Wasn’t that also in their Holy Grail movie?
I'm in my bunker, stocked with supplies
Yes, this sounds like it might get bad
Not at all worried
What, me worry?
Wasn’t that also in their Holy Grail movie?
I found the chart below today which shows testing results from S Korea and Italy. S Korea data reflects widespread testing, whereas most if Italy data comes from sick people. This shows pretty clearly that younger people don't habe the same sort of illness as do older people. Young people seem to be carriers.
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It will be interesting to see how US data compares some day
That may be the 'artistic license' by the maker of the graph. The horizontal axis of the chart isn't a specific date. Instead view the starting point of each curve to be the same at "daily number of cases."
Overlapping the data sets would possibly cause other confusion.
My interpretation is by following precautions people will be less likely to contract the virus, thus not transmitting the virus. We of yet do not have a vaccine or effective treatment. The best way to overcome this virus is to reduce and hopefully prevent person to person or community transmission.
Closing schools helps. Even though children do not seem to be showing signs of being infected, they can still be vectors of a disease. Anyone who has or has had kids knows how this works.
jtk
Last edited by Jim Koepke; 03-14-2020 at 4:39 PM. Reason: wording
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Still think you are overanalyzing the graphs, a graph with no numbers in the x or y axcess is just an illustration. The point being illustrated is how the health care system capacity can be exceeded if the number of infected people is allowed to peak.
Didn't they also do that "bring out your dead" thing during the early 20th century flu?
You're probably right.
On a lighter note, I heard some reporting that Mexico and Canada are watching very closely. In the (hopefully unlikely) event the US goes the same way as Italy, they each may have to close the borders.
In an ironic twist, the Mexican president said if it comes to that, it would have been helpful if the US could have hurried up and gotten the wall built.
Isn't it also true that as with all other influenza seasons as the weather turns warmer the season dies off? Hotter dry weather and it doesn't last long. People aren't inside as much. Windows are opened up. Stale stagnant air isn't as common and the germs don't survive long. That's why I always understood that the opposite seasons of the northern and southern hemispheres result in flu seasons opposite as well. So if the onslaught can be slowed even a month the weather will also help to contain it as well.
It's spreading here. It was almost 80° today and it's always dry.
Seems like it's VERY similar to me. Although they are still learning about Covid-19 it is quite similar in all aspects except possibly transmission which they are still learning about. Don't take my word for it though.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heal...019-vs-the-flu
Last edited by Stewie Simpson; 03-15-2020 at 8:17 AM.
As a follow on from the previous post; Australia and New Zealand governments have just announced a 14 days self-isolation on all overseas arrivals.