Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now

Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by irq11 on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:23PM (#22408039)

According to the most recent paper from CCDC, under age 40, the current estimate of fatality rate is 0.4%. Between 50-59, 1.3%.

For those with no pre-existing medical conditions, 0.9%:

http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

Death rates for flu vary widely by age, race and location, but these numbers are not out of the ordinary for influenza.

I’m not “indifferent”, I’m calmly assessing relative risks. You, on the other hand, are simply spreading FUD. Go breathe into a bag.

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Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by senordevnyc on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:35PM (#22409171)

Fatality rate in US for 18-49 is 0.02%. Source:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

So using your most optimistic number of 0.4%, that’s a fatality rate 20x as high.

And again, you have many comments downplaying the significance of this virus based on your own assessment that it kills young and healthy people at acceptably low rates. What about the billions of people who are older, sick, or have the misfortune of being born in a country without access to decent medical care? Pretty easy to calmly assess relative risks to other people, especially if you get them wrong by a factor of 2000%.

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Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by irq11 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:34AM (#22423850)

I am concerned about other people. It has no bearing on my advice to you, which is that unless you are old or sick, you should stop posting misinformation to HN, and go breathe into a bag in a dim room.

Maybe play some relaxing music and light a candle. (Be careful, though: you’re many hundreds of times more likely to start a fire with the candle than die from covid!)

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