Yes. And I remember my best friend's crazy trumper older brother almost losing his mind over it(because his job put him in constant touch with the 'dirty' public).
He went from being a 'normal' adult to going to the doc constantly over every real/perceived blemish and sleeping on the floor next to my friend's(and wife) bed for months.

This one's just a hoax though

if i meet a black guy and find out his name is kevin(COVID-19), and then i keep refusing to use his name and insist on calling him "the black guy" am i being racist?

i'm just being DESCRIPTIVE....

This is good ancedotal evidence for the theory I'm working on about how the biggest bigots are also the one's most fearful of disease/illness.

I'm sure that's why trump mentioned immigrants & diseases in that first speech when he announced his candidacy.

Makes the whole anti-vax thing seem really bizarre to me even though there are tons of people on both sides into that one.

Well, that woke up the woke bros. Good to see you are still on the job boys.

The world is depending on you.

Jordan Peterson did a podcast on this. I am paraphrasing, but as best I can remember the gist was "Disgust" is tied into a (probable) evolutionary selected fear of the other and the costs of contact with the other (including disease), where certain people are going to be more psychologically susceptible to broad spectrum disgust.

He used Adolph Hitler as an extreme example of someone who was extremely bigoted and concerned about disease, using the same "disgust" based language for both.

What's the scientific name for MERS and its underlying virus, and what's the official scientific name for the one we have now?

475 new deaths in Italy yesterday they have lost all control

Spain is above 100 deaths/day France, UK and the US will average above 100deaths/day next week.

You do not need a lot of people to get sick before the hospitals run out of respirators.

The fatality rate here is when people treatment it will skyrocket once the hospitals are full.

God I hope you are right.

Too long to get into but my wife thought she might need to be tested. Trying to get a test is way harder than it should be. I mean all the hoops you have to jump through just to determine if you should get a test is ridiculous. I am sure ymmv depending on where you live.

Yes USA is way behind the curve in so many areas in dealing with this.

Imagine defending "Chinese Virus"

I still dont understand how calling it the China virus or calling it really anything helps?

you made it seem like the precautions and medical recommendations we are currently taking were the result of propaganda from China. but it doesnt seem like propaganda from China is having any effect on our actions.

my brothers friend is in the hospital. he almost certainly has Coronavirus and they are treating him as if he does have it. he is not able to get tested tho. and yes, this is in Cleveland where the Clinic supposedly has access to enough tests to do daily drive up testing.

you are still in the area right? like, if we cant test people here who are showing definitive symptoms then we are even more ****ed than I imagined.

99,2p of dead ppl in italy have underlying diseases shows new study.

You and I go at it once in a while here regarding political outlooks, and we probably will again in future, but I do want to take the time to separate from that to hope that you, your family and your friend stay as safe and healthy as possible as this crazy future unfolds.

I don't think any country will get through this without issue, but as I have extensive family in the US, including New York City, it is frustrating to look at what is likely to happen there with all the time that existed to at least better prepare for this.

While Canada is hardly perfect in all aspects, in general the way it has been handled here has been quite organized. More testing is happening here than in the US which is utterly nuts, and that includes a mandate describing in detail that not everyone will be tested and why that is the case.

Anyway, we will get back at it again in the future, and that is just part of being on the internet, but genuine best of luck with your situation down there.

As we start to become accustomed to the idea of social distancing and isolation, the next phase of the coronavirus is yet to come.

Doctors share stories from Italy:
He added: "You have no idea how many young people are here, I mean even 20-year-olds with no underlying conditions, in need of assisted breathing because of horrible pneumonia."

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-11/...-milan-health/



I'm not sharing data about young people because I am particularly worried about them, or myself, over any other age group, I just think it is severely underestimated by the general public just how deadly this disease can be, and if it is hitting younger people more than we expect and the response is not appropriate, many more people will die than necessary and our medical system will be completely overrun, just like Italy.

And their medical system is much better than ours. Once ICU capacity is reached, anyone who needs intensive care will just die.

It's the only thing the Trumpkins have to defend. Even they know Trump is full of **** blaming his botched response on Obama, and everything else in Trump's response is indefensible. Oh, a ban from China, you say? Clearly that's all we needed. A flawless plan. Our numbers will be down to zero any day now.

Is there a follow up to that? Or you're just sayin?

You could make this comment about most posts. I definitely would like to see the source for this data.

It may be true or may not. I know its not something our media would ever report, because it isn't negative enough.

Well, once again where US media completely lets us down we can turn to DailyMail to get information that doesn't fit partisan narratives.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...udy-finds.html

Small study of 355 patients, but only 3 didn't have AT LEAST one other comorbidity. Of course, this isn't necessarily good news, because some of the main comorbidities (heart disease, obesity, diabetes) are extremely prevalent in the US population.

One, LOL at suggesting the Daily Mail bucks partisan narratives. Two, the fact that coronavirus overwhelmingly kills those with other adverse health conditions, especially heart disease, has been known for weeks. Three, just what do you think the partisan narrative is that this doesn't fit?

Actually, DailyMail definitely will post stories from both sides of the partisan aisle.

And more importantly, not EVERYTHING is a referendum on Trump. I just scrolled through the top 15 stories, almost all US centric, and Trump isn't in a single headline. You would have a hard time looking at 2 headlines on CNN without Trump popping up (always in a negative context).

As far as why this story isn't going to make any headlines in the MSM, it isn't negative enough. Our MSM has decided that the course to take with COVID-19 is all negative all the time, making sure everything is a referendum on Trump.

I think theres some speculation that the reason high blood pressure is quite prevalent among the dead is because of meds containing ACE inhibitors may have some negative interaction with the virus. There is no proof of this yet though so no worries.

Italy has more deaths than China as of today