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Matt2496 said:
Coronavirus is ~2% while flu is around .1%.

Basically, coronavirus is around 20 times deadlier than the flu.
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Oh my goodness... you must work for the media. Anything to stir up panic...

Yes, it would be 20 times deadlier. But going from .1% to 2% isn't exactly a need to shut down the world economy.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Coronavirus is ~2% while flu is around .1%.

Basically, coronavirus is around 20 times deadlier than the flu.
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~2% we think. My guess is that thousands more have had mild cases of it and recovered at home without ever visiting the doctor. That would drive the fatality rate down considerably. JMO
 
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AM64 said:
Face it. We know you love your new forklift.
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Yeah, well, what I didn’t know is that when you do an “equalize” recharge to those lead acid batteries, and there’s 18 of them the size of a car battery - it boils off a toxic brew of H2 and H2S for several hours which takes a lot longer to get rid of the smell with my undersized ventilation fan than the CO emissions from the old propane unit. And the last thing I need is to be storing up a cloud of H2 up against the ceiling in there. So I need to get a longer set of cables and regenerate that thing outside. Funny thing is, after the last time I recharged, after about an hour’s use the LOC (level of charge) had dropped to 80% and after 2-3 more hours use it is still stuck at 80% and I don’t know whether to believe it or not.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Oh my goodness... you must work for the media. Anything to stir up panic...

Yes, it would be 20 times deadlier. But going from .1% to 2% isn't exactly a need to shut down the world economy.
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The Spanish flu had a 2.5% death rate during the 1918 pandemic that killed millions.

I'm not saying that this is anywhere near that level of bad, or that it'll even rise anywhere near that level of bad. I think the hysteria is unwarranted, but 2% is nothing to scoff at.
 
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RavinDave said:
Yeah, well, what I didn’t know is that when you do an “equalize” recharge to those lead acid batteries, and there’s 18 of them the size of a car battery - it boils off a toxic brew of H2 and H2S for several hours which takes a lot longer to get rid of the smell with my undersized ventilation fan than the CO emissions from the old propane unit. And the last thing I need is to be storing up a cloud of H2 up against the ceiling in there. So I need to get a longer set of cables and regenerate that thing outside. Funny thing is, after the last time I recharged, after about an hour’s use the LOC (level of charge) had dropped to 80% and after 2-3 more hours use it is still stuck at 80% and I don’t know whether to believe it or not.
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Nuclear plants after Three Mile Island use hydrogen gas igniters around the ceiling to burn off hydrogen before it reaches an explosive concentration in case of an accident involving cladding damage - probably not practical for you. It wasn't in my area of responsibility, so I never really looked into it, but I heard it used something similar either to diesel glow plugs or spark plugs ... there may have been different systems with some using one and some the other. I've read batteries don't necessarily discharge linearly.
 
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2.5% death rate is bad, but not apocalyptic. R0 between 4 and 7 is also very bad, but also not apocalyptic. Almost as concerning as they death rate is the percentage in "serious" condition. From what we can tell, something near 20% of cases are serious, which could really weaken your immune system and make you vulnerable to other illnesses or even re-infection. If you are infected again, you have a much higher risk of death, but by heart failure rather than lungs.
 
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AM64 said:
Nuclear plants after Three Mile Island use hydrogen gas igniters around the ceiling to burn off hydrogen before it reaches an explosive concentration in case of an accident involving cladding damage - probably not practical for you. It wasn't in my area of responsibility, so I never really looked into it, but I heard it used something similar either to diesel glow plugs or spark plugs ... there may have been different systems with some using one and some the other. I've read batteries don't necessarily discharge linearly.
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I use a little bit of H2 from cylinders for my catalyst testing and there is a bit of leakage, which I haven’t worried too much about. But the amount coming off the forklift batteries is another thing. Regarding the LOC indicator, definitely nonlinear but not a reproducible curve in my short experience either, and the vendor has not been much help on it. Just have to resort to “Evolutionary Operations” which was a term ole Professor Culberson (RIP) who taught our senior design course, used in that course.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Yes, it would be 20 times deadlier. But going from .1% to 2% isn't exactly a need to shut down the world economy.
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If it's 2%, or even 1%, do you think everyone is going to carry on business as normal?

It need not have a high death toll to cause serious disruption.
 
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