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Schroder
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| I have to say I'm perturbed but not surprised by some of the cavalier attitudes expressed here. Over half a million people have died in the U.S. over the past year - a staggering number by any account. I know 5 people that died from it. I'm grateful that I've been able to be vaccinated, though it may be months before most others are. I'm going to continue to minimize my exposure as much as possible until the infection numbers drop, which looks like it will be in April or May. |
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Chief Joseph
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| Riverside Laker wrote: |
| Two covid deaths in our family. One from a card game. |
Sorry for your loss. A neighbor guy has a once a month poker game which has mostly still gone on despite the virus. It's a small game with mostly the same players each time. One of the guys around age 60 tested positive for Covid about 3 weeks after our game. He contracted it at a company meeting where he works where there were about 50 people present and none wearing masks. We cancelled the game that month and he has recovered with no ill effects. It's troubling how the virus can affect everyone so differently. It can kill a healthy 20 year old, yet I have a 93 year old aunt who had it and fully recovered.
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Cyclopath
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| Person who used to babysit me when I was a kid died of covid. Early 50s. |
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Tom
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In the US there are 500K deaths (so far) out of 330 million people, or roughly 1 in 700. Will be higher or lower depending on the risk factors among your universe of friends and family.
In WA state there are 5K deaths out of 7.6 million people, or roughly 1 in 1500.
Worldwide there are 2.5 million deaths out of 7.8 billion people, or roughly 1 in 7800. |
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mike
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| Tom wrote: |
| ...out of 330 million people, or roughly 1 in 700...Worldwide... roughly 1 in 7800. |
That's a lot of excess deaths in the US due to a lackadaisical initial and ongoing response. Unconscionable. |
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Chief Joseph
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| mike wrote: |
| Tom wrote: |
| ...out of 330 million people, or roughly 1 in 700...Worldwide... roughly 1 in 7800. |
That's a lot of excess deaths in the US due to a lackadaisical initial and ongoing response. Unconscionable. |
Well, some countries like Australia and New Zealand had a much easier time than the US quarantining since they are islands. Plus, in Aussie they would not even allow travel from province to province. They have had full capacity soccer games for a few months now, due to the strict initial isolation and quarantine measure. Not sure that the US would logistically able to do the same, except by applying the same extreme measures.
Many people in this country still refuse to wear mask or take any precautions whatsoever for that matter. So imo, comparing the US's stats to those of the rest of the world is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. Our entitled society would never stand for the measures invoked in NZ or Aussie, that's just the reality of our culture, but it's convenient to blame the politicos.
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Stefan
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I have known 5 people who had Covid. 4 had "cold" for some days. Then fine. Only weird tasting thereafter.
The 1 person I know was in ICU and was going to crash related to Covid. Backstory:
He used to smoke 2 packs a day for 15 years. He refuses to acknowledge his behavior of smoking may have contributed to his story.
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Chief Joseph
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| Stefan wrote: |
Backstory:
He used to smoke 2 packs a day for 15 years. He refuses to acknowledge his behavior of smoking may have contributed to his story |
Speaking of smoking, remember last year about 12-19 to 1-20 just before widespread Covid there were the people getting very sick, dying and getting lung transplants due to tobacco vaping. Then as soon as the Covid thing took over, never heard another word about the vaping thing, what caused it and what if anything they did to eradicate the problem. Did I miss something or maybe the vaping and covid were somehow connected?
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mike
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| Chief Joseph wrote: |
| comparing the US's stats to those of the rest of the world is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. |
Stats are just numbers. Of course you can compare them. The US response was/is a failure. I keep hearing about the economy but just look at e.g., NZ, Oz and China to see where our economy could be.  |
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Cyclopath
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| Chief Joseph wrote: |
| that's just the reality of our culture, but it's convenient to blame the politicos. |
When the one politico with the most media coverage mocks people for wearing masks, you can blame that person for poisoning the well. |
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Chief Joseph
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Well, we made it to page two and post #5 until....
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Anne Elk
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| Chief Joseph wrote: |
| Well, we made it to page two and post #5 until.... |
Yah, that's the trouble with covid threads, they just can't help but drift into  topics that shall not be discussed. Everybody by now has had some connection to someone who got the virus with differing effects; except member rocknclimb, who I suspect is just bs'ing us to be a contrarian.  Stand by for admin group decision.
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Chief Joseph
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Lol...but no one has yet responded to my query about smoking-vaping and why that just suddenly went away when Covid started and no one seems to know if they found a reason for the vaping-lung problem thingy. 
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Anne Elk
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^^^ On that issue I seem to recall reading something pre-covid about the discovery that some of the additives that manufacturers were putting into those vapes were a big part of what was causing the acute lung issues, but I'm not interested enough to go googling around to find it again.
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Bedivere
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