| vivster said: Do you have any information of what "severe" actually means? I've seen that word and "serious" thrown around a lot, but nobody actually says what it means. Not sure where you come from with antibodies. Of course we have none, just like we have none for the new strains of flu every year. We do have other antibodies, though and those seem to be doing a pretty great job at it considering how little people with a normal immune system are affected by it. We're not talking about the T-virus here. We also don't have really effective medication against the flu either. All we do is treat the symptoms and in more severe cases use antivirals which may or may not work a bit. We still have tens of thousands of deaths because we certainly do not have the flu under control. I get that the diseases and viruses are different, which is why I'm not comparing them directly but rather the results and implications caused by them. All I can see for now are wrong numbers that are acted upon as if they were factual. It's cool that we are able to build such strong defenses and measures against this but I'm wondering where this will all eventually lead. If people dying from coronavirus are so preventable by using these measures, does that mean we'll have to use them for every other disease as well? What do you personally recommend in our fight against preventable diseases? |
Severe=people that can't breath by themselves and need ventilators. We're running out of those. When we do, doctors will have to decide who lives and who dies. This is what we're trying to avoid now. Most sick patients don't get hospitalized and aren't even tested because there are not enough test kits. In general, younger people without a serious medical history are just told to go into voluntary isolation. Unfortunately, weak and old people are not the only victims.
Your comment about the flu tells me you really have no idea...the flu virus changes every year, but vaccines are continuosly modified to take that into account and every year the vaccine is different, depending on the expected kinds of flu viruses that will be prevalent. Also, while the flu virus changes, it usually changes only slightly at a genetic level, so that previously acquired immunity and antibodies are still useful to an extent to avoid complications in most cases. The Covid-19 virus on the other hand is very different from the standard flu virus.
What I personally recommend is to stop spreading misinformation and presenting uninformed conjectures as facts. Listen to what doctors and scientists are saying.
