This is exactly the mentality that has lead to the virus spreading like wildfire in parts of Italy.
This thread discusses the health care system in one part of Italy being stretched to the breaking point:
This thread discusses the health care system in one part of Italy being stretched to the breaking point:
So far.
Without supply and strong backend infrastructure, panic will only cause situation to worsen as people crowd up to get supplies, find them out of stock and blow themselves up over it.
Panic will also cause a shortage of human resources which are required to handle the situation. People will line up over small issues and displace those who truly need the help like what happened with masks and hand sanitizers. Hospitals won't be able to keep up. The staff will have other problems to deal with as their toddlers or family members are in panic at home due to schools, offices etc everything shutting down.
Mortality rate for people under 40s is not high. When you consider the risk factor, you would be more likely to die from using escalators and stairs over a period of 1-2 year.
Stop overblowing/underblowing the thing.
Mortality in your 30s for COVID-19 is around 0.2% which is twice that if flu overall making the rate much, much higher than normal for that age group.
If you do not give people social permission to take reasonable precautions when things are still good, the panic that happens when things get bad will be worse.
> Panic will also cause a shortage of human resources which are required to handle the situation. People will line up over small issues and displace those who truly need the help like what happened with masks and hand sanitizers. Hospitals won't be able to keep up. The staff will have other problems to deal with as their toddlers or family members are in panic at home due to schools, offices etc everything shutting down.
The more people are able to take reasonable precautions that involve social distancing and self-isolation, the more drastically we can reduce the number of people infected, and the less impacted the healthcare system will be.
> Mortality rate for people under 40s is not high.
It's still higher than the flu, and the risk of hospitalization is still pretty high.
"Healthy people under 40" are not the only demographic that should be considered when responding to a pandemic. Many people are not "healthy people under 40". Many of us have dependents who would be at grave risk if they were to be infected with the virus. The danger to them is significantly higher than the flu.
There are no vaccines, and no treatments for this disease. Our only recourse is to reduce spread through social distancing. Fortunately, unlike with the seasonal flu, it may still be possible to stamp out this disease.
> stretched to the breaking point
If you don't want people to panic, maybe you should avoid this rhetoric?
Here's a good site for the numbers: https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/ - look at that growth curve :-(
- Hospitals have a harder time sourcing equipment and treating other conditions, because of the demand
- Violence against perceived bringers of the illness (Asians, refugees, etc)
- Economic damage leading to long-term pollution (poor people burning wood and coal for survival)
- Economic damage leading to violence & war
It was linked in the thread, had you cared to read it.
Nobody panicked in Italy, and now they’re in a general lockdown! Clearly, they should have taken social distancing measures sooner, as we should now.
Well, that is how you get linked on Twitter. Traffic is everything it seems...