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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 11:36 PM Feb 2020

Serious Question: How many dead due to COVID-19 before we should be concerned...

half the deaths of the regular flu? Not until it exceeds flu deaths?

A few dead people is okay, as long as it not too many.....too many is when the pig's poll numbers take a hit?

If that is the measure, then is that too late and it will be raging across the country.

Is there a tipping point besides a political one.

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SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
5. OFFS. Dying while on a ventilator, unable to get enough oxygen, is not like "taking a nap."
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 11:59 PM
Feb 2020


What a flippant thing to say about the 60+ people infected with Covid-19 in the US, and thousands across the globe, who are now on ventilators fighting for their lives! You may have enjoyed your "brief try" at dying, but these people are desperately trying to live.

tinrobot

(10,848 posts)
3. A few dead people is not "okay", particularly if the deaths could have been prevented.
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 11:46 PM
Feb 2020

We need to be concerned now. The more precautions we take now, the fewer deaths will happen. Period.

SunSeeker

(51,367 posts)
9. It's not going to be a few deaths. We are not testing communities like Italy and S. Korea are.
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 12:14 AM
Feb 2020

We're not even testing every person who shows up at a hospital with pneumonia. We don't have enough test kits to do so. Who knows how many have already died from Covid-19 in the US?

Our President spent today at a political rally calling Covid-19 a "hoax." Our head of state is not dealing with reality. There is a reason the financial markets are cratering.

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
4. I was trying to play around with some math
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 11:56 PM
Feb 2020

The thing is right now there are too many unknowns. But at this rate, if it were a linear progression which it is not, world wide infections will be over a quarter million by the end of March. That’s probably pretty conservative. If the death rate is around 3% that would be close to 7,000 dead. But all these numbers are just guesses based on limited knowledge and you can bet any deaths outside the US won’t matter in the slightest to the rethugs.

If all those deaths were in the US, or worse, the stock market drops another 10%, they might decide maybe we should take some serious action. Not just rate cuts.

Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
7. The problem is that this administration doesn't know ...
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 12:04 AM
Feb 2020

... HOW to take any serious action, no matter what the prompts might be. They are fundamentally incompetent, and they won’t listen to the people who are competent. I don’t know whether this will get really bad. But I am 100% certain it will be worse than it had to be because of them.

chowder66

(9,010 posts)
11. When you start hearing that hospitals are getting unusually high numbers of patients.
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 04:22 AM
Feb 2020

That is when states will have to start making quick and hard decisions on what to do in and around each community.

ck4829

(34,971 posts)
13. If you're a "Good American", you're not supposed to be concerned unless one guy gets it
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 05:40 AM
Feb 2020

If you're not a "Good American", then you can be concerned any time you choose.

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