Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[Belsnickel]

(09-16-2020, 02:26 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: EDIT****  I will add this, if 60% of all people have comorbitities and are truly at risk, then why is such a small amount of people effected out of the 6.61M?  Once you subtract elderly and elderly with comorbitities I believe you at far less than 100,000.  Again, showing the risk is minimal.

This is one of those things about it being a new virus that makes it so uncertain. One theory that some epidemiologists have put forth is that probably close to half of the population has some degree of immunity that lessens the impact. The common cold is not one virus, but many that produce similar symptoms. That's why there will never be a cure for it. Anyway, a handful of the viruses that produce the disease we know as the common cold are in the coronavirus family. Because of this, if you have had one of those viruses then your immune system can more easily identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus which leads to a lower impact illness or an asymptomatic one.

We also have to stop only looking at the deaths. People, young and healthy people, are having serious damage done to their bodies as a result of this disease. It is impacting their cardiovascular and respiratory systems in ways that may be permanent and irreparable.