or are you saying it because you saw someone else say it

because man aside from a few really out-there articles i've yet to see anything like that, and just so you are aware, no i do not get my information on this from the main media outlets

And further I dispute the numbers. Cdc itself adjusted the death count from 60kish to 35kish. That not a small discrepancy

I DO believe the lethality they're claiming is inaccurate though because there are probably countless people who are asymptomatic or just get over it at home with nobody knowing.

It does not kill 50% of the people who get it

it was an example, gumper

I would bet my life savings on 94%

i was talking about the definition of a term, not the disease mentioned in the analogy

Ok

I was about to lose my mind

yeah no no no

ebolas death rate actually kinda varies

it has been as low as 25% and up as high as 90

And lastly, fuck it. It's a virus. Unless we ALL wear level 4 bio suits for the next few years ALL the time, its gonna spread. So let me get a fucking double whopper and sit in the fucking dinning room!😅

was just the first thing that popped into my head so i used it

the thing is, though

No. No thing

Double whopper. Naked now

Living in downtown of a city I bus everywhere. I miss fast food. Lol

the whole 'flatten the curve' thing is to prevent the virus from getting so crazy so fast that it overwhelms hospitals like it did in italy, for example

it's not to get rid of it

I do like meatballs

In subs

the point is to make it long and drawn out so that we don't get into situations like italy was in

With lots of sauce and cheese

you'll either have an extremely fast and unpredictable burn, or a slow, manageable one

What are we doing different tho?

masks is huge, and i've seen a lot more people using hand sanitizer and washing their hands

I've seen predictions it'll just become a new seasonal disease we just have to learn to live with, like the flu.

And we have better and mkre hospitals than Italy so

like those two factors alone are p big

"better hospitals" arent going to do jack and/or shit when you have a gigantic flood of people

part of the danger of this virus is the hysteria

why is slowmode on

ICUs on a normal day run at 60% capacity. That doesn't leave much room for a huge influx.

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anyways, part of the danger is that when you have a city that gets hit really really hard like New York, you also have a sizeable amount of people who get 2 symptoms and think they have it and rush to the ER. that combined with the influx of *real* patients presents a very serious problem for hospitals

and then you have other things to consider, like ambulances. if you make no effort to flatten the curve and it spreads so fast that thousands of people get it and need ambulances, all of your emergency services are now spread very thin

and deaths from *other* causes will rise too

it's just no good all around, and if you want to play with your health that's absolutely your choice and you should be allowed to make it. but i will also laugh at you for making it

hopefully whatever vaccine they develop, it actually helps to eradicate the virus and we don't get something like the flu vaccine, which only works half of the time(about)