Kolek planning to go pro
China is too large and powerful to succumb to external pressure. The country is like an adult bookstore or a crack dealer... no matter how unethical or how despised they may be, they have something that people want (and if someone isn't willing to overlook their misdeeds, someone else will).Change can only come from within, and even then, it must come from the masses, not simply the majority. IMO, it would take something cataclysmic (which it is not looking like COVID-19 rises to this level) to change the paradigm in the People's Republic... decades of propaganda and censorship have ingrained their brand of authoritarianism so deeply within their culture that the very though of the Chinese rising up en masse against their gov't would be tantamount to Americans suddenly deciding that we're all going to completely abandon the idea of diamond engagement rings.Taking a page while it's still fresh... watch American Factory on Netflix; the Chinese don't envy the lifestyle and leisure time that Americans enjoy, they despise it. Even when given the freedom to explore, they still blindly adhere to their hierarchy.
2019-20 United States Flu Season Preliminary CDC Estimates 250,000 hospitalized14,000 dead
Yes, the flu is a problem. The big concern is that the corona virus, unless contained, will become seasonal within the global population. If that happens estimates for how a corona virus season may look, would be something like.5,000,000 hospitalized300,000 dead.The hospitalizations alone would cripple our medical system, possibly leading to even more deaths.
Haven’t they already said they expect it to become seasonal?Still don’t think the numbers will be that high. Somewhere I saw it mentioned that there is likely a large number of people who have it but show such mild symptoms they don’t even it checked. While that would likely increase the number of people getting infected, it would also drop that fatality and hospitalize rate a great deal.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Except 20% require hospitalization.Sorry bud, you're wrong if you think this is the flu.
20% of known cases. Maybe I should say reported cases since China isn't trustworthy.Like I said, there are likely many others who have it and just experienced mild symptoms and didn't even get checked.
Did the sky fall yet?
The fun part there will be if it turns out to be more than seasonal. The Olympics could be jeopardized. Worse than the virus in Rio that had all the golfers bailing. And who has the facilities to host on short notice?
Check on Japan in a month.
Los Angeles
Olympics Golf at Riv would be fantastic.
As Hards said, Covid-19 is not the flu... it is a respiratory disease with flu-like symptoms. Comparing Covid-19 stats to flu stats is a false comparison that adds little in the way of perspective, especially since you're ignoring the time factor involved, i.e. you're comparing annual stats on flu to about a month's worth of stats on Covid-19... how the hell is anyone supposed to draw a conclusion on that?In other words, whatever the agenda is in comparing seasonal influenza stats to Covid-19 stats, the comparison itself is tantamount to comparing the number of cardiac deaths to the number of AIDS deaths in the early 80's. 1981 Morty would probably say something along the lines of: "Oh geez, Rick, that AIDS thing sure isn't killing as many people as heart attacks are and barely anyone here has it... maybe we should just calm down and not do anything about it."
I'm also sick of seeing the flu comparison as a way to minimize the seriousness of this epidemic. There is still so much we don't know about COVID-19, including transmission methods, and reliable numbers on total infected and death rate. Even if it is just another "flu," that would be a pretty significant impact on global health.
I've used the flu comparison, but I don't really feel like I use it to minimize the seriousness of this epidemic. I've heard people (including my children) who were saying they were afraid to go outside or to go to work or public places. This is a very serious situation, but that is absolutely silly. The reference to the flu is merely a reminder that there really is no statistically significant risk of getting sick from this virus. If people aren't afraid to go to work every single day of winter, they shouldn't be afraid to to go to work because of this virus. It doesn't mean that it's not a big deal; it is.
That's fair, if you live in the US. I don't think its silly to be afraid to go to work right now if you live in Wuhan.