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Post by Telso on Mar 4, 2020 19:52:46 GMT 10
3.000 dead for 90.000 confirmed infected so far, that's a mere 3.3%. Pretty much as many lives in percentage as the influenza virus claims every year. Not to mention the parade of other far more devastating viruses.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 4, 2020 20:36:10 GMT 10
I'll be honest, when I first heard about coronavirus back in January, I never would have expected it to escalate into anything more than the isolated cases in China. I really didn't see it as being a cause for alarm. However, now we are hearing reports of people who have contracted the virus from human-to-human transmission without travelling abroad and that in itself is genuinely concerning. What's also particularly frightening about coronavirus is that the symptoms of it are indistinguishable to those associated with the flu. Is the government going to start quarantining people who cough or sneeze? As ridiculous as it sounds, I could definitely see it becoming a reality if a treatment isn't made available soon and cases continue to rise. This is a serious concern. We're talking about something that could kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly millions. It has got me worried. Not that I go on trains or shopping centres regularly, but i'm going to try and avoid them as much as possible. Any crowded area for that matter.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2020 21:58:12 GMT 10
3.000 dead for 90.000 confirmed infected so far, that's a mere 3.3%. Pretty much as many lives in percentage as the influenza virus claims every year. Not to mention the parade of other far more devastating viruses. Correction: The background mortality rate of the influenza virus is approximately 0.6-0.7%. This is quite a bit higher. For comparison, the Spanish Flu, which killed 40 million around the world, had a mortality rate of 2–3% as well. Apparently the U.S. and China are doing a post-WWI LARP during the middle of all of this, because the government's responses in both of those countries neatly resembles that of world governments from over a hundred years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 0:41:20 GMT 10
3.000 dead for 90.000 confirmed infected so far, that's a mere 3.3%. Pretty much as many lives in percentage as the influenza virus claims every year. Not to mention the parade of other far more devastating viruses. If the mortality rate of influenze was 3.3% I would be dead twice by now. I get flu every year. It's closer to 0.1%.
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Post by Telso on Mar 7, 2020 9:56:27 GMT 10
3.000 dead for 90.000 confirmed infected so far, that's a mere 3.3%. Pretty much as many lives in percentage as the influenza virus claims every year. Not to mention the parade of other far more devastating viruses. Correction: The background mortality rate of the influenza virus is approximately 0.6-0.7%. This is quite a bit higher. For comparison, the Spanish Flu, which killed 40 million around the world, had a mortality rate of 2–3% as well.. Oops, I was indeed totally wrong on that flu number. I swear I had read 3% somewhere before, but it was probably an outdated or localized number. The Spanish Flu killed more than 50 million actually, which represented 3% of the world population back then, so not even relative to the total of infected. Covid-19 will have to kill off 210 million nowadays to reach those same proportions. 3.000 dead for 90.000 confirmed infected so far, that's a mere 3.3%. Pretty much as many lives in percentage as the influenza virus claims every year. Not to mention the parade of other far more devastating viruses. If the mortality rate of influenze was 3.3% I would be dead twice by now. I get flu every year. It's closer to 0.1%. Statistically speaking, mortality rate doesn't mean your chances to die from it, but how many would hypothetically succumb if a disease is introduced in a population. Usually it's the elderly, children and immunodeficient people that make up the majority of the mortality group.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 7, 2020 20:30:04 GMT 10
Yeah, this is what it has come to here in Australia, people fighting over toilet rolls due to the coronavirus...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 23:11:21 GMT 10
Yeah, this is what it has come to here in Australia, people fighting over toilet rolls due to the coronavirus... at least one Australian family is sorted with ample toilet rolls 
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 7, 2020 23:15:57 GMT 10
Yeah, this is what it has come to here in Australia, people fighting over toilet rolls due to the coronavirus... at least one Australian family is sorted with ample toilet rolls Wow, I really don't know how anyone could make the mistake of ordering 2,300 toilet rolls! I know what I would be doing if I had that many, selling most of them off and making money off of it.  Welcome to Popedia by the way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 11:47:12 GMT 10
In times of crisis, Italians buy pasta, Americans buy guns and Australians buy toilet paper. Taking "shit hit the fans" a bit too literally I think!
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 8, 2020 12:16:24 GMT 10
In times of crisis, Italians buy pasta, Americans buy guns and Australians buy toilet paper. Taking "shit hit the fans" a bit too literally I think! Lol, it's ridiculous isn't it. Wouldn't you think that people would be wanting to stock up on more essential items such as milk or canned foods?
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Post by al on Mar 8, 2020 14:44:47 GMT 10
Lol, it's ridiculous isn't it. Wouldn't you think that people would be wanting to stock up on more essential items such as milk or canned foods? Maybe they just don't understand it's not that kind of flu lmao. Here I am feeling like a total uncultured swine right now. I really didn't think anyone outside 'Murica got into pointless fights in supermarket aisles. Wow.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 8, 2020 14:54:45 GMT 10
Lol, it's ridiculous isn't it. Wouldn't you think that people would be wanting to stock up on more essential items such as milk or canned foods? Maybe they just don't understand it's not that kind of flu lmao. Here I am feeling like a total uncultured swine right now. I really didn't think anyone outside 'Murica got into pointless fights in supermarket aisles. Wow. Yeah, lol. I can't speak for all countries of course, but it's completely unheard of here. You very rarely (if ever) hear about it on the news or on social media.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 15:26:07 GMT 10
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Post by al on Mar 8, 2020 15:29:07 GMT 10
Yeah, lol. I can't speak for all countries of course, but it's completely unheard of here. You very rarely (if ever) hear about it on the news or on social media. I want a peopleofaustralia.com to document all this though I'll probably be let down after the supply chain catches back up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 15:45:34 GMT 10
The worst part of this whole toilet paper/hand sanitiser/other products panic buying frenzy is that the most vulnerable people (the elderly, sick, disabled, etc.) in our society are being cut off from such essential goods.
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