04-23-2020, 02:31 AM
Ok, I'm gonna jump in on this as the sheer amount of mis-infomation that is being spread in the US, both from the President and others needs some clearing up. I've been in Lurk mode for quite a while, but one thing that I do know is what my agency has been doing is being very much covered up by Trump (I'm actually a gob'ment employee now, working for Health Resource and Services Administration which is a sub agency for HHS).
All the sub-agencies of HHS have been working on this since early January and Trump didn't want to hear anything from any of the agencies, including Azar himself that oversees all of HHS. While some of the sub-agencies screwed the pooch, *cough*CDC*cough*, NIAID and NIH have been really doing a lot of work (as can been seen by having Fauci doing everything he can try to counter Trump's lies).
Here's some facts:
Covid-19 has an infection rate of about 1.6. What this means is someone with Covid-19 will likely infect 1.6 people. To put that in perspective, chicken pox has an infection rate of 12 which means someone contagious with chicken pox will infect 12 people that aren't immune.
Covid-19 attacks the respiratory system and someone that ends up in intensive care has symptoms equivalent to pneumonia. It is this pneumonia like actions by the virus that is causing the deaths and it isn't just people with underlying conditions dying, perfectly healthy people are dying from it.
Covid-19 has a mortality rate between 0.5% and 1%, the Flu has a mortality rate of 0.1%
Covid-19 is showing signs of looking a lot like the Spanish Flu pandemic that hit the world back in 1918. The scary aspect is this, the Spanish Flu had an initial number of cases in the spring, but the worst was yet to come in the fall of 1918 where the majority of infections and deaths occurred.
All the sub-agencies of HHS have been working on this since early January and Trump didn't want to hear anything from any of the agencies, including Azar himself that oversees all of HHS. While some of the sub-agencies screwed the pooch, *cough*CDC*cough*, NIAID and NIH have been really doing a lot of work (as can been seen by having Fauci doing everything he can try to counter Trump's lies).
Here's some facts:
Covid-19 has an infection rate of about 1.6. What this means is someone with Covid-19 will likely infect 1.6 people. To put that in perspective, chicken pox has an infection rate of 12 which means someone contagious with chicken pox will infect 12 people that aren't immune.
Covid-19 attacks the respiratory system and someone that ends up in intensive care has symptoms equivalent to pneumonia. It is this pneumonia like actions by the virus that is causing the deaths and it isn't just people with underlying conditions dying, perfectly healthy people are dying from it.
Covid-19 has a mortality rate between 0.5% and 1%, the Flu has a mortality rate of 0.1%
Covid-19 is showing signs of looking a lot like the Spanish Flu pandemic that hit the world back in 1918. The scary aspect is this, the Spanish Flu had an initial number of cases in the spring, but the worst was yet to come in the fall of 1918 where the majority of infections and deaths occurred.
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.
Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.