Poll of the Day > I feel like people just keep getting more and more reactionary

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Everything is getting cancelled for a virus with a minuscule chance of death, its frustrating seeing every god damn sports league cancel/postpone everything, just play without fans and test the players. Nothing got like this for ebola just a few years ago, it didn't get like this for the zika virus or swine flu or bird flu or any of the other deadlier outbreaks in recent memory, what makes this one the one that everything gets canceled for?

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We should cancel this thread next.
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Muscles posted...

what makes this one the one that everything gets canceled for?

the fact that 30 million people are going to die from this

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

the fact that 30 million people are going to die from this

Citation needed.
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Start cancelling life

https://2eu.funnyjunk.com/comments/+_23f57c6ea6205078d1836a9f135fd086.mp4

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Muscles posted...

Everything is getting cancelled for a virus with a minuscule chance of death

you dont understand the kind of impact that virus will have on society, its a lot more than just the death toll

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Mead posted...

you dont understand the kind of impact that virus will have on society, its a lot more than just the death toll

Elaborate

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rexcrk posted...

Elaborate

One it takes weeks/months to recover from it.
Two if you get it really bad you need to be on a respirator for the duration, eating up precious hospital resources.
Three it permanently fucks up your lungs.

So if you get it and don't die, enjoy being in medical debt forever!

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rexcrk posted...

Elaborate

even if just 1-2% of infected people become seriously ill, that is rapidly gonna fill hospitals and care centers to capacity meaning it will become difficult for anyone to get access to healthcare for anything, not to mention all the healthcare workers that might get sick even when following best practices in the workplace

tons of people are going to need to self quarantine as well which means they may not be able to work, cant afford to pay their bills and a lot of people are already struggling

a lot of businesses can ride this out but a ton of small businesses and some larger companies might get shut down entirely by this

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month about what might happen if the new coronavirus gained a foothold in the United States. How many people might die? How many would be infected and need hospitalization?

The C.D.C.s scenarioswere depicted in terms of percentages of the population. Translated into absolute numbers by independent experts using simple models of how viruses spread, the worst-case figures would be staggering if no actions were taken to slow transmission.

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nations medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.

The Times obtained screenshots of the C.D.C. presentation, which has not been released publicly, from someone not involved in the meetings. The Times then verified the data with several scientists who did participate. The scenarios were marked valid until Feb. 28, but remain roughly the same, according to Ira Longini, co-director of the Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases at the University of Florida.

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Muscles posted...

its frustrating seeing every god damn sports league cancel/postpone everything, just play without fans and test the players.

In that case let's just push on ahead because Muscles must see his game. Sarcasm aside though I agree they can play without a crowd. Wrestling shows are doing it without a crowd. WWE have WrestleMania 36 in around three weeks and will have to find a solution to that or outright cancel for now. Personally I think WWE will go ahead but without a crowd and that will be weird. It's understandable whatever they do. Containing this outbreak is the most important thing regardless of how you think it'll effect YOU.


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