The TC Jester said:
Duncan Idaho said:
You shouldn't have to fear the virus, but the problem is that too large of a group doesn't respect the virus (e.g. the flumers, certain members of the national leadership).
If everyone respected the virus, there wouldn't be anything to fear.
Meh, me and the wife had it and so did 6-7 of our friends...all approaching 40. It wasn't nearly as bad as the flu...and bordered on asymptomatic for most of us. If I was morbidly obese with purple fluid logged ankles I'd respect the virus. But it's hard to take seriously when (a) I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has died from it, (b) me and everyone I know had such an easy time with it,
This is clearly worse than the flu. I believe Marcus had the best comparison in terms of deaths from both on another thread. Dude literally deals with this day to day in comparison to virtually every other malady that he has seen day to day for years...When someone that does this for a living says, "this is worse than the flu" then maybe it is.....That doesn't make it the Black Death but it sure isn't a casual run of the flu.
I think at the same time there is irrational fear surrounding the very fact you bring up in the 6-10 people you know that didn't really all that sick. The majority of people have minor to no symptoms at all, but a significant minority have serious to life threatening issues. Its the uncertainty of if it gets serious you run a good chance of being in a vent like situation with a pretty ****ty prognosis utilizing treatments that are being developed in real time.
You also don't have to have purple fluid logged ankles to fall into the obese category, there have been several threads on just how many people fall into that category. Hell I'm Obese and my non purple fluid logged ass went on my daily 5 mile walk. That said, I'm getting less obese by the week and Covid was the thing that kicked it into gear and I know I'm not alone there.
I now know several people that have had it, including a co-worker who was at a large training that I also attended in late January in NYC. He caught it during said training (think 200 people spending 8-10 hours a day in a hotel ball room or restuarant for 5 days) or during an excursion into the city to grab drinks and dinner on the last night that I attended.
This gentleman runs marathons and last year completed a signicant part of the Pacific Cost trail (think I have the name right). Did he have to go to the hospital? No, but he just started running again in May. It kicked his ass and I'm shocked I didn't get it. I'm going to go donate blood and get tested for antibodies I think.
Another person, here in Austin (another marathoner) had a similar recovery path. She said it was like breathing through a straw for 8 weeks or so.
Lastly why does it always have to fall to some doctors didn't condem the protests and those are the only things that could have spiked this thing? Why can't it be both? Surely the protests accelerated this thing but surely so did huge gatherings of people who weren't protesting be it BBQs, parties or generally early summer living?
