Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Eagle367]

Snoopy said:

jason1637 said:

Even if it slim it translates to millions of death's.  Without social distancing hundreds of millions will the the virus. 2-3% will die from the virus alone and 10% will ve hospitalized but our hospitals dont have the capacity to hold tens of millions of people at once and so some people will die from not getting treated.  Also other non coronavirus patients that need to be hospitalized wont be able to get their procedures and could die from that.

Yeah the risk is low at 2-3% but even with that other factors will make the death toll much higher. 

Only if you're old, an infant or someone with a weak immune system should you stay home. Everyone else can get back to work and live their lives. More than 2-3% of our lives are going to be affected if we don't start working and keep the economy going. Soon, we will run out of supplies and companies will face irreversible damage causing less jobs and the great depression.

NO!!!! HELL NO!!!!! Do not listen to this guy. Stay home. If you do not, 3% of deaths will be a massive understatement and the possibility of millions dying around the world. Stay home and isolate yourself even if you are not that much at risk. Listen to the scientists and experts. If left unchecked, no country will have the infrastructure to handle all the new cases, there won't be enough healthy people left to do the jobs, the economy will be more in tatters, the possibility of most of the healthcare workers being sick and out of commission increases and not to mention, the other diseases won't just disappear. If every hospital and clinic is occupied with covid 19 cases, people with other complications will also start to die due to a lack of care and we will have to start choosing who gets to live and who gets to die. It will be a disaster at the scale of something like the black plague. Seriously keep your opinion to yourself.