Covid-19 Poll (UPDATE 9 Aug 2020: new poll questions)

[jeba 4,364]

11 hours ago, balticus said:

For school aged kids, the risk of dying from COVID is lower than the risk of  dying from commuting to and from school

Yes, but is the same true for those to who they pass it on?

[Keleth 9,348]

3 hours ago, jeba said:

Paranoia much?

Nope just healthily cynical of people in power.

Yer perhaps you`re right they really look after their peoples when it`s going well so why on earth change when it`s going bad.

 

[Keleth 9,348]

2 hours ago, jeba said:

Yes, but is the same true for those to who they pass it on?

Doesn`t matter to Balticus as long as he sticks to Trumps preaching he`s happy.

[Guest]

12 hours ago, jeba said:

Yes, but is the same true for those to who they pass it on?

 

Isolate the people who are vulnerable rather than everyone.  

 

 

[jeba 4,364]

1 hour ago, balticus said:

 

Isolate the people who are vulnerable rather than everyone. 

Easier said than done. We don´t even know yet the full list of factors predisposing you for higher risk.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, jeba said:

Easier said than done. We don´t even know yet the full list of factors predisposing you for higher risk.

 

That is not to say that there is no idea which groups have a higher risk.   There is lots of data.   There is probably lots of non-public data about the demographics of the people classed by severity of symptoms.  

 

Here is something from the NHS which is probably not much different from most Health Ministries:

 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at-higher-risk/whos-at-higher-risk-from-coronavirus/

[Rushrush 303]

Just discussing the Christmas dinner with a group I'm part of, and I asked if it's possible for everyone, including staff to get a covid test ahead of time. That made me realize that this will be part of managing the pandemic regular Covid tests. At this point everyone is still hoping for a "cure" aka vaccine, but that isn't realistic. Unlike SARS there is simply no way we can defeat Covid anymore than we've defeated AIDs. We've simply learned to live with it. What I can see happening is an instant Covid test so if much like your bag gets checked before going to the theatre I can see you getting an instant covid test before a concert or football game. The way is to emulate what the porn industry does, every 2 weeks performers have to take a mandatory AIDs test. Man of man I never thought I'd be able to use that bit of trivia ever!!!!

 

They're going to have to do this soon as I don't see how any travel tourism/hospitality business surviving the winter!

 

 

[catjones 1,720]

17 minutes ago, Rushrush said:

I asked if it's possible for everyone, including staff to get a covid test ahead of time

 

If you're that concerned about being in a group, then stay home.  The test becomes invalid the moment you come into contact with another person.  Do you think the guests will be tested at the door?

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you can't get AIDS from attending a concert or football game or drinking from your friend's glass or sitting next to someone at work, that is about the dumbest analogy for either of those things I have ever heard.  I hope you own helmets.

[keith2011 2,707]

37 minutes ago, Rushrush said:

 At this point everyone is still hoping for a "cure" aka vaccine, but that isn't realistic. Unlike SARS there is simply no way we can defeat Covid

 

 

Disregarding the Aids analogy I am curious to know what is your basis for that statement?

[RedMidge 6,638]

43 minutes ago, catjones said:

 

If you're that concerned about being in a group, then stay home.  The test becomes invalid the moment you come into contact with another person.  Do you think the guests will be tested at the door?

Exactly!

And to  Rush- no, we have not defeated Aids. We have been able to treat it with a drug combination.   Modified behaviour from vulnerable people, better testing of blood products, less use of whole blood,  centres for drug addicts/needle exchanges. Aids is also not spread in the same way as Covid 19 ( or SARS before).

So, truly a poor analogy.

[Keleth 9,348]

 

3 hours ago, catjones said:

  The test becomes invalid the moment you come into contact with another person. 

Depends on if everyone in the group has been tested.

[Keleth 9,348]

4 hours ago, Rushrush said:

We've simply learned to live with it

Simply learning to live with Covid could mean masks and social distancing for all time.

Despite your crap analogy "we" learned to live with  AIDS because the people in the risk groups were helped and learned how to change their actions that put them in a risk group.Masks and abstand could be the covid equivalent of that.My life during and after the  AIDS outbreak has not changed at all so "we" didn`t really learn to live with it.

[katheliz 17,879]

On 8/6/2020, 11:42:53, LukeSkywalker said:

This is how sheep think:

 

American mid-20th century poet Delmore Schwartz had serious mental problems. His girlfriend said to him once, 'Delmore - you're such a paranoid!'

Schwartz responded, 'Even paranoids have real enemies.'
 

[LukeSkywalker 7,662]

You can stop the poll, because the Russians did it:

 

[jeba 4,364]

5 hours ago, LukeSkywalker said:

You can stop the poll, because the Russians did it:

 

Yes, after testing it in 38 patients and before phase III trials have even started. Mindboggling.

[El Jeffo 42,135]

On 8/9/2020, 12:56:56, Rushrush said:

An option I didn't see is "I'm a lockdown skeptic, that would be me.

 

As an aside why the hell is everyone NOW mandating masks when the death/inflection rates are falling. Why not at the beginning when it matter.

 

Today in "posts that have aged poorly".