Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Nautilus]

Conina said:

Nautilus said:

You wanna play the number game?Fine, let's do it:

Now you ask me: is 150k deaths because of one single disease extremely low?One that once the cure is found, almost no one will die of it?As cold hearted as it is to say this, yes.Yes it is.

You wanna defend his bollocks "0.001%"?

And it is 157k so far with only 2.3 million known cases. Without these lockdowns / "social distancing" there would already be much more and without trying to slow down the spreading, numbers would rise exponentially.

As long as the health system can manage the cases, mortality rate can be kept down. F.e. here in Germany we have been that lucky so far, "only" every 20th of the closed cases ended in death:

But without trying to slow down the spreading virus (or not doing enough to slow down the spreading), the number of serious/critical cases will soon be bigger than the number of patients which can be treated at the same time.

And when that happens, doctors and nurses will have to "triage" (decide who gets treated and who doesn't get treated)... and then the mortality rate will go way up. Therefore it is in everyones interest to avoid that horror scenario by flattening the curve.

The 0,001% was just an example of how low these numbers are compared to any other disease and problem the world have, as the numbers I gave you showed.I'm not trying to justify anything.I don't have to.We nevber had lockdown for any of these disease that are arguably far more deadly and serious, and humanity is just fine.I don't need to downplay the lockdown, reality is doing that for me.

Plus, the lockdown is far more efficicent than you think.Why do you think that the numbers keep rising even when most countries have this lockdown in effect?Simple: Most people were already infected way before the lockdown was placed in effect.So in this situation you have one family member infected placed at all times close to the other family members that are not infected.Remember, this virus has a 2 week long incubation.For this lockdown to truly have an effect, it should have been put into effect in January or early February, not mid march.But that's just me.