On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:58:20 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 11:28:45 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 4/27/2020 5:12 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 11:51:12 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:33:56 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:


It really looks like we should keep protecting the old and sick but
healthy folks seem to be shaking this thing off.

There are plenty of young people in the hospital and dead too. This
isn't the flu.

I always hear these stories but they are always pretty short on
details and it is a very small percentage. (1.9% under 40 on the New
York dashboard). Did they smoke, vape, work in a hazardous place with
particulate or VOC pollution, is there anything that sets these 307
people apart from the other couple million people who contracted the
disease and didn't get sick?

Is age 40 now the new 76? If 50% of the US population became infected,
applying your 1.9% death rate to those under 40, 170 mil, you have
1.5 mil dead. And that's just the dead, not all the hospitalizations
for weeks, etc in just the under 40 group. It's near the high end of
the 2.2 mil Imperial College estimate for the whole population.
That sounds acceptable to you?
It's not the flu, which BTW, people with pre-existing conditions contend
with and have a much lower hospitalization and death rate.

And it it goes wild, you have to count all the deaths of people that
can't get into hospitals overflowing with covid, or died because they
were afraid to get near the hospital. Covid will be responsible for all
those.

There are also HUGE numbers of people dying of the disease who are not
included in the published counts, but can be seen clearly in the huge
raise in deaths rates everywhere compared to previous records for the
same times spans in previous years.

Yes, we were discussing that here a few days ago. NYC added 3700 deaths
as probably caused by Covid, based on going back and reviewing records.
That still leaves ~3000 more deaths in the same period compared to other
years. It would seem reasonable that those are attributable to Covid too.
The Covid minimizers want to use the highest antibody test rates for the
population, eg 22% for NYC, but then deny that if it's that high, there
are likely plenty of people who did from effects of it that went unnoticed.
We know that it causes heart problems, strokes, etc. It's not unreasonable
that some people had only minor recognizable symptoms over the last few
months, died from a stroke or heart attack, and were never diagnosed as
having Covid. If you add those in, then you get an even higher Covid
death rate.



If you understand what a stroke or a heart attack is, it would be
pretty hard to confuse that with Covid.