Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[TheDarceKnight]

I think we disagree. I read "peak" to mean the maximum amount of people who will get the disease. When you see the curve it is either flat - and extended (long peak) or short and very steep (30 day).
you can read both totals as the same number of people just over different time periods.
Peak does not mean no one else gets it because of a cure - it means no one else left to get it because most people are immune from exposure (already getting it)
Someone correct me if I am wrong but we definitely don't want this to peak early because that means more people die from the system collapsing.

Re: the bold that is absolutely right. An early peak would be incredibly bad because that means a ton of people will get it all at once and the system won't be able to handle it. Ideally we'd like to extend the peak out and 'flatten that curve' so you are spot on.

Edit: @the cac mamba If the same number of people were destined to get it for example, we would want to extend that time period as long as possible, as opposed to having them all get it in a short time span.

 

[Chronic]

I think we disagree. I read "peak" to mean the maximum amount of people who will get the disease. When you see the curve it is either flat - and extended (long peak) or short and very steep (30 day).
you can read both totals as the same number of people just over different time periods.
Peak does not mean no one else gets it because of a cure - it means no one else left to get it because most people are immune from exposure (already getting it)
Someone correct me if I am wrong but we definitely don't want this to peak early because that means more people die from the system collapsing.

you're right if the peaks are the same. The idea behind flattening the curve is that you have a lower peak, later, saving more lives and keeping the outbreak at manageable levels
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it's not semantics creh, it's epidemiology

I thought it refer to something like this

Faster peak = less infecteds

And medical shyt in auto factories sounds like some end of the world shyt

 

[blotter]

I know we will never do it, but the more I think about it we should be empowering kids. They are all but immune and can deliver shyt on bikes and fukk it 8th grade and up get behind the wheel. House them all together in a school, put one kid in charge of taking temps coming and going. This is our next generation and putting trust in their hands would do so much good for the future

Obviously venting here, but we just dont think outside of the box as a society

 

[KillbertArenas]

you got some citations to back this up? a background in epidemiology?

Youre refuting me so do you have a background in common sense?

 

[Reality Check]

They're really going through with a Q&A here huh

 

[JLova]

July? August? Wtf?

 

[F K]

Youre refuting me so do you have a background in common sense?

This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works

Later peak = less deaths in 1918 when you compare philly with st louis

 

[KillbertArenas]

This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works

Later peak = less deaths in 1918 when you compare philly with st louis

What does that have to do with what I said?

Please provide the correlation

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Why this is happening. Not my nikka stringer bell. This sucks brehs

In some good news, Tom Hanks is recovering really well supposedly, and he's almost 15 years older than Idris.

Still scared for him, but he seems like he's in good shape () and I hope he recovers fast.

 

[Czerka]

I think people will settle down once they see these celebrities recover without complications

 

[choc_cardigan]

I think people will settle down once they see these celebrities recover without complications

Or you can gtfoh either way. There's a bar with a party full of Corona beers calling you

 

[F K]

What does that have to do with what I said?

Please provide the correlation

you said an earlier peak (30 days) is better than a later peak (90 days) but most of the research concludes that earlier peaks lead to more deaths. are you using a metric other than deaths to determine what "better" is?

 

[Jigganaut]

Not a lick of empathy in this man

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I think people will settle down once they see these celebrities recover without complications

By the time that happens they will also be getting slammed with numbers of infected and dead U.S. citizens.

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

I think people will settle down once they see these celebrities recover without complications

Celebrities have a lot of money and resources tho.

If one of them died, the public would flip out I ain’t gonna lie lol