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I still do not personally know a single person who got sick from Wuhan Virus


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2021 Jan 12, 7:51pm   654 views  46 comments

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Not one.

Lots of people think they must have had it, but not even any of them were seriously ill, much less in the hospital.

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1   GNL   2021 Jan 12, 7:52pm  

I know 1 person. They had to go to the hospital. He eats fast food and cupcakes every damn day and is over 70. He survived.
2   CBOEtrader   2021 Jan 12, 7:57pm  

My 90 year old grandmother had a positive test.

Despite a long list of very serious comorbidities, CV19 had no effect on her.
3   PeopleUnited   2021 Jan 12, 8:08pm  

Me neither. Not one.
4   GreaterNYCDude   2021 Jan 12, 8:12pm  

I know a few people that got it personally. One person close to me passed just recently :( This shits real.
5   Onvacation   2021 Jan 12, 8:15pm  

I heard my wives ex (retired) school chancellor had to spend a week in the hospital back in June. He was a very healthy 84 year old and said it almost killed him.
6   Onvacation   2021 Jan 12, 8:17pm  

GreaterNYCDudeIsLookingForAJob says
One person close to me passed just recently

Not trying to be rude.

Did they have any comorbidities? Or were they snatched from the prime of their life?
7   porkchopXpress   2021 Jan 12, 8:17pm  

I had it. It was like a Moderate flu. Wife and kids had it fairly easy. I know several coworkers who had it. Most were fine but a couple got hit really hard. It’s real.
8   Tenpoundbass   2021 Jan 12, 8:20pm  

I had a cold for about a week a few weeks ago. I was damn glad to get it. Some folks are going to isolate their immune system now for the next 2 to 3 years, then the next cold or flu they get is going to kill them. .Then they'll say it's Covid-20 and use it for an excuse to steal the 2024 elections.
9   Onvacation   2021 Jan 12, 8:20pm  

.porkchopexpress says
Most were fine but a couple got hit really hard. It’s real.


Is it worth shutting down the world for the great reset real?

I got the flu a couple years ago and could barely drag myself to "mandatory" training
10   PeopleUnited   2021 Jan 12, 8:23pm  

porkchopexpress says
I had it. Moderate flu. Wife and kids had it fairly easy. I know several coworkers who had it. Most were fine but a couple got hit really hard. It’s real.


Oh it’s real. Glad yours was mild. Most people’s are. It is too bad a very tiny minority of people don’t survive it. And yet when you look at the impact the virus has had on human health, the response (lockdowns, shutdowns and resulting economic impact) has been a much larger burden on human health than the disease.
11   porkchopXpress   2021 Jan 12, 8:24pm  

Onvacation says
.porkchopexpress says
Most were fine but a couple got hit really hard. It’s real.


Is it worth shutting down the world for the great reset real?

I got the flu a couple years ago and could barely drag myself to "mandatory" training
I guess it depends. If hospitals are slammed then I think we have to lock down. Otherwise, I don’t think lockdown makes sense...it’s then a matter of what risks people want to take for their own personal health.
12   B.A.C.A.H.   2021 Jan 12, 8:24pm  

I know six who got sick. Three who died, two of them my cousins, one of them my spouse's cousin.

Two other 40-ish SF Hipsters who got horribly ill but recovered without going to the hospital.

A nephew tested positive and had no symptoms.
13   GNL   2021 Jan 12, 8:42pm  

porkchopexpress says
it’s then a matter of what risks people want to take for their own personal health.

Freedom is the answer...ALWAYS.
14   GNL   2021 Jan 12, 8:44pm  

What state has the most old people? Is it Florida? How come Florida is open and no one's crying and dying like it's a pandemic?
15   PeopleUnited   2021 Jan 12, 8:51pm  

South Dakota and Sweden never shut down either. Amazingly life goes on!
16   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Jan 12, 9:04pm  

WineHorror1 says
What state has the most old people? Is it Florida? How come Florida is open and no one's crying and dying like it's a pandemic?



Not only is Florida open, it has less ICU occupation than this time (typically the heart of the flu season) in 2019 or 2018
17   GNL   2021 Jan 12, 9:04pm  

Actually, my neice (40 years old) and her daughter got it. Wasn't big news AT ALL because I didn't even hear about it until 2 months later.
18   clambo   2021 Jan 12, 9:06pm  

My brother got it.
He is:
1. Overweight
2. 69 years old
3. Slightly asthmatic

Symptoms were:
1. Lethargy
2. Lack of appetite
3. Lack of thirst
4. No fever (interesting)

He was in the hospital for a day or so and hydrated with an IV.
He is okay, out and about, and lost 25 lbs.
I don’t know if he took HQL, etc.
19   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2021 Jan 12, 9:10pm  

You are not going to know many Patrick, most people who are sick are very old. Local hospital has a lot of patients, they are all 65+, not your age group. Literally not one below 60, few people in early 60's...

This whole thing, how lockdowns work, is retarded.
21   Patrick   2021 Jan 12, 9:15pm  



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23   GreaterNYCDude   2021 Jan 13, 6:29am  

I've belived since spring that there are two strains of this thing. One mild, the other aggressive. Its all based on anecdotal evidence though. Since March, I know a few that had it directly, and a half dozen who had to quaritine because they were in contact with somone who had it.

Some said it was the worst flu ever, but are now fine and didn't see spread to the rest of their house or people they were in contact with.

Conversely I know others who got it, saw it spread rapidly amongst their friends / relatives and are still not 100% months later. Most common after affect is fatigue from what I've heard.

One guy, typical middle aged male, was in hospital for a week and even after the virus cleared has struggled with lingering respatory issues and fatigue since.

As for comobidities, yeah they were involved in the person that passed, but the covid put them "over the top" so to speak. No doubt about it.

Let's face it most of techincally have at least one comorbidity be it age, asthma, high blood pressure, weight, diabetes, whatever. Stuff that under normal conditions can be managed. Were not exactly a flock of 20 somethings....

https://patrick.net/post/1337288/2020-12-27-is-every-regular-pat-net-poster-gen-x

If there are multiple strains, mabey its different here in the Northeast compared to what you have out in Cali. Or wherever you're from.

It drives me crazy when people say it doesn't exist. Yes it does. And since it very well may have been engineered in that biolab we don't 100% know what were dealing with here or what the after effect of catching it are, months or years down the line.
24   Onvacation   2021 Jan 13, 7:37am  

GreaterNYCDudeIsLookingForAJob says

If there are multiple strains, mabey its different here in the Northeast compared to what you have out in Cali. Or wherever you're from.

Maybe. But is that reason to shut down the world?
25   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Jan 13, 7:51am  

Onvacation says
GreaterNYCDudeIsLookingForAJob says

If there are multiple strains, mabey its different here in the Northeast compared to what you have out in Cali. Or wherever you're from.

Maybe. But is that reason to shut down the world?


There was never reason. They should have let it rage, run through everyone, kill of the already nearly dead, and have been done with it.
26   NDrLoR   2021 Jan 13, 8:39am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
They should have let it rage, run through everyone, kill of the already nearly dead, and have been done with it
Like it did in 1918, which shortened World War I from which it originated no doubt.
27   B.A.C.A.H.   2021 Jan 13, 8:51am  

NDrLoR says
in 1918, which shortened World War I from which it originated no doubt.

A major German offensive was called off in the final weeks of the war because too many soldiers were too ill.
28   Bitcoin   2021 Jan 13, 9:07am  

Two people (40's) I know indirectly died but they were obese. Several other people (including an >80year old in our family) I know recovered very well and had mild or flu-like symptoms.
29   GNL   2021 Jan 13, 9:24am  

GreaterNYCDudeIsLookingForAJob says
I've belived since spring that there are two strains of this thing. One mild, the other aggressive.

Can you please explain then, why 2 people in the same household can get Covid but 1 is mild and one is aggressive? If they got the Covid from each other, it's the same strain. Duh
30   MisdemeanorRebel   2021 Jan 13, 9:45am  

31   GNL   2021 Jan 13, 10:01am  

NoCoupForYou says

Damn, they be smart in Canada.
32   NuttBoxer   2021 Jan 13, 11:18am  

GreaterNYCDudeIsLookingForAJob says
As for comobidities, yeah they were involved in the person that passed, but the covid put them "over the top" so to speak. No doubt about it.

Let's face it most of techincally have at least one comorbidity be it age, asthma, high blood pressure, weight, diabetes, whatever. Stuff that under normal conditions can be managed. Were not exactly a flock of 20 somethings....


First, sincerely sorry for your loss. And I don't care why someone dies, their death should be respected, and not politicized. They're people, not stats or pawns.

I do think you may have been taught that a low quality of life is the norm, and acceptable though, and I'd like to encourage you that this is absolutely false. My family has practiced preventive health for 10 years. We almost never get sick, almost never have or use health insurance, and have almost no chronic conditions. My wife and oldest daughter were both born with asthma, but as we've journeyed down the road of prevention, their symptoms have subsided to the point where I can't remember the last time either one used an inhaler.
So no, not everyone lives with chronic sickness. But, yes, for those that do, anything can be the straw that breaks the camels back. Your immune system can only stand so much abuse before it caves and you die. I encourage you to raise your bar on health, and I hope those you know do as well, so you never have to lose another person close to you for preventable reasons.
33   NuttBoxer   2021 Jan 13, 11:23am  

The fact that many of us don't know people who have been sick doesn't mean there isn't a real disease affecting people, no one is saying that. We're just providing evidence that classifying this as a pandemic seems overblown, if not outright fraud. It's the approach that's the issue, not the disease.
34   GNL   2021 Jan 13, 11:26am  

NuttBoxer says
My family has practiced preventive health for 10 years.

It would be wonderful if you did a post on this.
35   Onvacation   2021 Jan 13, 11:37am  

NuttBoxer says
We're just providing evidence that classifying this as a pandemic seems overblown, if not outright fraud. It's the approach that's the issue, not the disease.

The unprecedented approach!

This is tyranny, plain and simple. Look what is happening in Britain and the commonwealth with their covid laws. Coming to a police encounter near you.
36   Robert Sproul   2021 Jan 13, 12:18pm  

I know exactly one.
Unpleasantly ill for a week, sought medical advice only because he has a heart condition and was worried based on a year of non-stop media fear porn. No residual problems.
Speaking of which, Post Viral Syndrome was not something talked about much before Covid but lingering effects, due largely to the inflammatory response I believe, from the Flu and other viruses was common. This could include increased risk for heart attack/stroke, secondary infections, and fatigue syndromes like Guillain Barre.
I have a pal that had the flu in the 80’s and complains that he has never felt completely recovered.
37   Onvacation   2021 Jan 13, 12:20pm  

I had the chicken pox as an adult and my lung capacity was never the same. Should have got it when I was a kid.
38   Patrick   2021 Jan 13, 1:03pm  

I also drives me nuts that people continuously conflate CASE fatality rate with INFECTION fatality rate.

The CASE fatality rate is the rate of death among people who present themselves for treatment, about 1.4%. They are usually seriously ill.

The INFECTION fatality rate is only 0.3% because the majority of infected people never get sick enough to see a doctor, or even to know that they were sick at all.

It's important that people know that even if everyone in the US were infected, nowhere near 4.3 million would die!

It would be more like 330,000,000 x 0.003 = 990,000

This is a 4.6x difference.
39   GlocknLoad   2021 Jan 13, 1:44pm  

Patrick says
I also drives me nuts that people continuously conflate CASE fatality rate with INFECTION fatality rate.

The CASE fatality rate is the rate of death among people who present themselves for treatment, about 1.4%. They are usually seriously ill.

The INFECTION fatality rate is only 0.3% because the majority of infected people never get sick enough to see a doctor, or even to know that they were sick at all.

It's important that people know that even if everyone in the US were infected, nowhere near 4.3 million would die!

It would be more like 330,000,000 x 0.003 = 990,000

This is a 4.6x difference.

And that's if we are even to believe how the deaths are counted. Lies upon lies.
40   WookieMan   2021 Jan 13, 2:14pm  

G36 says
Two people (40's) I know indirectly died but they were obese.

Don't know the time NoCoup's graph above was pulled. But you're saying you know 2 of the ~5,300 people 35-44 that have died from Covid out of a nation of 330M+? 0.0016 of people that age have died in the country. The odds of you knowing 2 are almost zero.

Obesity with Covid is generally not the cause at 40. It usually much more severe illnesses such as Cancer. Even morbidly obese 40 year olds are not dying from covid. You have a better chance of being struck by lightening and living versus knowing two 40 year olds that died from Covid.

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