“Viruses, including coronavirus cannot live outside the body for prolonged periods of time. Under the right conditions, including the right humidity and the right temperature, this virus might survive on a surface for 30 minutes. And that would be under very optimized conditions,”

So, for shows, just play terrible, unpopular games.

University of Colorado medical director of infection control and prevention

https://www.uchealth.org/today/what-you-should-know-about-coronavirus-or-covid-19-in-colorado/?utm_source=UCHealth%20Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=What%20you%20should%20know%20about%20coronavirus%20or%20COVID-19%20in%20Colorado

Forget it, now the guy testifying before congress says hours or up to a day...so back to covering yourself with alcohol.

Makes sense.

Hard to claim this is all nonsense, fear mongering when people can see in real time what’s happening in other countries. Lives being lost. Government quarantines. It’s a natural reaction I suppose for some to deny reality when they don’t like what they see.

Normal flu has a vaccine and anti viral treatment and is lethal to a small fraction of people AND you usually know if you have the flu. The numbers are skewed because corona hasn’t spread as far as the flu.

Flu kills .1 %
This kills up to 30x that # and is very deadly to the elderly causing lung infections.

It can be mild and present as a normal cold if it stays in nose/throat but can travel in to lungs and turn critical overnight.

We have zero immunity to corona whereas flu, again would have a certain percentage of people with antibodies.

If allowed to spread as much as the flu between this year and next “season” this has potential to kill as many or more than Spanish flu of 1918.

This may be true but delaying getting it actually helps in that the shitty healthcare system we have will be overwhelmed if everyone gets it in the first “wave”.

What data do you have that shows that?

Even if that were true, which I am suspect of, why then would you want to catch it and carry it to “unhealthy “ people?

This stuff is based on 10’s of thousands of known cases across the planet. It’s not some barstool musing by me.

Which is what I said in that post and which is why this is spreading so fast.

It is spread across age groups.

For example, regular flu, say .1% Death rate for a 40’s guy, corona .4%...that’s 4x. As age goes up, along with any other conditions, diabetes, heart disease, smoking history, death rate goes up.

Numbers are numbers. Total cases currently show average of 3.4% death rate.

Don’t be mad at me, it’s a virus.

So if it’s not 3.4% according to pinside, say it’s 1%...that’s 10x more deadly. Again it’s skewed for age groups so do you want to kill grandma because you are tough and can handle the sniffles?

What are you actually debating?

3 people don’t catch those events for each occurrence.

If we linked to articles with experts explaining how to rebuild flippers would that be valid?

It slows stress to healthcare system. Instead of a spike, a gentle curve. So you should definitely delay getting it.

I just figured out why all the we-have-normal-flu-deaths-so-what!!!! posts popped up today....developing

.5=5x.1

Todays hot tip: stop reading the twitter feed of he who shall not be named.

5x more deadly than flu with no vaccine or anti viral treatment. Sorry Grandma! My bad! Hope everything works out, heading to play pinball.

Apologies for being inflammatory

This will not pass through and enter the consciousness of certain people. So sad.

I think the death rate will lower and still be 5-10x normal flu once widespread testing takes place...complete guess.

Those numbers with no vaccine or treatment will make this year and next winter rough.

There’s a hilarious pic of a crane machine filled with TP, not sure if you’ve seen that one

BOOM!

Nba done

Saying this type of thing has gotten me perma-ejected from threads. FYI watch out!

Are they waiting for local government to say no gatherings over xx number people to cover potential liability for costs etc?

I cut way back a few years ago—essentially zero—-and I think I catch less in the way of colds etc. Not sure if I have any science to back that up but seems that way.

I love an optimist! Nice.

Walmart greeter

Reality bites