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52 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

Seasonal flu kills people who have compromised immune systems. It was a pandemic in 1918 when it killed 40 million people.

Coronavirus is killing perfectly healthy people. It is a pandemic RIGHT NOW.

Don’t be ignorant. 

 

49 minutes ago, Anastasios said:

Its killing healthy people? I heard its only dangerous for people who are have already a disease 

And this is how misinformation spreads, you are right Anastasios, it is not killing "perfectly healthy" people, other than just a very small amount of cases, which is within the normal expectations for any outbreak of this kind.

If you are young and you dont have any underlying condition, your chances of death are extremely low.

 

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7 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

I’ve already mentioned this: You cannot equate known risks with unknown risks. Should my worry about car accidents (there are 50,000 annually) stop me from getting into a car? No. Because the 50,000 deaths are not likely to jump to 100,000, or 200,000. This is the crucial difference between known risks ans unknown risks.

The long-term behaviour of a known risk is stable. The long-term behaviour of an unknown risk is unknown.

The same can be applied to the Coronavirus though. Why should a healthy person under person under 60 be afraid of it, when they're not afraid of Influenza?

We have enough statistics to show both have similar symptoms and a similar mortality rate. The only difference is that the coronavirus is new, and the flu is common (we kind of accepted it as an every day event)

If you have time, this article is a great read; as it reflects on humanities fear of what we don't know: https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2020/02/22/your-fear-of-coronavirus-is-irrational

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2 minutes ago, Adakam said:

 

And this is how misinformation spreads, you are right Anastasios, it is not killing "perfectly healthy" people, other than just a very small amount of cases, which is within the normal expectations for any outbreak of this kind.

If you are young and you dont have any underlying condition, your chances of death are extremely low.

 

8 doctors have died from it. Doctors. The healthiest people on the planet. It is a brand new virus. Just like HIV in the 80s. HIV killed 40 million people. 

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2 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

8 doctors have died from it. Doctors. The healthiest people on the planet. It is a brand new virus. Just like HIV in the 80s. HIV killed 40 million people. 

I don't think you can say that

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4 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

8 doctors have died from it. Doctors. The healthiest people on the planet. It is a brand new virus. Just like HIV in the 80s. HIV killed 40 million people. 

sis just stop its kinda obvious you yourself dont believe in that **** and youre just stirring the pot here

Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I wanna get off but I keep riding the ride
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1 minute ago, Salome said:

I don't think you can say that

Not only are doctors healthy, they’re exposed to a multitude of pathogens on a daily basis, which gives them an incredibly strong immune system. 

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1 minute ago, Lona Delery said:

sis just stop its kinda obvious you yourself dont believe in that **** and youre just stirring the pot here

Imma just repeat myself. 8 doctors have died from Coronavirus. In the 80s when HIV was a brand new virus foolish people also said not to worry. Then HIV killed 40 million people. 

This ain’t an opinion gurl. This is recent history. You know what they say about history. It keeps repeating. Like I just did above.

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5 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

8 doctors have died from it. Doctors. The healthiest people on the planet. It is a brand new virus. Just like HIV in the 80s. HIV killed 40 million people. 

Dude, this is not a disney world, doctors arent the healthiest people on the planet just because they are doctors.

That number is still negligible, and expected, says nothing about the disease. 

Wuhan has insane levels of pollution, you just cant find people with perfectly healthy lungs, you are automatically at a higher risk if you are in one of those cities.

 

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1 minute ago, Adakam said:

Dude, this is not a disney world, doctors arent the healthiest people on the planet just because they are doctors.

That number is still negligible, and expected, says nothing about the disease. 

Wuhan has insane levels of pollution, you just cant find people with perfectly healthy lungs, you are automatically at a higher risk if you are in one of those cities.

 

40 million people died from HIV because some wise guys told others not to worry. Don’t be one of them.

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14 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

8 doctors have died from it. Doctors. The healthiest people on the planet. It is a brand new virus. Just like HIV in the 80s. HIV killed 40 million people. 

Aren’t they some of the doctors who have been working with coronavirus patients though? So they’re overworked and burned out and that wrecks your immune system

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1 hour ago, Lord Temptation said:

I meant sensible panicking, like changing behaviours that increase risk, not hysterical panicking. The spread is inevitable. Common sense things like washing hands, covering your cough/sneeze with your elbow, avoiding touching people, avoiding enclosed spaces.

If you are not doing that in your daily life then you are gross in my book, coronavirus news breaking or not :lmao: 

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Lona Delery
9 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

40 million people died from HIV because some wise guys told others not to worry. Don’t be one of them.

yes dont be a sheep amirite

get your tinfoil hats out

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1 hour ago, Cookies said:

i'm really scared. i don't want to die. i don't want anyone to die from this

and then with talks of there being another financial crisis like in 2008, sh*t could be hitting the fan in a wild way soon..:cryga:

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9 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

40 million people died from HIV because some wise guys told others not to worry. Don’t be one of them.

If you want to worry, go ahead.

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2 minutes ago, blankpaper said:

Aren’t they some of the doctors who have been working with coronavirus patients though? So they’re overworked and burned out and that wrecks your immune system

China is doing it’s lock up which is containing the number of new cases. It’s the rest of the world (40 countries infected now) that has to face the crisis. But from the sounds of it, the disease stands to kill more people outside of China than in China because no-one is taking it seriously. Ignorance and arrogance literally kills.

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