterbalanced by all the accidents and sickness that are not gonna happen due to people being more careful and hygienic and living a bit healthier.

Nothing about the reaction to this virus is in any way proportional to what it is and to how we handled things in the past, the past being 4 months ago. No one was panicking then that millions of people are gonna die this year.