This one i appreciated ok

France closing restaurants

The end is near.

I hope you've stockpiled enough toilet paper

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 14 2020 01:11pm

With the end of days theme permeating my conscious, I've taken to rewatching the Chernobyl HBO miniseries.

So just had a call with my sister (doctor working in a hospital in NL). She confirms that we really shouldn't be treating this as a 'old and sick people' thing, several people aged ~30-40 and without comorbidities are currently permanently on ventilation in Brabant. The 80% with mild symptoms still holds. Hospitals here are preparing for the worst, as it seems that people first get their incubation period (~2 weeks), then experience mild illness, and only then develop the need for ventilation. ICU's are being modified to become temporary sick bays with as many ventilators as possible.

So even for us young folks it can be pretty fucking scary.

Age 30-40 is where the lethality curve actually gets off the ground. According to the CDC slides I got at work it goes something like

>80 : 15%
70-80 : 8%
60-70 : 5%
50-60 : 2.5%
40-50 : 1%
30-40 : 0.5%

It's mostly an older people thing, but not exclusively, especially since like 80% of the cases are in the 30-70 rang, so most of the lethality will still be in the lower age ranges.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Mar 14 2020 01:37pm

I recommend contagion 2011, funny when they open the head of the bitch for the autopsy.

What, precisely, do you believe I'm being educated on? Because I can enunciate exactly what I've laid out for you.

All comes down to immune systems.

Except it doesn't, as young people without comorbidities can still get severely sick and even die.