Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Rob, I don't think your numbers are correct, simply because we don't yet know how many asymptomatic people have had the virus. I hope for every person that gets sick there are 9 that have had the virus and didn't even know it. That would be fantastic! We have to have significant antibody testing to know that and we don't yet. They are just starting to roll that out. Maybe by the end of the week, it will start to be widespread.

I also believe your numbers that healthy middle-aged people are not getting sick are very wrong. Younger people are getting sick. They die at smaller rates, which is to be expected , but they are getting sick, some requiring hospitalization. My brother is 28 years old, in good health, athletic, slim, healthy, hasn't been to a doctor since he was in high school, no existing conditions, and he has been pretty sick for 10 days. Well let me say 7 days as he has improved over the weekend and today was the first day he had no fever. I am in my 30's and yes, I have a pre-existing heart issue, that is well under control, and healthy otherwise. I have only been very mildly sick for I think 5 days. Neither of us ever felt we needed to go to the hospital or anything, but we were both definitely sick and very fatigued. I feel pretty good the past couple days, but still have a very low fever. I want to get rid of that, so I can get antibody test ASAP.

But here"s the thing. This nasty virus or disease or whatever you want to call it, really doesn't discriminate. Sure people with conditions, including older people are at greater risk, but there are young healthy people everywhere getting sick. In trying to figure out why it effects different people differently some so called experts attribute that to different strains. I really don't know how that works.

The other thing is that anyone who watches the news see a list of common symptoms, but like I just said, it effects different people different ways, including causing people to have heart attacks. It does that because of inflammation which causes irregular heart beats. For most people this is a respitory infection, but for some, it effects the heart, kidneys, liver. One guy in New York had his legs amputated because of the virus. Not sure the exact details, but didn't get oxygenated blood to his legs for too long a period. Like I said, nasty, nasty virus.
I understand most of that. My gripe is about this vs. the flu. I got the numbers from Fox and they're confirmed on the internet in several places.

While it's true we don't have numbers on equal footing with the flu, just look at the giant difference. And imagine what they'd be with no vaccine available.

Obama's swine flu had much higher numbers than this, and it's a faded memory because the media didn't make a big deal out of it....they didn't want to make him look bad.