The regular flu does kill more elderly. Yes that’s true. Unlike the regular flu, corona also kills babies at the same rate it kills the elderly.
Ignore this post. Children don’t die as often.
So yes, all the baby boomers are reaching the cut off of the “at risk population of 60 or over”
The question then is not the number of people who die, but the percentage of people who die.
This is what’s known about corona.
Nobody on earth is immune to corona, though some are astmptomatic. This means that corona spreads differently than a usual flu.
With a usual flu, one person will sneeze in a room of 8 people and only 3 will catch it. With corona, all 8 people catch it.
Second, the mortality rate is 5 to 10 times higher than the normal flu. The current US rate is not simply outpacing by numbers, but by percentage.
A cognitive thing?
A case of the old intrinsic values and ways not working in our current, and therefore future, epoch, eon, and era? and that doesn’t mean civil war, uprisings, and mindless public homicide, but more thoughtful ways of handling our collective ‘human’ business.
Perhaps leave it down to the individual? although it is mandatory on public transport and other such State-run domains, in favour of the safety of all concerned, of staff and public alike.
Let’s assume that’s true. Masks were implemented, deaths from surgery plummeted. How do you know there is a causal relation between the two? In other words, how do you know it’s masks (and not something else you are possibly not even aware of) that resulted in fewer deaths?
Beside that, how do you explain all the scientific studies that show that masks are ineffective? Perhaps they don’t exist at all and are merely made up? or maybe they do exist but are flawed?
This is science dude.
Masks do not prevent you from getting infections (that’s hand washing), masks keep you from spreading it to others!!!
Do you really not believe germs were discovered hundreds of years ago?!?!
The first person who presumably discovered germs was Nostradamus … he always washed his hands after treating plague victims! He never died from the plague (as a plague doctor!)
Then it must be true.
But but but! For some reason, you missed the part where I said “I’ve been told that scientific studies show that masks are neither effective as self-protection nor for source control (i.e. protecting other people.)”
Irrelevant.
Magnus,
It’s well known that after prolonged exposure, what’s called ‘aerosolization’ will infect a person.
Sneezes, coughs, even breathing.
A reply, to a post on the WHO’s Facebook page…
“Avoid crowded places. Wear your mask and a surgical one if possible. It prevents both you and people around you from infection. Even if an droplet falls on the eye the eye has something called vitreous humour which effectively protects it from reaching the nasal cavity. Think about it, we would have a billion cases by now if transmission had indeed been airborne. There’s a good chance we can bear this yet with masking up.“
Looks like more bad news for the world…
[b]China reports NEW unknown disease spreading across Asian country deadlier than COVID-19
CHINESE officials have warned of a fatal “unknown pneumonia” with a death rate higher than the coronavirus COVID-19 which is spreading across an Asian country.[/b]
Areas in Kazakhstan have seen major spikes in cases of the disease since mid-June. The country’s Health Ministry said it recorded more than 32,000 cases of a previously unknown type of pneumonia between 29 June and 5 July with 451 deaths
What is the universal mathematical language for ‘HELP’? you know it wouldnt be a bad idea for SETI scientists to start sending distress calls into outer space.
Let’s get Silhouette and Magnus on it, right now! We need the final translation in different formats, as we can’t take any chances on translation at their end.
The world is already border-isolated, so at least we’ve all already got that going for us and in our favour, but not so much for China, Mongolia, and the rest of the near-East. 
I’m halting all my orders from eBay China! can’t take any chances right now.
Imma tell you what’s so fucked up about this. I should he able to exile myself from civilization and find me a spot in the mountains until this thing blows over. That should be my right. But I cant do it because it’d be illegal. So essentially I am being forcibly trapped to exist in proximity to a bunch of virus carrying idiots.
So it is pneumonia, then? at least that much is clear and has been confirmed.
No pneumonia is a condition of a disease caused by a virus. Its not a virus itself. And it’s common for viruses to cause it due to the lungs being the first and most perfect port of entry. Pneumonia is a build up of fluids due to inflammation interfering with fluid circulation (or something like that).
But there is no pneumonia virus or bacteria. I’m pretty fuckin sure.
Did I say that there was? Putting words in my mouth?
The end result is pneumonia, or death by pneumonia… either way, it’s not the preferable choice of illness or demise.
The ‘it’ in the ending statement when they say ‘it was standard pneumonia’ can be inferred to mean the actual virus rather than the disease. That wasn’t clarified in the way the article ended. Was written like it implied the existence of a pneumonia virus. That’s why I replied like I did. Wuddint sayin you wuz sayin it.
I see and agree… the article ends up implying that it’s your common garden variety of pneumonia, as opposed to some super-virus induced pneumonia, ergo… it’s standard pneumonia.
A stale mate for now, between those States, until one of them can prove otherwise.