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my corona

#1 Post by Zollern » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:17 pm

Is good beer but seriously I have gathered some information that might make listening to the news a bit more tolerable when they show these humongous fear factor numbers on TV all day:

World population for 2017 = 7.5 Billion. 7,500,000,000.
Daily Worldwide Deaths, all causes for 2017 = ~150,000. Per DAY.

US population for 2017 = 326 Million. 326,000,000.
Daily USA Deaths, all causes for 2017 = 7,708. Per DAY.

Daily USA Deaths, from new corona virus = only ~50 (latest) for whole country.

Daily USA Deaths, from drug overdose, 2017 ~ 190.
Daily USA Deaths, from Suicide, 2018 ~ 130.
Daily USA Deaths, from Heart Disease, 2017 ~ 1800.

Number of critically ill people in the US in ICUs, at any given time, for all causes, 2010 estimate = 64,000.

Total ICU beds in US ~ 95,000, 68% occupied. This leaves ~30,000 available ICU beds in the US. 2010 estimate.

Number of people that get the Flu every year in the US, high estimate, 2019 = 51 Million. 51,000,000.

Number of people that go to the doctor for Flu in the US, high estimate, 2019 = 25 Million. 25,000,000.

Number of people that are hospitalized in the US because of the Flu, high estimate, 2019 = 710,000.

Number of people that die from the Flu in the US, high estimate, 2019 = 59,000.

Number of people that died from the new corona virus in China ~3000.

Keep these numbers in mind when they keep dramatizing everything in the Fake News. ex.) 200,000 CASES. OOOOOHHH SCARY! There were 51,000,000 cases of regular flu. Total new corona virus cases in THE WORLD, mind you, are ONLY 0.4% of the Flu Cases in the USA Alone!!! So it's Nothing!

To put some numbers into words:

Every day, 150,000 people die in the world. In the US, nearly 8000 people die every day. The corona virus is causing 50 deaths per day currently in the US. Worldwide, at maximum, the virus was causing ~817 deaths per day. This is less than the number of people in the US that are critically ill and succumb to cancer EVERY DAY ~ 1600.

There are ~95,000 ICU beds in the US. Occupancy rates for all the ICU beds was 68% in 2010, so ~30,000 ICU beds are likely currently available in the US. https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Cri ... Statistics

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#2 Post by Donny Dude » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:25 pm

K, but the flu has a nice vaccine and it is the first time for this virus. Also, cases are being unreported due to lack of tests/urgency. There is a hospital in Italy packed to the brim with patients. There is also a video of that floating around.
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#3 Post by Donny Dude » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:32 pm

Finally, the California governor predicted that 56% or 22 million Americans in just California would have the coronavirus in the next two months. If only 1% of those need ventilators and icu then that is 200,000 people who need an icu.
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#4 Post by Zollern » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:51 pm

Finally, they already closed the new hospital in China.

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#5 Post by Donny Dude » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:59 pm

Zollern wrote:
Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:51 pm
Finally, they already closed the new hospital in China.
It was meant to be one post, but still.
Chin literally walled off whole cities to stop the virus and it still spread outside of its borders. I would not take data from either government at face value. Oregon ran out of tests and people who have all the symptoms cannot get tested.

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#6 Post by Yonni » Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:01 pm

You're comparing it the wrong list. Use this one instead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_d ... death_toll

I think it's callus to minimize thousands of preventable deaths but to each their own, I guess.

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#7 Post by Octavious » Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:24 pm

In what strange and twisted world is Corona good beer? It's very much what you have when the draft beer is unavailable and all that's left in the fridge is Corona, Coors Light, and some God-awful thing from the Middle East. If you add enough lime it tastes a little like lime. That's all you can say for it.

It's not the worst beer in the world, of course. The worst beer in the world is Sol, which we we're given a crate of at Christmas by a bastard of an uncle and is still occupying a corner of the downstairs loo because we literally can't give the shite away. Add as much lime as you can and it still tastes like feckin' Sol. It's more of a texture than a flavour. If you discovered it would cure the Coronavirus you'd still hesitate before drinking it.
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#8 Post by Donny Dude » Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:28 pm

How bad is sol compared to Corona ,which tastes and looks like urine?
What is the sol taste?

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