FrioAg 00 said:

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There are also a lot of folks out there at a BMI of 40, which the stats have shown Covid is very high risk for.

Think 5'10 and 275, or 5'8 and 260. I know of Elgar too many people we'd describe as "perfectly healthy" that fit that description.

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If this quarantine lasts too much longer, I'm going to be BMI eleventy with the amount of beer I'm drinking.

HotardAg07 said:

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Maybe you don't believe that was the case, but our best experts were advising our elected leaders, including our President, of those risks. In that situation, what else could you do?

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I think that is a fair point. Our leaders have to surround themselves with our best experts and all the experts believe this is the best course of action. Time will tell if these experts were right. I'm naturally skeptical of these expert projections as the numbers seem to change drastically in short periods of time.

We're currently at 5,300 deaths in the US. If the projections are right we are facing another 195K during the months of April and May. I think that number is too high and I know we all hope the amount of deaths are a fraction of the projections. Maybe my hope adds bias to my thinking on this topic.

It's seems a large percentage of folks go on ventilators prior to their death. I have not seen, but I wonder if their are any statistics out there that show how many folks are currently on ventilators related to COVID-19? That would give us some additional insight as to how many people may die in the coming weeks.

Just got off a zoom with my English department. Of of our teachers has family in Barbados and New York. Almost the entire Barbados branch has it, and one is in critical condition in ICU. Did not ask if was on respirator because she was upset enough. The most telling comment was that her son from New York (a firefighter) is actually right now in military in the Middle East. She said he is safer now in the middle east on active duty than he would be as a NYC firefighter/paramedic. Her granddaughter and daughter in law in NYC are ok, but she has an Aunt there who is also ill but not as serious as the one in Barbados.

2 through 8. And that is taking all patients out of the equation.

my situation appears unique, but without the current measures everyone on this board would soon or already have the same perspective.

Despite the 2700+ jump in Louisiana cases reported yesterday, which was created by the abrupt release of backlogged testing results, the New Orleans area has actually had 5 consecutive days of flattening the curve.

This is encouraging that measures maybe working. However the problem- it is just a decline in the exponential growth and not an actual decrease. So even assuming it is not just a blip, as seen in several world wide communities, it does not suggest the beginning of the end. So I understand the frustration, especially if your community is fortunate to have staved off large coronavirus outbreaks thus far.

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TxAG#2011 said:

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I seriously cannot comprehend how this isn't getting through to some people. I certainly will not forget all the idiots in my life who have downplayed this every step off the way... they're forever dumbasses.

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Yeah, this whole thing really opened my eyes to how many people on TexAgs that are college-educated or at least like to participate on a college forum are drowning so much in confirmation-bias that they deny even basic math.

It's scary because you know their brain is obviously capable of higher learning, but somewhere along the way something got triggered that made them refuse to learn and instead defend until they are blue in the face.

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This times 100.

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Basic math, forever dumbasses, triggered......

You guys are so enlightened

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2 weeks ago you were saying a few weeks of closures would do absolutely no good (despite the medical professionals at the top of their own profession as well as those trusted by the federal government all saying exactly the OPPOSITE).

You also had these gems:


"this is a concocted panic by people who don't want to go to work."

"I notice that most of those panicking over this are the same ones that are all in on global warming"

"When it warms up and this goes away like ever other flu, I can only hope that people will learn to question new data and also acquire a bit of rationale and patience."



So what is the phrase? Let's call a spade willful ignoramus a spade willful ignoramus.

It should come as no surprise that he burns about a third of his Texags posts on the "Politics" board.

my answer just changed to 8.

The idea that "do nothing" will be less economically painful just won't die. When I graduated from A&M, I had studied in Normandy, taken courses way outside my major, been heavily involved in a church, hung out with people from different backgrounds, religions, cultures, generations. I left Aggieland, still a conservative, but someone who had improved his ability to THINK. It's just impossible for A&M, even more these days, to require this from everyone. It really shows up here.

My wife and I came down with a 102 degree fever that lasted 6 days, and we still have a hacking cough at night two weeks later.

Also, my wife completely lost all sense of taste two days before the fever started. She is just now starting to get her sense of taste and smell back.

I have not had the opportunity to get a test, but I feel 100% better. Wife is working at 90%.

Also, O+ blood type, so maybe that helped.

So, I think maybe I had it, but can't tell for sure.

94chem said:

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The idea that "do nothing" will be less economically painful just won't die. When I graduated from A&M, I had studied in Normandy, taken courses way outside my major, been heavily involved in a church, hung out with people from different backgrounds, religions, cultures, generations. I left Aggieland, still a conservative, but someone who had improved his ability to THINK. It's just impossible for A&M, even more these days, to require this from everyone. It really shows up here.

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I can't decide if there's people are really that dumb, or if they are just total *******s who care more about their own bank account than someone else's life.

AustinAg2K said:

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94chem said:

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The idea that "do nothing" will be less economically painful just won't die. When I graduated from A&M, I had studied in Normandy, taken courses way outside my major, been heavily involved in a church, hung out with people from different backgrounds, religions, cultures, generations. I left Aggieland, still a conservative, but someone who had improved his ability to THINK. It's just impossible for A&M, even more these days, to require this from everyone. It really shows up here.

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I can't decide if there's people are really that dumb, or if they are just total *******s who care more about their own bank account than someone else's life.

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Most people now that I see who cannot get their head around how doing nothing would have been devastating to the economy also dont believe the death toll estimates by every major institution in the United States. It's easy to think the economy would have kept on trucking when you think this is just the flu.

Not a flat-earther and only go to the politics board to get blood pressure pumping. Staying isolated and irate about those who aren't because their keeping us from eventually returning to our lives. Feel like this is a couple months from being over and end of the year before the economy starts to function.

However - I understand OP's original question. New York/New Orleans/New Jersey have been hit horribly. Lots have died, hospitals don't have beds or vents, and you should legitimately be fearful of walking outside just to get to the grocery store.

5k Texans have been diagnosed (.019% ). 90 (.0003%) have died. Our hospitals aren't over run with corona - but everyone is doing their darnedest to stay away. We've posted how may people have died in Wars over our history, first google I got for biggest killers in the US was 2017(link)

• 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, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173

That's a total of 2.1 million. I hope this disease doesn't reach this level - and would be a historical disaster. Will that mean a

Little secret that isn't happening right now with the pandemic...routine preventative care. No yearly mammograms or colonoscopies, no one getting that mole checked out or checking in with their doctors for their yearly checkup. How many additional deaths will happen because of that?

Feel like the accident number should go down - but will others go up? Quite honestly, what are the stats of Covid patients that already had some of these diseases and were in bad shape to begin with? How many had statistical life expediencies of less than a few years? Some sites are giving up to 80% of deaths come from 65+ and I would assume had underlying health conditions in the first place.

I am doing what my government and society are telling me to do - social distancing, etc. Will continue until we all collectively say ok. That doesn't mean that it isn't ok to ask questions and understand more. For many people - this won't hit anyone they know (I don't know anyone personally). Hospitals in Bryan/College Station doesn't look anything like Hospitals in New York.

By the way - fully unqualified to make any bold predictions or stand on soapboxes.