Coronavirus thread

[Balisong]

I'm beginning to think it's a kind of mal-adaptive coping mechanism. "This is a scary existentialist threat and I don't have the scientific literacy to understand the conflicting information thrown at me, so I'm going to choose to believe it's a hoax."

It's the adult equivalent of hiding under the covers because then the monster in your closet can't find you.

I think there's a hell of a lot of truth to this. Lot of people don't know how to handle a problem that you can't put a fist or a bullet into.

God bless your mom and sister. They're heroes and I pray they get through this ok.

[Maple Syrup Actual]

I'm beginning to think it's a kind of mal-adaptive coping mechanism. "This is a scary existentialist threat and I don't have the scientific literacy to understand the conflicting information thrown at me, so I'm going to choose to believe it's a hoax."

It's the adult equivalent of hiding under the covers because then the monster in your closet can't find you.

I think this is exactly what's going on. Although I think there's a contributing factor of the insane political polarization in the US where every single issue has become a question of party loyalty.

I suspect that's the reason either extreme is rare here. We have a handful of legitimate anti-maskers, but they're rare.

We have a handful of "don't leave your house"ers too, but they're also rare.

The Canadian spectrum of opinion on this is a really steep-sided bell curve. I can't imagine someone here genuinely believing that c19 is a hoax and wanting to know "what's REALLY wrong with my mom". That's surreal. I'm a bit blase about it myself but it seems pretty impossible that people aren't dying from it in fairly large numbers and that the mortality rate is at least five or six times worse than a typical flu year, maybe more.

I mean I get the whole "media pumping this for ratings" thing, that's definitely true. But it's also a serious disease that seems very contagious.

Good luck to your mom.

[RoyGBiv]

The negative tests are comforting, but she's not out of the woods at six days. I think the guidelines may have changed since last summer, but I pretty much kept to myself for two weeks after my July exposure. Regardless, I hope the next week is completely uneventful for her.

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Contact tracing results .... Wednesday friend got it from a family member at Thanksgiving the next day... Thursday friend got it from someone on board a private/charter aircraft the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently everyone on board had been tested.... before Thanksgiving. Masks not worn on board. No feedback yet on how many others were afflicted. Many had already had it (college kids), so, hopefully few.

We're back to just "regular" paranoia here.

[Caballoflaco]

We’re at a 35% positivity rate for testing in Alabama for the last 7 days and all the Thanksgiving cases probably haven’t began to show symptoms yet. I doubt any case increase is going to change people’s behaviors for Christmas and New Years.

ETA: were at 1,800 hospitalized at the moment, but I’ll be curious to see those numbers in two more weeks

[TheNewbie]

I've met no one who thinks it's a hoax, but there are many, with loud voices, who think it is the end of the world.


My predication is history will look back on this as a great panic, but I could be wrong. I continue to live my life as normal as I am allowed to, and hope for the best in regard to the sick and those affected by the lockdown.

[Nephrology]

I've met no one who thinks it's a hoax, but there are many, with loud voices, who think it is the end of the world.


My predication is history will look back on this as a great panic, but I could be wrong. I continue to live my life as normal as I am allowed to, and hope for the best in regard to the sick and those affected by the lockdown.

With close to 300,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 and (at present) a daily casualty rate of ~2500, there's a reasonable chance that COVID-19 will have killed more people in 12 months than all opiate overdoses combined over the past 20 years (450k).

[RoyGBiv]

Pfizer plans to roll out half of originally planned vaccines due to supply-chain problems

Pfizer had hoped to roll out 100M vaccines world-wide by end of this year

“Scaling up the raw material supply chain took longer than expected,” a company spokeswoman said. “And it’s important to highlight that the outcome of the clinical trial was somewhat later than the initial projection.

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“We were late,” said a person directly involved in the development of the Pfizer vaccine. “Some early batches of the raw materials failed to meet the standards. We fixed it, but ran out of time to meet this year’s projected shipments.”

[HeavyDuty]

Contact tracing results .... Wednesday friend got it from a family member at Thanksgiving the next day... Thursday friend got it from someone on board a private/charter aircraft the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently everyone on board had been tested.... before Thanksgiving. Masks not worn on board. No feedback yet on how many others were afflicted. Many had already had it (college kids), so, hopefully few.

We're back to just "regular" paranoia here.

What moron wouldn’t wear a mask flying with non household members, even on a charter?

[Maple Syrup Actual]

With close to 300,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 and (at present) a daily casualty rate of ~2500, there's a reasonable chance that COVID-19 will have killed more people in 12 months than all opiate overdoses combined over the past 20 years (450k).

I'm not sure if I should describe this counterpoint as "uplifting" or "disturbing" but here, our opioid deaths are almost exactly 3x our COVID deaths.

469 people of Covid in BC
1386 fatal opioid overdoses

The good news is our covid fatalities are minimal...the bad news is our opioid deaths are terrible.

[scjbash]

What moron wouldn’t wear a mask flying with non household members, even on a charter?

Management and co-workers at my wife's job.