Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

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https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/24/12-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/

$2T to save businesses, reduce unemployment and mitigate pain of citizens. Won’t it be cheaper to house all positives separately* from the rest and allow life to go on?

*serious - hospitalization
*mild - some isolation facility, must look and feel better than prison :slight_smile: Singapore uses holiday resort chalet :grin:

Experts are wearing logical hats like @pandeyathotmail Genie is out of the box. Doesn’t matter whether is justified to panic or not. People are very scared. Deal with this panic NOW.

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New York
Confirmed cases = 37258
Total capacity of hotels around 50k-80k, enough to house every mild confirmed cases

List of hotels with >500 rooms

A post was merged into an existing topic: Chloroquine and COVID-19

21 posts were merged into an existing topic: Chloroquine and COVID-19

WHO = POS

This thread should belong in the politics thread just like the “immigration” thread.

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Human experiment of herd immunity:

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he might fake it though, few days later come out as superman saying this is just a flu,no need to scare

I always thought karma is for losers but this is a prime example of when it hits you like a hurricane.

Not necessarily real estate but a good place to talk finance/indexing, consumer financial issues, and other topics is Bogleheads.org - Index page .
The moderators do a great job in shutting down anything out of scope of the forum.

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The panic is worst than the virus. One million die every year in the US. 20-60k die of flu. Many more from pneumonia. Old people die everyday from pneumonia. It is pneumonia that kills most covid19 victims. Does the CDC distinguish between the causes?. How many more cases of pneumonia and fatalities are occuring above an average year. What is the progression from flu to pneumonia? Without these baseline statistics the dead count hysteria is being exaggerated.

If the flu killed more people in the last few years, why are hospitals overwhelmed this year?

My dad died in a rest home from pneumonia in 2001. He was old frail and had been in the rest home for three years. His living will said do not resuscitate. We were not allowed to ask for all the extraordinary life saving machines they have today.

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Flu usually doesn’t require hospitalization and doesn’t require ventilator.

Yes but is does often cause pneumonia. It helped give my mother a fatal heart attack. Flu is deadly when you are old and frail. It may have killed both my parents. They died within 21 days of each other from probably the same flu in 2001. She probably gave to my dad since he was bedridden and she was exposed to it during winter flu season. Of course we all thought it was just a bad cold.

I created a new chloroquine thread and moved the related posts over there. Please continue your chloroquine discussions on that thread.

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I think it was explained by Dr Fauci. This year, flu is more severe. So hospitals are nearing overwhelmed. Coronavirus is like a hair on the camel back, threatening to breakdown the healthcare system. Also, he said that it is better to over-react than to regret that it has under-react. His priority is to save life, he is not a politician nor an economist, political and economic cost doesn’t go into his calculation. I defer to you to agree or disagree with his opinion.

I think a lot of elderly like my dad were basically left to die in the past. Btw, it was what he wanted. Pneumonia is known as the old mans friend. Callous as it sounds many older patients are given do not resuscitate instructions all the time. Personally like my dad I don’t want invasive extraordinary life saving measures when I am old and infirm.
Unfortunately our healthcare system may have to make these triage decisions soon enough.