It boils down to what is an appropriate response to Corona.
Is it rational to clean your hands and take precautions like not shaking hands (especially if someone appears sick)?
Yes
Is it rational to avoid large crowds unless you have to be there?
Yes
Is it rational to be a bit cleaner and wipe things with lysol compared to what you did before?
Yes, you should of been doing that every day but got complacent.
NOW...
Is it ...
Strep throat kills about 100 people every single day, of every single year. If you get it you have a 10 to 15% chance of dying, compared to only 3% for corona.
Unlike corona strep kills people of all ages and those that are healthy. Meanwhile corona mostly kills the extremely old people that are already bed bound.
The hysteria surrounding corona far outweighs the actual threat and is the real danger. Because of this hysteria Italy has closed all schools, millions are missing...
Chris. This whole thing is a pandemic, not the virus, but the hysteria around it.
Italy is shutting ALL schools down. You know what that will do to their economy!? Every parent will either be out of work or have to spring for babysitters. When most of the world's population is at best living paycheck to paycheck what happens when the hysteria in Italy takes a weeks pay from everyone. A weeks food. A weeks medicine.
I'll be generous and say 500 people might die in Ita...
***What is wrong with my logic? your 3 bulltet points don't really say anything.***
They say pretty much everything. The fact is, you're completely ignoring that people don't want to get sick and that even if they don't die from getting sick they become carriers that can lead to infecting many others who are at risk of dying from the sickness (same as influenza deaths, the very young, the old, and those with compromised systems for one reason or another suc...
And WHERE did you get MAY from. Nowhere. Pure imagination hysteria.
I say it peaked in Feb. I back that claim up with
1 Flu season (very similar virus) Strikes hardest from December till February.
2 Daily reported cases are down (peaked at 15k in a day in early mid Feb). Numbers now struggle to stay above 2k a day even though it has expanded outside of China.
Anyone who downvotes my comments feel free to message me and learn how to be reasonable instead of all of you guys running around like chicken little thinking the sky is falling.
@ king.
It isn't the vaccination that stops the flu each year. It is a cycle. It comes from Dec-Feb and then is forgotten by May. With or without a vaccine Corona will die out. Will it return next year, maybe. But even without a vaccine the number of deaths is at 3300 and the number of people who survived it with a clean bill of health is at 55000 (with most actively dealing with it 97% likely to also survive with a clean bill of health).
As for comparisons to Heart att...
@segagamer
YOU are excluding important facts.
FACT
this has the same methods of contagion, symptoms, and "devastated" at the exact same time as the FLU. So it stands to reason that like the flu it is coming to an end (flu season peaks from December to February). Like the flu it has been in a steep decline for almost 2 weeks.
FACT
how a plague level virus works is it grows out of control. example. 1 person has it, infects 2, those 2 inf...
What is wrong with my logic? your 3 bulltet points don't really say anything.
My point is, it is dying out. Like the flu it is a winter virus and E3 is a summer event.
"likely" pop up again. A lot of psychics out there that seem to know things that nobody can know. I don't KNOW what will happen, nor do you... But it is much more reasonable to look at recent virus' like Ebola, Sars, Swine, Zika, Bird flu and assume that this too will fizzle out. Nothing...
When I look at HBO's recent track record. Last season of GoT. Terrible second season to Westworld. Terrible Watchmen show.
I am not confident they can make anything worth watching anymore.
There is nothing to address, it will be long gone by Summer
it took corona a week to jump from 3000 dead to 3100 dead even though it reached America during that time. 100 dead this week to corona worldwide. 10,000 dead this week to heart attacks in America alone.
This month is a bit weaker, not into either game, but luckily last months Bioshock collection is the gift that keeps giving. Beat 1, 2, 3, Minervas Den, and now am starting up the burial at sea expansions. Overall Sony has been delivering tons of value.
Switch and WiiU are of the same generation. Just like the Atari 2600 and 5200 are both 2nd gen, or are you considering the Atari 7200 part of the 4th gen competing with the SNES? with its sub NES graphics.
also, though a bit more nebulous, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast I'd both label 5th men systems because there is no way the Dreamcast belongs with PS2, Gamecube, xbox, and was gone within a year of that gen starting.
NO IT ISN'T.
3000 people have died out of 7billion people.
for comparison. These are the top 10 illness related killers last year.
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, neph...
@JZnrpg
Worry if it mutates, ME, I'll continued to be more worried that wolves will develop laser eyes.
The fact of the matter is, Corona has a mortality rate of only 3%. And that is WITHOUT any sort of treatment available. Most of those are old people that are far more vulnerable. SO unless you are 80 or have immune deficiency it is no more scary that the FLU.
More people Die from the beer Corona than the virus.
To all of you calling him an idiot, he is right. This is nothing but fear mongering. To compare it to the flu last year.
80k+ infected, 3k dead. THE FLU IN 2018 35MILLLION infected. 35k dead.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/abo...
Yet they refuse to make turned based games, and even turn ff7 into a hack n slash
The first one is free, start with that. None require Mts to enjoy (some locked away heroes but I've always been fine with just those included).
Best mobile series. Wish they would make a much deeper game in that style for consoles.
Replace Strep with Corona, and RIGHY YOU ARE. My point exactly.