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Sander Rossel wrote:
t's a slow and painful process
What do you know? I'm having back pains that are older than you.
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Are we going to discuss physical ailments like a bunch of old dudes? :laugh: Sorry, I'm slightly to young for that ;)
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ZurdoDev wrote:
The problem is that nobody really knows enough about this virus
Facts: • Those who suffer symptoms, whether mild or severe, don't show them for up to a week. • The vast majority of people infected don't even know they've had it. • Because it persists for so long on surfaces (and even in the air) it spreads like wildfire if the infection is mild, severe, or even asymptomatic. • The heavy-handed approach, used in Asian countries, was hugely unpleasant for all concerned, but resulted in fewer people dying than are dying in the West. • It results in a form of pneumonia that is particularly nasty because you don't realise that your lungs are filling with phlegm until they're almost full (so, by the time you're struggling for breath, it's almost too late -- and hospital staff are kinda busy). So we know plenty. Shelter in place, wear masks outside, and stay as far away from people you don't live with as possible. Doing otherwise is tantamount to murder, and, IMO, should be punished accordingly. Anyone saying anything else (except the IMO bit, of course) is doing so for political reasons, or because of either stupidity or arrogance.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
The vast majority of people infected don't even know they've had it.
You can't measure that. :laugh:
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Because it persists for so long on surfaces (and even in the air)
Not a fact according to other articles (therefore proving my point that no one really knows)
Mark_Wallace wrote:
resulted in fewer people dying than are dying in the West.
Apples and oranges, but also depends on what source you read. Plenty of articles indicate that China has massively under-reported their numbers.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Doing otherwise is tantamount to murder,
Drama much? :wtf:
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Anyone saying anything else (except the IMO bit, of course) is doing so for political reasons, or because of either stupidity or arrogance.
And there it is. "Anyone who disagrees with me is either stupid or arrogant." That is called bigotry. One thing is for sure, this "pandemic" has magnified the true colors of many people and exposed the bigotry many have. Your personality is one of panic and blind belief of the media. I bid you good luck in life. Wow!
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1,539,153 Deaths caused by smoking this year 770,064 Deaths caused by alcohol this year 1,692,170,966 Overweight people in the world 755,020,768 Obese people in the world Three very unnecessary products, tobacco, alcohol and fast food, take more lives than COVID-19 ever will. When will they be banned? When are we shutting down the economy for those? I know, the US already tried that with alcohol, but that's about a 100 years ago (not that I think it would be successful now). Basically, what we're saying is that 177,000 deaths from COVID-19 is a real crisis, but 1,539,153 deaths from smoking (that's more than eight times as many) is fine. The current measures will result in an economic crisis of proportions that we haven't seen before. The 2008 crisis alone took more lives than COVID-19. I guess more deaths is a fair price to save fewer lives. I'm just a bit confused by the math of it all :confused: Of course all of this is less about numbers than it is about "how we feel".
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Smoking, drinking, and eating cardboard fast food are choices -- you get what you ask for. I don't recall being given a choice about covid-19 -- for which there is no cure, and it won't go away until there is one, which could take a couple of years.
Sander Rossel wrote:
177,000 deaths from COVID-19
Times eight is what? And note that eight is a conservative estimate, given that it took a couple of months for it to gain a foothold in the entire world.
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My cat doesn't kill people (while I'm awake) :D Of course what you say is true. But isn't it weird that we're all panicking over COVID-19 while tobacco kills 7 million people every year? No one says I'll have a COVID-19 virus please, but at the same time we smoke a pack a day. I mean, how hard is it to not start smoking? (apparently pretty difficult...) If people were as panicky about smoking as they were about COVID-19, smoking would be banned within weeks with some smoking license or free nicotine gum or whatever for those already addicted. It's not about the unnecessity of things, but about the dangers.
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We don't smoke a pack a day. Individuals choose whether to smoke. Each person weighs the risk of activities in which they can engage. If social distancing wasn't mandated, some people would practice it to be safer, and others wouldn't. There would be businesses that enforced it and others that didn't. For the most part, governments have decided to enforce a one-size-fits-all policy, which is quite typical of what they do. Some people agree with it and others think it's overdone. The trade-off is between saving an unknown number of lives and seriously damaging the economy. Governments don't want to be blamed for deaths and think that money-printing can fix economic downturns, so their choice is unsurprising.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
The problem is that nobody really knows enough about this virus. But everyone is too scared to be wrong so they are following everyone else and shutting everything down.
This! The question is when the medicine is worse than the cure? I don't know, but the problem seems to be that neither does anyone else.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
when the medicine is worse than the cure?
Well, all you have to do is look below where Mark claims that not wearing a mask outside is tantamount to murder. :wtf: :wtf: I think the paranoia that has resulted from this is far worse than the virus itself. Not to mention the long term effects on the economy. Nobody wants anyone to suffer or die, but when the media hypes something up so far that neighbors are calling the police because kids are playing outside and people are claiming not wearing a mask is murder, society has lost its mind. And Mark is not the first one, by far, to say such a foolish thing. I have seen numerous people say the same thing. I feel bad for them, I'm not sure how I could function if I felt the way they do. What would happen when a real crisis happens? How could they cope with a real crisis when this situation freaks them out so bad? The mental health issues resulting from this situation will also take a long time to fix and have a heavy toll on society.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
The vast majority of people infected don't even know they've had it.
You can't measure that. :laugh:
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Because it persists for so long on surfaces (and even in the air)
Not a fact according to other articles (therefore proving my point that no one really knows)
Mark_Wallace wrote:
resulted in fewer people dying than are dying in the West.
Apples and oranges, but also depends on what source you read. Plenty of articles indicate that China has massively under-reported their numbers.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Doing otherwise is tantamount to murder,
Drama much? :wtf:
Mark_Wallace wrote:
Anyone saying anything else (except the IMO bit, of course) is doing so for political reasons, or because of either stupidity or arrogance.
And there it is. "Anyone who disagrees with me is either stupid or arrogant." That is called bigotry. One thing is for sure, this "pandemic" has magnified the true colors of many people and exposed the bigotry many have. Your personality is one of panic and blind belief of the media. I bid you good luck in life. Wow!
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ZurdoDev wrote:
You can't measure that.
It is being measured in China, South Korea, and even a couple of Western countries. It's a fact.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Not a fact according to other articles
According to all articles written by experts and specialists in the subject, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged. Dr. Phil, newscasters, and twitterers with vested interests need not apply.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Plenty of articles indicate that China has massively under-reported their numbers
Not according to all articles written by experts and specialists in the subject, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged. Dr. Phil, newscasters, and twitterers with vested interests need not apply.
ZurdoDev wrote:
And there it is. "Anyone who disagrees with me facts presented by experts and specialists, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged is either stupid or arrogant."
ZurdoDev wrote:
That is called bigotry being neither stupid nor arrogant, and showing respect toward experts and specialists who know what they're talking about
I also show the same respect to other developers who know what they're talking about. Do you? Or does that depend on their political viewpoints, too?
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I have answered to that multiple times: CP is capable of handling an unspecified nick, it makes no assumptions. It shouldn't be more difficult to handle an unspecified country. I have neither specified a nick nor a country - CP itself decided to locate me in one specific country. My reason for not using a name/nick is because I want the reader to focus on what I am saying, not on who is saying it. Not on which country the writer comes from, but what he is saying. If my country has any significance to what I am saying, I mention it. I am sure that if CP had a country value of "unspecified", you wouldn't be bothered by me stating my country whenever relevant. What causes problems is that CP assumes USA as the country until explicitly changed. The problem is with CP, not with me.
Interesting. I just looked, and there is an "Other" setting for "Your Country", so you could try that. Maybe I'll try it myself, because the farm where a dairy cow gets milked isn't relevant to this site.
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Fueled By Caffeine wrote:
Covid-19 has a fatality rate of somewhere between 5% and 0.1%.
Seeing the official statistics I would say the % are higher.
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Nelek wrote:
Seeing the official statistics I would say the % are higher.
It's really hard to tell, because many countries only report deaths if the victim tested positive and died in hospital, and others have other restrictions; and while the number of asymptomatic people is now known to be high, it will be a while before we know how high. But it's possible that neither figure will ever be known with dead-on balls accuracy, so statistical analysis might prove to be more accurate (but we won't know for sure that it is). That said, this is scientific doubt, so don't be swayed by people who misrepresent that as "no-one knows what they're talking about" doubt
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Those are surprising numbers, but it's mostly speculation. Between 0.1% and 5% is a huge margin. Still, 50 million lives is only 0.65% of the total population. While only a small percentage, that would double the deaths this year, except not everyone who dies from COVID-19 would not have died otherwise so the actual number is somewhat smaller. Of course, with 500 million lives that quickly turns into 6.5% which is significant. That's an absolute worst case scenario though. Most young and healthy people only get mild flu symptoms, if any at all, and those aren't currently tested. However, there have been reports that lockdowns have had a minimum effect. That would mean the virus would somehow have stopped by itself, but that's, again, speculation. However, if you look at the deaths we're going to face in the coming years because of the global economic crisis, the measures we've taken now may actually do more harm than good. Between 2008 and 2010, 500,000 extra people died of cancer in the USA alone, simply because they were unemployed and couldn't afford healthcare. People are now starving in Africa and Asia because the lockdown prevents them from working and getting their daily pay. Suicides go up in times of economic recession, in 2009 this was 5000. Of course, 5000 is a small number, but it indicates people are generally less happy and face more stress. That could reduce life expectancy in the long term. Of course I don't have exact numbers of the people saved, but it's not as simple as saying "x people did not die from COVID-19 so we saved x people." Those x people account for y deaths elsewhere and all I'm saying is y may be as high or even higher as x, but we'll probably never know for sure. Meanwhile, it should be relatively easy to save 7 million people every year by banning tobacco (unfortunately, it's not THAT easy, I know). All in all, I'm really glad I don't have to make the decisions here :laugh:
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Sander Rossel wrote:
there have been reports that lockdowns have had a minimum effect
It can be misperceived that way because lockdown was implemented a week or two too late, in all but a few countries, and the death rates that we've been seeing are the victims who were infected before lockdown. When the death rates drop, it's not because the virus has gone away, it's because the lockdown effect has caught up, and less people are infected. E.g. New York should be moving into a "recovery" stage, about now (if too many people didn't badly breach the lockdown), but without the lockdown, the current figures would continue until herd immunity was achieved in New York -- i.e. until everyone who might possibly be killed by the virus is dead, leaving the thinned-out "herd" to survive (until the virus mutates, which it will, to kill another n% of the population). A lot of people in Italy, Spain, and a few US states breached lockdown, in many cases very badly, so their recovery stages have been delayed -- and will continue to be delayed until a few weeks after everyone stops breaching, or until everyone who could die from it is dead. Note that those delays are imposed not by the authorities, but by the life-cycle of the virus.
Sander Rossel wrote:
That would mean the virus would somehow have stopped by itself, but that's, again, speculation.
Not the kind of thing to take a gamble on, given that all evidence that we currently have points in the other direction.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
when the medicine is worse than the cure?
Well, all you have to do is look below where Mark claims that not wearing a mask outside is tantamount to murder. :wtf: :wtf: I think the paranoia that has resulted from this is far worse than the virus itself. Not to mention the long term effects on the economy. Nobody wants anyone to suffer or die, but when the media hypes something up so far that neighbors are calling the police because kids are playing outside and people are claiming not wearing a mask is murder, society has lost its mind. And Mark is not the first one, by far, to say such a foolish thing. I have seen numerous people say the same thing. I feel bad for them, I'm not sure how I could function if I felt the way they do. What would happen when a real crisis happens? How could they cope with a real crisis when this situation freaks them out so bad? The mental health issues resulting from this situation will also take a long time to fix and have a heavy toll on society.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
Well, all you have to do is look below where Mark claims that not wearing a mask outside is tantamount to murder.
He has tendencies to drama. :rolleyes: But he's not alone in that. Wearing a mask in public is cheap and simple, and most probably reasonably efficient. So why not? Not meeting other people is obviously the most efficient way to not getting infected there is, so if you can work from home, you should.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
about a disease that does not have a political agenda.
Are you sure about that? The timing is awfully suspicious in favor of Trump getting re-elected. :laugh:
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QED.
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You sort of get it. Just - since you've done this before - you clearly identify as Norwegian - and have no problem using it when it suit you. As it is, however, when it doesn't suit you, your identified as USA. Since your ID is just a number, it's not automatically recognized as "you". so, unless you're embarrassed about it, update your profile. The same can be said for a nick-name. The lack of either, and the unwillingness to do anything about it when it being "spun" by you into an asset of "don't look at me - look at what I post" excuse just doesn't cut it. I doubt, seriously, if even you ever believed that. Unless - of course - you are ashamed of being Norwegian.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
your ID is just a number
Nonsense! CP looked into his heart...
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These are 2 of the most common covid-19 dashboards being used by media, government, etc. today. The first one is run by Johns Hopkins University. ArcGIS Dashboards[^] Coronavirus Dashboard[^]
Allow me to add my current favourite to the mix. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) - Statistics and Research - Our World in Data[^] This page has more than just raw data, they're actually crunching it and explaining it a bit as well.
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Nelek wrote:
I suppose you want to say "last year", as "this year" is not ended yet.
Actually, the website says "this year" so I assume that's 1.5 million deaths from smoking in a little under four months. That seems about right, according to Fast Facts | Fact Sheets | Smoking & Tobacco Use | CDC[^] which states 7 million deaths per year. The #1 preventable cause of death. Yet we do nothing. Well, that's not completely true, there are anti-smoking laws. But it's nothing compared to what we're doing against the far less deadly COVID-19. Here's a comparable website for alcohol: Alcohol Facts and Statistics | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)[^] (although it's USA specific). "making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and physical inactivity." According to the WHO alcohol causes 5 million deaths a year worldwide[^]. Maybe people "choose" to smoke, drink or eat unhealthy so we'll allow it. I have no data on deaths from passive smokers or casualties from drunk drivers. So I wonder, if we can fight COVID-19 so vigorously and are apparently willing to sacrifice the economy and many more lives to save statistically few lives, why can't we do the same with tobacco, unhealthy food and alcohol? :confused: I guess COVID-19 floods the intensive care while the others do not and that makes all the difference?
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Sander Rossel wrote:
I assume that's 1.5 million deaths from smoking in a little under four months
Don't forget to take smoking figures with a pinch of snuff[^].
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ZurdoDev wrote:
Well, all you have to do is look below where Mark claims that not wearing a mask outside is tantamount to murder.
He has tendencies to drama. :rolleyes: But he's not alone in that. Wearing a mask in public is cheap and simple, and most probably reasonably efficient. So why not? Not meeting other people is obviously the most efficient way to not getting infected there is, so if you can work from home, you should.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
most probably reasonably efficient.
That's debatable. But why not stop driving cars? I am putting everyone else's life at risk by driving a car (well not me of course, I'm a very good driver). And Covid-19 is not the only infectious disease I could be carrying so why not mask forever? Why not close down McDonald's because it is killing people? Tobacco? Alcohol? My point is the response to COVID-19 has been a million times that of our response to every other dangerous thing in life, many of those dangers much more threatening than COVID. I just want to see equal treatment of dangers. ;)
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ZurdoDev wrote:
You can't measure that.
It is being measured in China, South Korea, and even a couple of Western countries. It's a fact.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Not a fact according to other articles
According to all articles written by experts and specialists in the subject, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged. Dr. Phil, newscasters, and twitterers with vested interests need not apply.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Plenty of articles indicate that China has massively under-reported their numbers
Not according to all articles written by experts and specialists in the subject, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged. Dr. Phil, newscasters, and twitterers with vested interests need not apply.
ZurdoDev wrote:
And there it is. "Anyone who disagrees with me facts presented by experts and specialists, who have been working exclusively on this since it surged is either stupid or arrogant."
ZurdoDev wrote:
That is called bigotry being neither stupid nor arrogant, and showing respect toward experts and specialists who know what they're talking about
I also show the same respect to other developers who know what they're talking about. Do you? Or does that depend on their political viewpoints, too?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
your ID is just a number
Nonsense! CP looked into his heart...
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Do'h ! You Homer'd in on that one right away.
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Nelek wrote:
Seeing the official statistics I would say the % are higher.
It's really hard to tell, because many countries only report deaths if the victim tested positive and died in hospital, and others have other restrictions; and while the number of asymptomatic people is now known to be high, it will be a while before we know how high. But it's possible that neither figure will ever be known with dead-on balls accuracy, so statistical analysis might prove to be more accurate (but we won't know for sure that it is). That said, this is scientific doubt, so don't be swayed by people who misrepresent that as "no-one knows what they're talking about" doubt
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This was exemplified in one article commenting it: If a patient with covid-19 has a heart attack and dies from the heart attack, you may say that was the cause of death. But the covid-19 probably had weakened him significantly - maybe he could have survived the heart attack if he hadn't had the covid-19. If covid-19 was the underlying cause for his body's inability to handle the heart attack, should it then be counted as a covid-19 death even though the "direct" cause was the heart attack? A similar problem: In this country, about 1000 people die from flu every year. Because of the corona restrictions, we have had very little spreading of flu this spring, so we have fewer people dying from it. A share of those who die from covid-19 would probably have died from the flu, but covid-19 protected them from that death, and instead let them die from covid-19. How should we count that? This article stated that different countries and states have very different ways of classifying deaths. Numeric figures other than deaths are also collected according to varying practices: Yesterday, I learned that in Norway, when you are diagnosed with covid-19, you are counted for the "Total Cases". If you do not go to hospital, but stay at home and recover by yourself, there is no system for registering that you have recovered; that is only counted for those recovering in hospital. So you will forever be considered an "active case" e.g. in the Worldometer survey, even the day corona virus is totally extinguished. For comparing it to another virus, the measles: Before a vaccine was developed, we "did it the Swedish way", building up a herd immunity. Apparently, in Norwegian tribes, those with a genetic disposition for dying from measles had done so hundreds of years ago; kids could handle it. So whenever a kid caught measles, all his friends who had not yet suffered through it came to visit him to get infected, "to get it over with". We knew that catching it as an adult was far more dangerous. Official statistics say that every year (before the vaccine), 30,000 cases of measles were reported. That is about half of the population; approx 60,000 children are born every year. But... First, when I was a kid, everybody caught measles sooner or later. Second: It was a common thing, expected and usually handled at home. Why would we report it to the health authorities? How would we report it? I am far from sure that I am one of the 30,000 reported the year when it was my turn! I am quite sure that there w
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
most probably reasonably efficient.
That's debatable. But why not stop driving cars? I am putting everyone else's life at risk by driving a car (well not me of course, I'm a very good driver). And Covid-19 is not the only infectious disease I could be carrying so why not mask forever? Why not close down McDonald's because it is killing people? Tobacco? Alcohol? My point is the response to COVID-19 has been a million times that of our response to every other dangerous thing in life, many of those dangers much more threatening than COVID. I just want to see equal treatment of dangers. ;)
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ZurdoDev wrote:
That's debatable.
Everything is debatable, Look at the short video in an article I posted about here: The Lounge[^] Remember that it isn't about protecting you, it's about protecting others.
ZurdoDev wrote:
so why not mask forever
Actually...whenever you're having a cold or similar symptoms, you should, not just now, but always. It doesn't cost you anything, but could save someone else. This is what I'm talking about, anything that is simple low cost and does not disrupt society should be done. Everything else should be up for a deeper discussion.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
That's debatable.
Everything is debatable, Look at the short video in an article I posted about here: The Lounge[^] Remember that it isn't about protecting you, it's about protecting others.
ZurdoDev wrote:
so why not mask forever
Actually...whenever you're having a cold or similar symptoms, you should, not just now, but always. It doesn't cost you anything, but could save someone else. This is what I'm talking about, anything that is simple low cost and does not disrupt society should be done. Everything else should be up for a deeper discussion.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Everything is debatable, Look at the short video in an article I posted about here: The Lounge[^]
Exactly my point. There are articles claiming that this particular virus comes from the bottom of the stomach so the spittle from just talking won't have the virus in it. Sneezing or coughing might.
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