Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by Johnny555 on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:16PM
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But as long as you just keep standing on the deck, you're not going to drown.
But even though the risk of infection is low, I wouldn't say that a child is "not at risk" of contracting the disease if their dad catches it at work and brings it home.
I'd say that he's "at low risk", not "no risk".
Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by ltbarcly3 on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:42PM
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Again, not at risk means not at risk. "At risk" means more than average risk. Not at risk means the opposite in common usage, it means much below average. Nobody said anything about "no risk". "low risk" and "not at risk" mean exactly the same thing.
Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by wisty on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:43PM
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It seems like children are 10 times less likely to get it, though that's very rubbery numbers (based on children being 2% of cases in China despite being about 20% of the population, not that I really trust the numbers are accurate). A 0.1% chance of death (or even 0.01%) is still concerning.
Re:Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
by bryanrasmussen on Saturday February 29, 2020 @01:48AM
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The problem with MBL deficiency which can be a problem among younger children is that it makes you more susceptible to catching respiratory ailments and suffering worse from them. So as this is still in early stages we might not know how it effects children with MBL deficiency, it might be very bad for them.
"Not at risk" does not mean 0 risk, it means negligible risk.
For example, if I was standing on a cruise ship, am I at risk for drowning? Not really, it's extremely unlikely that I would drown. Could I drown? For sure, I could fall in the ocean, or in the pool, or pass out into a bowl of soup. Despite the nonzero possibility of drowning, if someone saw me on the cruise ship waiting in line for the buffet and yelled "be careful, you are at risk of drowning" at me, I would think they had lost their mind.