So coronavirus is definitely going to kill a few of us.

[splitthis]

1 in 20 hospitalization sounds a little concerning tbh. is it really that high?

Only if you wear tinfoil.

[splitthis]

one could interpret the last 24 hours events as trump starting a war with china which he thinks will save the economy and distract people from his incompetence while codifying as law his use of sosh media as a propaganda instrument to spin his subterfuge to team retard.

looking forward to team retard protesting the new stay at home order because a little radioactive fallout will mostly kill the weak, mostly.

Antennas now on tinfoil.

[Sanlmar]

Residential pool installations are going through the roof in New England.

Caught me by surprise.

[Dan Druff]

Residential pool installations are going through the roof in New England.

Caught me by surprise.

Any industry involving people doing things at home is thriving.

Pools are part of that, online games are part of that, online gambling is part of that, and even weird things like yeast and flour (because people are making their own bread and baking more often) are part of that.

Also, nostalgia for things in the past has increased greatly, which is why people are watching old movies and TV shows at a far greater rate than before, and baseball cards are way up in value.

[sonatine]

pro life, unless.....

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https://twitter.com/twt/status/1265822183692984320

[dwai]

God, remember when twitter was new and fun, before it turned into a liberal haven echo chamber where they can share their virtue signaling, faux outrage and fake news, with their pronouns and their check marks, i mean can just any fag get a check mark now? Seems that way.

[Walter Sobchak]

pro life, unless.....

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https://twitter.com/twt/status/1265822183692984320

Quick, get me my smallpox-infested blanket.

[OSA]

Residential pool installations are going through the roof in New England.

Caught me by surprise.

Not me. Ive been trying to pitch AR software to guys like these as well as gun manufacturers. Earliest to get pool installed in Long Island is in August. They are all sold out

[zealanddonk]

God, remember when twitter was new and fun, before it turned into a liberal haven echo chamber where they can share their virtue signaling, faux outrage and fake news, with their pronouns and their check marks, i mean can just any fag get a check mark now? Seems that way.

Remember when American Presidents even had the most basic idea of what the 1st amendment was.

[dwai]

God, remember when twitter was new and fun, before it turned into a liberal haven echo chamber where they can share their virtue signaling, faux outrage and fake news, with their pronouns and their check marks, i mean can just any fag get a check mark now? Seems that way.

Remember when American Presidents even had the most basic idea of what the 1st amendment was.

Listen fag, if we ever want advice from a woman leader we'll ask New Zealand, until then keep your nose out of US politics, got it?

[RichardBrodiesCombover.]

Remember when American Presidents even had the most basic idea of what the 1st amendment was.

Listen fag, if we ever want advice from a woman leader we'll ask new Zealand, until them keep your nose out of US politics, got it?

lol simmer down little guy

[dwai]

Listen fag, if we ever want advice from a woman leader we'll ask new Zealand, until them keep your nose out of US politics, got it?

lol simmer down little guy

Triggered

[RichardBrodiesCombover.]

lol simmer down little guy

Triggered

Well duh

[Dan Druff]

Let's get away from politics for a second here.

Being in my late 40s, I've been particularly interest in the effect of the virus on my age group. From what I can tell, it is fairly common to have severe, debilitating symptoms, which ultimately don't result in death, but are both a horrendous experience and might be causing permanent lung damage.

At the same time, people in their early 30s, while only 15 years younger, seem to mostly experience mild symptoms.

How could it be so different, given that both age groups (early 30s and late 40s) have a very low mortality rate under normal circumstances, and both age groups tend to be mostly healthy?

Simply put, what is so different about a 32-year-old's body from a 47-year-old's body to cause such a stark difference in symptom severity?

I don't have an answer for this, but if you think about professional athletes, it makes more sense. No matter how good they are, and no matter how hard they train, professional athletes tend to slowly decline starting from the early-mid 30s, and by 40, they are a shell of their former selves. There's the occasional outlier like Tom Brady, but some of that is position-dependent. You're never going to see a 43-year-old superstar NBA point guard, for example.

It has always fascinated me that this is so consistent. Something clearly changes in the human body around that age, which saps even the best athletes of their abilities.

However, for the rest of us, we aren't in daily athletic competitions with the very best in the world, so our own declines are less noticeable. But we all experience such a decline, and I think that our susceptibility to severe symptoms of COVID-19 might be something similar. Something changes in our bodies starting around 35 which makes us far more susceptible to this virus.



By the way, a stupid statistic has been going around in the past week, regarding the low chance of death for "people aged 0-55 in the US".

That idiotic statistic bothers me because the range is absurdly broad, and because we know the death rate for 45-55 is WAY higher than 0-25, so including that almost-never-dying huge segment in with the middle-aged population is very misleading and dishonest.

Why not take it a step further and tell people that the death rate of people 0-99 is under 1%, so 99-year-olds need not worry?

Also, the whole "death rate" thing kinda bothers me anyway, because this is a virus which is believed to cause permanent lung damage as a result of severe symptoms, so you can't look at death rate the same way you can with the flu, the latter of which tends to come and go with no permanent harm if it doesn't kill you.

[Salty_Aus]

Let's get away from politics for a second here.

Being in my late 40s, I've been particularly interest in the effect of the virus on my age group. From what I can tell, it is fairly common to have severe, debilitating symptoms, which ultimately don't result in death, but are both a horrendous experience and might be causing permanent lung damage.

At the same time, people in their early 30s, while only 15 years younger, seem to mostly experience mild symptoms.

How could it be so different, given that both age groups (early 30s and late 40s) have a very low mortality rate under normal circumstances, and both age groups tend to be mostly healthy.

Simply put, what is so different about a 32-year-old's body from a 47-year-old's body to cause such a stark difference in symptom severity?

I don't have an answer for this, but if you think about professional athletes, it makes more sense. No matter how good they are, and no matter how hard they train, professional athletes tend to slowly decline starting from the early-mid 30s, and by 40, they are a shell of their former selves. There's the occasional outlier like Tom Brady, but some of that is position-dependent. You're never going to see a 43-year-old superstar NBA point guard, for example.

It has always fascinated me that this is so consistent. Something clearly changes in the human body around that age, which saps even the best athletes of their abilities.

However, for the rest of us, we aren't in daily athletic competitions with the very best in the world, so our own declines are less noticeable. But we all experience such a decline, and I think that our susceptibility to severe symptoms of COVID-19 might be something similar. Something changes in our bodies starting around 35 which makes us far more susceptible to this virus.



By the way, a stupid statistic has been going around in the past week, regarding the low chance of death for "people aged 0-55 in the US".

That idiotic statistic bothers me because the range is absurdly broad, and because we know the death rate for 45-55 is WAY higher than 0-25, so including that almost-never-dying huge segment in with the middle-aged population is very misleading and dishonest.

Why not take it a step further and tell people that the death rate of people 0-99 is under 1%, so 99-year-olds need not worry?

Also, the whole "death rate" thing kinda bothers me anyway, because this is a virus which is believed to cause permanent lung damage as a result of severe symptoms, so you can't look at death rate the same way you can with the flu, the latter of which tends to come and go with no permanent harm if it doesn't kill you.

The thymus shrinks about 2% per year during middle age.
Being a new virus, I'm going to guess that T cells are critical... older we are the less we have.

[Jayjami]

80% of cases are mild, 15% severe, 5% require ICU. Less than 1% deaths. Over 70% of deaths are nursing home patients. Shutting down all of life lol 100%.

Wearing useless masks lol.

Fauci is a criminal.

Taking medical advice from a splitthis is like taking legal advice from Druff. Do so at your own peril.

[TheXFactor]

Once a nursing home gets infected, many more elderly patients also get infected and many old people die. Staff in the nursing homes don't know how to properly wash hands and use PPE gear.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo decision to keep infected seniors in nursing homes killed a lot of them.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis decision to remove infected seniors from nursing homes saved a lot of lives.

[MumblesBadly]

Who else is pissed off about this???



I mean, seriously! It’s “goalpost”! No wonder Trump calls MSNBC “fake news”!!!

[nightmarefish]

Once a nursing home gets infected, many more elderly patients also get infected and many old people die. Staff in the nursing homes don't know how to properly wash hands and use PPE gear.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo decision to keep infected seniors in nursing homes killed a lot of them.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis decision to remove infected seniors from nursing homes saved a lot of lives.

Na, this is first level thinking. It’s Trump’s fault, ask atine. Cuomo hasn’t done anything wrong.

[JimmyG_415]

WTF? There was a segment on Fox that said they don't know how to wash their hands and you just buy that?
Why even type something stupid like that? Like they are just a special breed of humans, that aren't able to learn to wash their hands?


Yeah Florida is doing an amazing job on Corona Virus, but simultaneously having had the worst pneumonia outbreak in history????
DeSanits is cooking the books. He will do whatever, even lie to the public, to keep in Trump good graces. Anyone associated w/Trump has Trust issues.

Whatever preconditions you want to say these people had, fine, but they were LIVING w/those conditions.
I'll admit the virus was the nail in the coffin a lot of times, but also the killer.


Spike in pneumonia deaths in Florida shows an earlier, deadlier arrival of coronavirus, experts say
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronav...zze-story.html
South Florida state senator wants coronavirus data investigation
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/po...j4q-story.html

Staff in the nursing homes don't know how to properly wash hands and use PPE gear.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo decision to keep infected seniors in nursing homes killed a lot of them.

Florida Governor Ron Desantis decision to remove infected seniors from nursing homes saved a lot of lives.