Thread: The C. Virus and human reaction

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Bob, we don't have enough information to know what the residual effects will be on lungs. I do notice that people who have a pre-existing lung disorder (COPD, asthma) are at much greater risk of the negative effects of this infection. But their lungs were affected before the Covid19 appeared. I agree that coughing without illness could persist for weeks. Each year I see a viral infection about this time of year too, where I work, that has older adults coughing quite longer than young people.

Was only going by what the Doc in the link was saying in that it might effect some younger healthy individuals adversely too. Know what you mean by viral infections of the lungs. A while ago an old neighbour of ours was in intensive care for that. When he recovered his Doc told him if he had not been young and healthy it is likely he would have died. As it is the Doc told him it may take up to 2 years for him to feel normal again. From what I can gather most people who get infected by Covid 19 will have it so severely but some in even the younger healthy age groups may get a severe dose. Just thinking nobody should take this pandemic as lightly as they have been. I do not think governments around the world have done a good job of conveying the realities to the general public.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Was only going by what the Doc in the link was saying...I do not think governments around the world have done a good job of conveying the realities to the general public. Bob

No problem. It's too early to tell yet. It's true, if exposed, you don't know what your body will do. You might have a case but never know. There are so few tests available that only high risk or priority cases are tested. That skews the statistics.

If numbers mean anything, in China, they seem to have passed the peak in two ways. There are less daily new cases and less daily sick cases requiring hospital care. That's really good news. It gives the rest of the world a time estimate of when their peak case rate will occur. A factor in the US is that there was an unfortunate delay in developing tests that had problems rather than buying a good test already available. If we can test more then we will have a good idea of how many real cases of Covid19 are here versus people with bad colds. Then we all will have a better idea of accurate percentages.

I agree this is not an illness to take lightly. But the main variable is ignorance/panic and that is based on good information vs bad information. I do not apologize for having very high expectations of our leadership to provide the truth to us when life and death is on the line. I am sensitive to the fact that you can't just gut punch everyone either. But when dribs and drabs of information come out, they should all be in agreement, they should all be valid, reliable and credible and the source as well. Those who fan the flames should be held accountable for wasting time and resources and putting us all a risk even more than we are.

In general I applaud individual and corporate business and industry leaders who have simply made the decisions to take an economic hit in favor of their customers and employees when they got no direction at all. Even so, waiting on government leadership (so-called) wasted precious time. Europe seems to be ahead of the problem despite more cases per 1000. They had to take more harsh measures of population control. But politics seems to take last place in their decision making too.

Each of us should get as much good information as we can get our hands on. Then make up our own minds without relying on the more hyperbolic newsies or politicians to tell us what we should be doing. There is a lot that one person can do to affect this situation, then two, then families then communities. Be an example, preferably a good one, to those you know who are scared.