Is COVID-19 the end of life as we know it?

Nothing's guaranteed, OP.

Things are bad now, and will get worse in the coming weeks. Maybe months.

But we don't know if it will stick around and mutate once it fizzles out. A vaccine is too far out to be of any use to this here-and-now incident.

Our only weapon is staying inside. Can make it fizzle out faster that way. If it mutates and sticks around, we cross that bridge when we get there.

Things will be weird for a while. When we go back to normal, it likely won't be the same. But it doesn't have to be a bad new normal. We just have to act responsibly right now, this Spring and Summer, and hope we're lucky.

Stay safe user. Scary time for everybody, but the world's not ending.

Nothing much will change. It may have some long term geopolitical changes though. Distrust of the Chinese Communist Party will be strengthened worldwide.

Now that woman knows comfort.

Distrust of America, too. Stealing, hoarding, diverting PPE. Low.

The problem is the possibility for a virus to mutate, and the fact that nobody on the planet has a natural resistance.

It has the potential to infect a shitload of people, and every new infection means higher odds of a mutation.

The Chinese did that on a MUCH larger level. Be real here.

Not picking favourites. Just sad when my ally of 150 years hangs my frontline workers out to dry.

Expect that shit from China. You don't expect it from your brother.

The economic collapse and world wide warfsre culminating in the earth engulfed in nuclear fire will be, and covid will be the first domino.

murder all of China, I won't bat an eyelash

The US would have only done it if there was a realistic need for them to do so. It's not hoarding when you're desperate from supplies due to being cut off from Chinese suppliers. I assume you're from the UK? If so, we are still bros, make no mistake.

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From Canada.

"The [American] official, who requested anonymity to discuss the matter, said the United States would not stop buying “until we have way too much” and could still be searching out protective gear abroad through August."

Not blaming you, bro. But your government is killing people in my country, after having delayed action on this for months.

I know we're all in dire straits. I hope this stuff goes well for you too. But your country is fucking us, and it's going to kill people I love.

>Is COVID-19 the end of life as we know it?
For about a year, yes. I think things will go back to normal after that, although people's life philosophies will be altered drastically.

You’re welcome

Dunno but a friend of mine would walk down the beach and when he saw a sleeping chick with her top straps untied, he’d carefully snip the ties off as close to the cup as possible with a pair of scissors. He only got 3-4 ever but i’m sure they weren’t laughing when their tops couldn’t be tied up.

STFU retard

It's actually pretty early to establish a meaningful death rate in the US as the disease can take a few weeks to kill. Currently it's infecting 30k+ everyday and kill 1300 per day. It's gonna take at least 1 month to have some real numbers, but expect far more than 1-3%

Death rate in many EU countries is high (10% even) despite better healthcare because of an oldest population compared to Asia or US. Burgers don't live as much as Eurofags so they're on average 10 years younger

I'd like to have more information on that. From my understanding, the US has always been very forthcoming with Canada. Hell you are our hat, or we are your pants. Either way, you're our bros. Where in Canada are you from? I'm from California originally but have lived all over.

I got one somewhere of big tities poping out of a tent, but I cannot for the life of me find it now.
Please accept this big titied prego as compansation.

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hopefully we can end capitalism because of this.

I'm down. More?

Death rate in Europe is nonsense because they aren't aggressively testing people, so they don't have any idea how many are infected, estimates are from double to ten times as much. The 0.7% in South Korea, where they tested the fuck out of country, is our best guess.

Explain what you mean as a possible outcome of this. In what manner will people change? Will we be less inclined to throw our money at dumb shit that entertains us in the short sight? Will we reevaluate our lovers based on what real world skills they can provide instead of superficial comforts?

Let's unpack this.

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I'm hoping for full-blown socialism and a totalitarian world government, too.

How to make virus to kill mankind?

every virus does all of the above, stop panicking

It is not worse than the flu. Only very sick people get tested, so the mortality is drastically inflated.

You hate china because they are ending US domination (bullying)

Living in Toronto right now. Grew up in the Ontario boonies.

Can discord if you wanna chat, I'm tripleminttrish#5449

Links for that into: globalnews.ca/news/6775423/coroanvirus-global-face-mask-competition/

and

globalnews.ca/news/6772979/coronavirus-3m-n95-respirators-trump-canada/

I could go into greater details but I'm eating chips with my other hand; you basically gave a gist of what I think will change

I agree then. Everything is going to shift under this immense weight.

>Everything is going to shift under this immense weight.
His chair, and maybe a few floorboards

kek

Not OP, but thank you for this. I really appreciate it.

Yes. it won't just be COVID 19 though. There are many factors. COVID 19 is a bio weapon that is a symptom of other problems coming to a head. You did not seriously think we could continue to reproduce indefinitely?

Mortality rate is way lower than the official numbers. Consider that the number of infected reflects confirmed cases, and many of those confirmed cases are people with severe or life threatening symptoms. However, there are tons of people that have it who should mild to moderate symptoms, or absolutely no symptoms at all; half the elderly people at that assisted living in Washington who were infected showed no symptoms at all during the duration of the virus being in their bodies. This is important since they won't even test you unless you're having a high, persistent fever and are having significant breathing problems. I personally know 3 people that either had these severe symptoms or currently do that can't get tested because there are no available tests or tests are reserved for ER and Urgent care patients only.

What all this means is that there are likely 10-100x more people infected than what the official numbers state. Let's just use the conservative estimate.

250,000 infected x 10 = 2,500,000 infected

The deathrate is probably way more accurate since many of the dead were tested for their severe symtoms which lead to their deaths.

7,500 deaths/2,500,000 likely infected = .003% mortality rate.

I think you'll be okay user.

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Hope you're doing alright user.

Just a flu bra, it's only going to last for 2-3 years. Then we will all mostly forget about it

yeah no kidding it'll be an ongoing problem for decades; if it can kill 1% of the world population in a few months I easily see this killing 10% in a few years

5% now you cumstain

Its mortality rate is skewed by the sample demographic itself, they are asking only the sickest people to report for testing. Speaking of demographics, the mortality rate doesnt get above 1% until the 50-55 age group. The senior aged patients make up the high mortality rate. I can't fucking stand lester holt and every other news anchor practically revel in spewing hysteria bait nonstop for huge profit

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No. Capitalism is.

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This

I keep hearing 1-3% death rate yet of all closed cases so far (recovered or dead) 20% are dead. Yet we're still being told 3% as a prediction.

Panic won't help. Of course they lie. They also say it isn't a bio weapon, which is obviously false as well.

no,its only a problem in places like america because your president is a moron who is to stupid to step down and let an expert handle it

follow up on patience that haven't passed through a morgue have bee very inconsistent. They are reporting whenever someone tests postitive, but aren't obligated to follow up with them to see how they're doing.

As of today in Italy there are 112,000 sick and 14,000 dead, in Spain there are 110,000 sick and 11,000 dead. These numbers come straight from World Health Organization today. Do the math and the death rate is more like 8-12%
This same rate can be found in several Eastern European countries.

Yeah, we pretty much all are already asymptomatic carriers at this point.
the only threat now is a sudden evolution to be more deadly.
...Well, besides the threat of capitalism firing everyone because they can't afford to pay one months rent.

Young people are dying too. Besides consider the following: Hospitals are flooded regularly by these cases because people like you decided fuck it roll the dice. And then you or someone you loves gets into a car accident and dids at your hospital because the ED is filled with corona cases. OH WELL, sucks for you that you got unlucky. There is no way around this shit. Millions will die as a result of and peripherally to this virus, infants and young adults included. So this whole scenario is quite a cause for concern.
And lets consider the economic impact. Lets say we keep everything open and then workers start getting ill and everything shuts down anyway because people needed to do the job couldn't anymore. There is no way to slice this. This is happening. Millions will die. The economy will collapse and the only way to avoid that is to do that china did and strictly isolate people and do what they are likely doing now and put positive cases into camps and everyone they came into contact with.

Dude. Every ally of the US is pissed at us. No one really trusted the US but now its out in the open.

Its so low because they have aggressive isolation and tracking