Corona Virus #5

[Jstpssng]

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He also routinely avoids that this is just ramping up; whereas the flu has been established in some variation for a long time. In one of the previous CV threads a poster compared this to our AmerIndians and the new sicknesses which our ancestors brought from Europe.

 

[Dutch445]

seems many of our leaders in the know are going to benefit from this, sell high, buy low...
sad

 

[Jstpssng]

They may get what's coming to them though. There are laws against that very thing.

 

[sd455dan]

Quick question. Why are all of our infection projections in the 50-150+ million US citizens, when China seems to hold steady at ~86K cases with a population over 3 times ours? I know we're not quarantining as seriously as China was (yet), but I don't get how these numbers are extrapolated over time unless they're basically saying that China's #'s will go back up once the quarantine is lifted.

China BUILT Temporary Emergency ICU Hospitals in record Time.

They tested and then Isolated Infected People Immediately-ie Quarantined.

The Number 1 way the Infections spread was thru Family Clusters...



The next 2 spots on earth that this Virus may be very hard to control is India and Africa

Sub Saharan Africa has almost no testing and very limited health Care.

India's population about 1.4 Billion

 

[ovrszd]

Oh, I understand all of that. I am very worried about the economy. To put it into prospective, the worldwide death's are just over 10,000. That is a drop in the bucket. nearly a statistical blip. I just wonder if we are going overboard. As I write this I have a sore throat and had chills yesterday. Who knows...

Yeah, maybe one of the members that knows they are much smarter than me can give us that number in percentages?? What percent of the World population has contracted this Virus? What percent of the World population has died from it?

 

[ovrszd]

Yesterday I had two FEMA representatives in my shop. Spent the day with them visiting damage sites. They wouldn't shake my hand, against the rules. Wouldn't ride in my vehicle, against the rules. Used my bathroom. Sat at a table with me while we passed paperwork back and forth. They were only concerned about me transmitting the virus to them. They were the only two people I had contact with yesterday beyond my wife. Which of us should have been concerned?

Every little bit helps. I understand that. But sometimes it gets a bit silly.

 

[two_bit_score]

How It All Started: China’s Early Coronavirus Missteps - WSJ

 

[k0ua]

Yeah, maybe one of the members that knows they are much smarter than me can give us that number in percentages?? What percent of the World population has contracted this Virus? What percent of the World population has died from it?

Well that wouldn't be too hard to figure out. lets see, Total world population (all figures rounded off for simplicity)

7,700,000,000 total who have contracted the disease: 250,000 So .0032% have contracted it In words. 3 thousandths of 1 percent

Again 7,700,000,000/10,000 so .00012% have died from it. So 1 ten thousandth of 1 percent
So

 

[ovrszd]

Well that wouldn't be too hard to figure out. lets see, Total world population (all figures rounded off for simplicity)

7,700,000,000 total who have contracted the disease: 250,000 So .0032% have contracted it In words. 3 thousandths of 1 percent

Again 7,700,000,000/10,000 so .00012% have died from it. So 1 ten thousandth of 1 percent
So

Good work James!!!!

Now you are going to get chastised for depriving a few of the opportunity to ridicule my intelligence.

 

[k0ua]

Of course I believe but cannot prove that the 250,000 number is way way low. i believe that number is low by a LEAST an order of magnitude and maybe 2 orders of magnitude or MORE. In other words I believe that world wide from 2.5 million to 25 million people worldwide. have had and/or have this disease. I the US, I believe the same: So from the 14,000 confirmed cases I believe we actually have from 140,000 to 1.4 million actual cases in the US right now. Again, I could be totally FOS. I have been accused of that before and it has been true before. But it is what I believe.

 

[k0ua]

Good work James!!!!

Now you are going to get chastised for depriving a few of the opportunity to ridicule my intelligence.

Well, we do what we can

 

[ovrszd]

Of course I believe but cannot prove that the 250,000 number is way way low. i believe that number is low by a LEAST an order of magnitude and maybe 2 orders of magnitude or MORE. In other words I believe that world wide from 2.5 million to 25 million people worldwide. have had and/or have this disease. I the US, I believe the same: So from the 14,000 confirmed cases I believe we actually have from 140,000 to 1.4 million actual cases in the US right now. Again, I could be totally FOS. I have been accused of that before and it has been true before. But it is what I believe.

I agree. Just as is the case with Influenza or any other virus. Data only reflects the numbers reported. You or I may be carrying this now but if we don't get sick enough to go to the Doctor we'll never know.

 

[newbury]

I haven't heard anything about shutting the Mexico border?

Well they just announced it.
Trump administration limits non-essential travel between US and Mexico - CNNPolitics

Regarding Senate head of intel selling stock

They may get what's coming to them though. There are laws against that very thing.

They know the laws and have skirted around them.

 

[hawkeye08]

This virus seems to have exposed the worst in some people.. I choose to believe we will get through this. There are some innovative methods being worked on to combat the virus, that can be applied to other virus strains also.. it will be some time before this gets sorted out.

 

[two_bit_score]

Well they just announced it.
Trump administration limits non-essential travel between US and Mexico - CNNPolitics

Regarding Senate head of intel selling stock

They know the laws and have skirted around them.

They use a “blind trust”.

 

[Jstpssng]

Well that wouldn't be too hard to figure out. lets see, Total world population (all figures rounded off for simplicity)

7,700,000,000 total who have contracted the disease: 250,000 So .0032% have contracted it In words. 3 thousandths of 1 percent

Again 7,700,000,000/10,000 so .00012% have died from it. So 1 ten thousandth of 1 percent
So

Now put it in terms of what percantage it痴 growing.

 

[shooterdon]

I agree. Just as is the case with Influenza or any other virus. Data only reflects the numbers reported. You or I may be carrying this now but if we don't get sick enough to go to the Doctor we'll never know.

Partially correct. With regular flu we have the symptoms when we are infectious. This seems to be different. It can be transmitted even if someone does not show any effects.

The next four weeks will fill in a lot of the blanks we have.

I wish we could trust the numbers out of China...they were at the forefront of this and have the most knowledge. But they have little incentive to help us and it is difficult to trust them.

 

[California]

Regarding Senate head of intel selling stock

They know the laws and have skirted around them.

I thought anyone serving in Congress has an absolute right to make investment decisions based on insider information without penalty. Has this law changed?