We know the idiots hoarding bottled water have zero idea about how viruses spread, the water supply, and anything, really. The toilet paper people are similarly perplexing, but their idiocy is at least worth consideration. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I was only referring to the math; you have more than a 95% chance of surviving the thing even if you catch it. If you're under 40, you have even better odds, something like 98.5% of being just fine. I just used 5% because I've been hearing and reading death rates that are inconsistent; anything from less to 1%, to as much as 6%.
And I'm over 50, and I used to smoke almost a pack-a-day for almost three decades. Reduced down to about a pack a week a couple years ago, but my lungs are damaged, no question. So that one in twenty you're talking about? That's probably me.
Damn I’ll be 60 next month and I’ve smoked a pack and a half forever to say nothing of the many , many left handed ones lol . I reckon I am a dead man if I catch it, good thing is I live in middle of nowhere and have very little contact with people. My wife works in town at the courthouse , hope she doesn’t bring it home. damn thinking about the numbers and I am getting a little freaked out. Hopefully when I wake up in the morning, sober it will get back to not looking so bleak out lol [Reply]
Pretty annoying not being able to find chicken, ground beef or pasta here. I'm hoping the crazies came out early and are satisfied with their hoard and are done for now.
Estimates I've seen are one third to one half of us infected over the next 18 months. Fatality less than one percent if curve flat enough to treat the severe cases. It's the high predicted hospitalization rate and not having the beds and ventilators for the elderly that scares me. Can't imagine my 85 year old mom dying because she can't get hospitalization. [Reply]
Wife and I drove by Costco yesterday.
the parking lot looked kind of normal.
Then I realized the people coming out didn't have a shopping cart (or anything in a shopping cart). [Reply]
