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Thats not a very popular viewpoint. You arent going to get invited to the cool swanky Dr parties if yo keep that sort of talk up.

;-)

If half a million in the US die from this, I will be very very surprised
Kid out

I meant Covid-19, I doubt you guys had that then. I don't doubt "acute bronchitis" but I doubt it was brought on by Covid-19 back then. There's always lurgies out there - can't assume you had something unless you know for sure.

I've had a dry non-productive cough for about 5-6 months now but otherwise feel fine, could be my hypertension medication catching up with me.

Will you be surprised if "only" 250,000 die?

125K?
62.5K?

50,000?

What's the surprise point?


GEno

The same place they are today.

The tiny percentage of people that die.

The one stat that's hard to manipulate.

The death rate that isn't exponential.

Lisinopril?

Yet you had no issue with radically rewriting the medical statute definition of 'terminally ill'.

which renown medical professionals did you confer with?

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See, now thats pretty funny right there.

lisinopril? Did it to me and switched

"The seven funeral homes in the city of Wuhan were reported to be burning bodies 24 hours a day seven days a week in late January. Hubei Province has used 40 mobile cremators . . . since Feb. 16."

Full article here:
China May Have Massively Underreported Coronavirus Deaths

It looks like the Chinese govt is not on the fence about the seriousness of the virus.

My wife left China 4 years ago. Her son, in Fushun China, called the other day and said the police had contacted him. They wanted to know if his mother was still in the US, if she had any known illness, and if she had any plans of returning to China.

Just saw this.

Yep, my bad. I used mortality rate when I should have used case fatality rate.

Note that the global case fatality rate, as of today 3/23, is 13%. So, a doubling.


In my defense however, even WHO officials were using the term "mortality rate" when they should have been using case fatality rate.

"...even WHO officials were using the term "mortality rate" when they should have been using case fatality rate..."

Yes, true dat

They are professionals after all.

I wonder if we may have had a mild case of flu mitigated by having had the flu shot?

Just like guys here use the word "shell" instead of "cartridge" . . . .

That would be about 750 bodies per hour per cremator. sounds pretty crowded, to me,
just my .02.....

would that even be a possibility?

Geno

If you'd read the article, you would have discovered that they don't attribute every cell phone cancellation to a dead body. Because of travel restrictions, and the economic downturn, many Chinese would have a reason to have cancelled an extra cell phone, had they owned two to begin with. But, it does seem that cell phone ownership in the People's Republic is mandatory, and it is not beyond the realm of possibilities that China is continuing to lie. If some small fraction of that 21 million is, in fact, due to unreported fatalities, it certainly wouldn't surprise.

Having said that, I think it foolish to give any credibility to Chinese reporting during this pandemic.

South Korea, on the other hand, is probably a much more reliable source of information. The fact that the Koreans, at least from what I have read, have not shut down businesses, nor closed schools, and yet have managed to somewhat contain viral spread, is encouraging. Perhaps we should be following their model: social distancing and regular temperature checks, but continuing to lead their lives as otherwise normally as they can.