56% of California could be infected in 8 weeks

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42 minutes ago, TOSK said:

"2,500 patients in the United States whose ages were known. Of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized"

20% of those infected need hospitalization

 

right!! and 20% of those were under the age of 59! 4% or 20-59 year olds were hospitalized. 

[Ladey Gaygay 9,321]

3 hours ago, JustJames said:

Because my points will be lost in the rant below, the most important things I need to say are:

If people are being reinfected, this is not the virus they are reporting it to be; the human body should be producing antibodies and the ONLY rationale behind following the draconian measures of government right now is if there is an end in sight in the form of a flattened curve, produced from herd immunity as more and more recover and become immune/unable to pass it on. 

That curve can only be flattened now by simply killing off the population. This is airborne stage 4 cancer if the immune system is now not a potential weapon against it.

*Most importantly*, the fact that anyone in politics/health/science is talking about vaccination against something that our body is not producing antibodies against should send chills down your spine. Vaccination is only a viable means of fighting health crises if it can get the human body to replicate the defenses it would otherwise do when exposed to the actual virus/disease itself. A vaccine against a coronavirus  that people can be reinfected by is totally useless, and yet healthcare corporations are pouring incredible amounts of money into one, and the media/govt are talking about it as THE CURE.MP3. A VACCINE IS NOT GOING TO HELP.

And, now, we are left with 1 more MAJOR talking point that doesn't make sense, and yet nobody thinks we need to stop worrying about a spring breaker and worry that the people we blindly trust are LYING to us?

1. When they are saying 1 in 5 of young people will need ICU care, 56% of CA residents will get infected, 70% of the population will, etc., the entire "arrest and torture anyone who decides to go get their minimum wage because, like, I am so compassionate and brave for staying home and not infecting grandma!" is a non-starter.

2. You all realize that the entire theory of vaccination is that it replicates the body's natural process of building antibodies - immunity - against foreign infection, right? You realize that if our bodies are not producing antibodies against the coronavirus, we need to be asking a lot more questions from the people locking us down, right? 

3. You realize that if people are getting reinfected, this will theoretically continue to infect and kill us all indefinitely, right? But, we should all just sit inside because why? 

Yet, everyone here still - while promoting being 'selfless' and 'compassionate' - will drag me for saying this. And drags down any American (for this example) who thinks that the risk involved with obeying every order from the government and listening to every word of the media - risks that would include total social isolation, disruption to the education of our children and young adults, the forced removal of our constitutional rights to assemble, freedom of religion, the loss of our jobs and healthcare that would be our only small shot at surviving this, losing our homes, costs associated with having to care for our children at home vs. in schools with subsidized food and care, mental health stress - are far too great when faced with the alternative of contracting a virus that we keep hearing:

1. Infects younger people more aggressively than it should; 1 in 5 will need critical care.

2. 70% of Germans will get it - scaleable to all populations.

3. 250k Brits and 2.2m Americans are anticipated to die.

4. 56% of Californians are anticipated to get infected.

You really think Lady Gaga, my favorite musician of all-time, is self-isolating? She, Ariana, and every other celebrity are totes on the same page and willing to give up their retail therapy and entourages because they are SO woke? Literally, there were more people on stage when the U.S. government announced we should avoid our right to assemble than the # they threw out there! COME ON. Something is so very wrong with all of this, and it is scary how it seems nobody sees it?

Girl...lay off the crack pipe

[Ladey Gaygay 9,321]

2 hours ago, Ivy said:

@JustJames  you've got me a bit scared  

She snorts crack, its ok. I stop paying attention after they discredited vaccination

[Midnightrush891 727]

I filed for FMLA, and told my job I’m taking two weeks off. I can’t be around all this madness, especially when my job doesn’t perform essential healthcare needs. 

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9 minutes ago, Midnightrush891 said:

I filed for FMLA, and told my job I’m taking two weeks off. I can’t be around all this madness, especially when my job doesn’t perform essential healthcare needs. 

Good for you for looking out for yourself. 

[Ivy 13,718]

22 minutes ago, Ladey Gaygay said:

She snorts crack, its ok. I stop paying attention after they discredited vaccination

Okay I hope what they're saying isn't true. I start believing things too easily.. 

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Uhhh I dont know what to think of this projection or where are they getting it from but it feels like pure fear mongering (if it gets more people to take it seriously, then im not against it), but lets see:

First of all, right in the article it says that the projection doesnt take into account mitigation efforts and society's cooperation.

Secondly, if that projection becomes true, then theres something really wrong with the US, China defeated the virus at 80k cases, and their population is of 60 million between Wuhan and Hubei. Italy is doing awful, but with the lockdown they are pretty much at the peak, and new cases should drop soon and completely stop in like a month, maybe we'll see around 100k cases at the end at most.

So, how the fudge is California, going to get 20+ million cases?????? Even with a semi-lockdown, it doesnt make any sense to me.

 

So, following what the article says that the projection doesnt take mitigation efforts into account, Imma say that its just a projection based on a do-nothing scenario, to purposefuly inflate the numbers, get more support from the federal government, and that its a scare tactic to get the population to #stayathome (again, this is a situation where fear mongering is actually useful), and even a little bit of setting the scene to be able to later say "see, the projections were dire but we did awesome!"