Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "UNDERSTANDING COVID-19 NUMBERS
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Every day we hear numbers of cases, totals, per country, per locale, & the increase or lack of increase per day. According to the media, those numbers indicate total number of cases, with Italy, & the US now more than China where it all started. 2)
Actually, that is not quite the case in reality.
What these numbers are is the number of people who have been tested & whose tests came out positive for the virus. 3)
What these numbers are is the number of people who have been tested & whose tests came out positive for the virus. 3)
It does not indicate realistically how many people have had, or still have, this virus, with mild symptoms who never get tested, & it appears that is the overwhelmingly vast majority.
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Let’s be honest about this. Within the next 3 years, this Covid-19 virus will have been in almost every human being on the planet, either because they will have very mild symptoms they may think is allergies or a cold to much worse,...
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or in the next year will get flu shots that will produce the appropriate anti-bodies. But the reality is that the human race will eventually develop an immunity to this just as it has to all those that came before. 6)
What we are trying to do now, is to help health facilities not be overwhelmed with cases all at once & to save some lives of those most vulnerable, which appears from the international death rate to be predominately smokers and others with lung problems. 7)
We have been through this before. The details of the virus have changed, but they always do. The big difference is that this time, the media have made this an int'l drama, reporting numbers 24 hours a day, often misinforming the public as to what symptoms are,... 8)
encouraging panic because it is more dramatic, & as a result damaging the economy more than ever before & using this crisis as a political tool. 9)
In my area, I can tell you, that people are so panicked that they are running to their Doctors & Clinics & Emergency rooms, where 90% are sent home because their symptoms are for allergies, other flu, colds, but not Coronavirus, COVID-19. 10)
So, calm down, stay in, read, watch TV, relax, don’t be scared, & this will be over in a shorter time than the sensationalist media seems to be telling you. 11)
& in the final analysis, COVID -19 will have death rates of about 0.7 % of cases worldwide, no more than many flu diseases, & less than some." 12)
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