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Orangeslice13 said:
I actually got type b last year. It sucked. I have since changed my behavior in order to avoid catching another flu. I’ve been doing this for a while so fortunately it’s become habit now.
I don’t wish to push my luck with either. And fortunately my work or lifestyle doesn’t put me in large groups very often.
If more people were concerned about sanitary techniques then we’d all be better off.
But sadly it took getting very ill for me to understand that.
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Our oldest girl got type A a couple weeks ago. She was sick for about a day and got a week out of school. We went through some Lysol but nobody else got sick.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
Me and a buddy took that trip when I was 18 and just graduated HS. We picked up 66 in Oklahoma City and went on to LA. It was a great learning experience. Imagine a couple of young country boy hillbillies who had never been farther from home than Nashville wondering the streets of LA. (Drank my first Coors in Texas)
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Reminds me of a good movie called Dancer TX Pop 81...about 4 small town boys about to graduate HS and honoring a pact they signed to move to LA
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) - IMDb
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
It's about the numbers AND the potential for it to continue to infect the most vulnerable. There is always alarm with infectious viruses. The alarm is to make people aware of the threat. People that dismiss it as some sort of media hoax do more harm. Better to be more safe than sorry. Part of the problem, is this time testing has been limited for months.....the true number of infections and deaths are not known. Politically speaking, fox news blared alarms 24/7 when President Obama was in office. From tan suits to grey poupon to bicycle helmets to Ebola.....
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WOW, what an insightful answer to the question! You are super smart! Let me see if I can ask it a different way. During the last epidemic, the press did not get loose bowels every second of every day, in fact over 1000 Americans died prior to Obama declaring a National Emergency. Again, this was over six months of infection taking place, 100s of thousands of Americans becoming infected. Now, with only 2-3 months into the woohoo virus, less than 100 Americans have died, most that have gotten the virus have suffered far less than with the last epidemic, yet the press is screaming 24/7! There is something going on here. This totally disproportionate response has not been lost on thinking people. No one really wants to tackle the answer, as it might not fit their narrative, and has little to do with the health of their fellow Americans, sad.
 
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Stew Cook said:
What, you trying to cause a panic? which asteroid?

I'm just making a point that those who have a cavalier attitude about the impact that they have on seniors, might ultimately be a little more hypocritical than they realize.
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Cavalier attitude? Nah.

It’s an informed attitude. I’ve been in healthcare for 20 years.
 
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The problem with everyone saying this isnt the Flu, it’s much worse...is that while true, it’s still not bad. It kills more older people than the flu, true, but it isn’t the plague many are making it out to be. For the majority of the population that 30x deadlier than the flu number still represents a fraction of 1%. This thing targets older people with underlying conditions which the Flu does as well. Nobody wants to put people unnecessarily at risk, of course, but let’s not accomplish that by fear peddling.

I’m on the boat that social distancing is good, better hygiene is good, and even closing mass gatherings is good. I’m on board with “flattening the curve”.

However, the panic isn’t good. Buying stuff until shelves are empty isnt good. The media hyping this to something it isn’t is bad. The politicizing of this isnt good.

Stay home if you don’t feel safe. Keep your kids out of school if you don’t feel safe. This is a free country. But, the media and chicken little types spreading fear and political discontent is borderline yelling fire in a movie theater.

We’re going to be fine.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
@I40flyer
this thing has shown to have a doubling rate of every 4 days. At 2300 cases in the us we should know in 3 weeks if all this was overkill?
There will be over 60k cases and Somewhere around 2k dead.
Then it will be freak out time. Or maybe we did all this for nothing.
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WOW-today is 3/15/2020, you expertise with the subject will be known to the entire world if by 5 april 2020 we (The United States) have 2000 dead-if not, I'll bet you come off with something akin to "we would have had that many if it wasn't for all we did...…"
The reason the cases seem to climb is simple, as more and more testing is done, we find more and more people with the Chinese woohoo virus, the vast majority may have gotten what felt like the 24 hour bug, and feel fine, didn't even know they had the virus. We shall know by 5 April if I'm correct or not.
 
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Jxn Vol said:
Cavalier attitude? Nah.

It’s an informed attitude. I’ve been in healthcare for 20 years.
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Seems a bit cavalier to me, that some people believe that carrying on as everything is normal doesn't increase the likelihood that hospitals will find themselves over capacity and understaffed.
 
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