Originally Posted by
jpfromla
Did you see the pictures of the hundreds/thousands of New Yorkers watching the hospital ship come in yesterday? And they wonder why they are dying but the hundreds/thousands.
I think people have wrongly decided that if they are outside, they are safe. I see that here in Vegas, where many of the parks are very crowded with people and often they aren't "social distancing", even with kids playing.
I go back to a statement that Dr. Fauci said a week or two ago. "
We don't think the virus can be transmitted by being airborne".
"We don't think" means they are uncertain and frankly, I am seeing evidence that this may be wrong.
And the numbers continue to go the wrong way. When this thread started, of resolved cases, meaning those that had been confirmed with covid-19 and either recovered or died, the death rate was 9%. 10 days later that number had climbed to 18%. Today it stands at 19% and climbing. This number is climbing because China's laughable results are included. So early on a significant part of the data was made up of China's numbers with the ridiculously low death rate. As the virus has expanded to include numbers from more reliable countries, the death rate among resolved cases is anywhere from 30-40% percent and that includes here in the United States. As real numbers from the rest of the world begin to dwarf China's manipulated data, the death rate grows.
Now, again, this is cases that were tested, confirmed, and resolved, either recovered or died. The hope continues to be that many, many more people contracted the virus and resolved on their own with little or minimal medical treatment and aren't included in that number. But until we start testing, the antibody test to see who may have had the virus and recovered, that hope is just guesswork.
For now, if you test positive and come down with symptoms, the death rate looks to be 19% and that is pretty scary. Scary enough that I am not feeling safe just because I am outside and they "think" the virus can't be transmitted through the air. When I am outside and I am outside everyday, I am steering clear of everyone, assuming they are infected.