The virus is way worse, on a personal level. When your loved one dies/you have lung function destroyed, that's the whole sheban, for you.
Big picture as a country, if 100,000 people die? No big deal. We have 330,000,000. Very few are important enough to have losing them matter. The effects of this thing though... The deaths might be a footnote, the effects of the economy, along with the social effects, could last decades.
The hoarding and shortages were short lived, thank God. My first fear was people running out of food. Nothing, no-damned-thing, will turn a society upside down faster than a man with a hungry family. Many here talk about "Living off the land". Brag they would be fine. It doesn't work that way. All those guns, all that ammo? Don't mean [bleep]!
People worry about 20% drop in a 401! I worry about my country turning into the Balkans or Somalia.
Dillobuck I think you have a good grasp of what is and what could happen. Cheers NC
I think most people are hysterical over this.
All you have to do is get an IV infusion of 20-30grams of vitamin C and you'll be over it in a week or less.
How many patients have you seen in CVICU on ECMO from influenza with their face swollen twice normal and their eyelids so edematous they are inside out? So hypoxic they die without being on life support. No amount of vitamin C will cure that. This virus ain't your average flu.
