Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronavirus-leading-cause-death/?arc404=true In just weeks, covid-19 deaths have snowballed from a few isolated cases to thousands across the country each day. The U.S. surgeon general had warned that last week would be like Pearl Harbor as he attempted to create context for the threat — but it turned out that more than five times as many Americans died from covid-19 last week than were killed in the World War II raid. [How many people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.] You can grasp the scale when you compare a single week’s pandemic deaths with how many people die of major causes in a typical week. In early and mid-March, when America began widespread closures, quarantines and social distancing, covid-19 caused many fewer deaths than other common causes — fewer in a week than chronic liver disease or high blood pressure, and far fewer than suicide or the common flu. By the end of March, the toll was closer to the average weekly deaths from diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Into April, weekly covid-19 deaths climbed past those from accidents and chronic lower respiratory disease. And last week, covid-19 killed more people than normally die of cancer in this country in a week. Only heart disease was likely to kill more people that week. (More at url including many charts)
You always count on Here4Bullshit to be the very first to jump in on any thread that is related to the death of Americans. Nothing excites him more.
I believe the point is to refute all of those naysayers who said Corona is no big deal because people die more from other causes. So it seems you will not pay attention until proven wrong .... People crying about staying home and the economy never bothered to try and stay home or order a stay home back in february when this was becoming a real crisis rather than claim it will just go away. Be mad at your leaders that made you complacent and convinced you this is no worse than the flu and would just go away so go outside and change nothing... Stop pissing in my face and tell me its raining. This is serious and should have been treated as such back in February by all parties. Now I have to stay in probably another 4 weeks thanks to a lot of useless politicians who figured they knew better than Asian countries or doctors. When you see your neighbor turn and run do you wonder why he is being a pussy and figure you hang around or turn and run and hide first and check later.
What is scary about covid-19 to me is that it seems so highly contagious. Preliminary, it looks as though that virus may have three methods of attack: ACE2 red blood cells t-cells Is it just perpetual outbreaks and lock downs for the foreseeable future? How can an economy operate under extended lock downs? How does the food supply chain continue uninterrupted?
This is scary as hell. Will it be full blown mad max pretty soon in LA? https://www.businessinsider.com/mor...-workers-unemployed-due-to-coronavirus-2020-4 After one month of coronavirus lockdown, more than 50% of Los Angeles is now unemployed More than half of Los Angeles workers are now unemployed, according to a national survey. Research from the USC Downside Center for Economic and Social Research found that only 45% of LA residents are still employed — down 16% since mid-March. This means an estimated 1.3 million Angelenos have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis.
Not as long as they have their Trump bucks and JPow's printer keeps going brrrrrr. The 3rd world countries that are not getting any stimulus are the ones that are going to go mad max.
We all need to wear masks. Japan and South Korea has very low infection rates and death rates compared to most countries. Everyone wears a mask in those countries. Heat kills the Corona Virus. This is a wild idea but, just throwing it out there. If you are out and about, wouldn't taking hot showers kill any Corona Virus you pickup while, you are out? Also, if you are feeling ill, a hot shower might kill any Corona Virus you managed to be infected with? People who have a hard time breathing like asthmatics are encouraged to do steam inhalation? Again hot steam to loosens congestion in the lungs?