Don't be a dope.

5,964 views • 16 upvotes • Made by anonymous 5 years ago in fun

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Triumph_9
1 up, 5y, 1 reply
Good to see someone posting a meme that actually takes the issue seriously. I'm getting sick of all the Corona jokes on this site.
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1 up, 5y, 1 reply
Tnx Triumph_9.  I figure a lot of people see these posts.  Maybe we can save a life or two.
Godofmemers
1 up, 5y, 2 replies
Actually it kills 2% of people over the age of 70, 0.25% of kids and 1% of adults
Bossmann1267
0 ups, 5y
More people died to a car crash today than people who died to the corona virus this year.....
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
why do you say "actually"?
Godofmemers
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
Because from my point of view you are saying it’s really bad but it’s not that bad
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y
i said deadlier than the flu, which it is (kills about twenty times as many people per 1000 infected compared to the flu), and it has an epidemic growth trajectory, which it does.  people seem to be looking at the net infections to date and the death toll to date as the "deadliness" of the virus.  the deadliness is in the trajectory.  the number of infections is increasing at an accelerating rate.  not many people have died in the u.s. so far because it hasn't been here that long.  soon the number of infections will go up a lot and so will the number of deaths.  it's just math.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 2 replies
The first one is false, the flu is a lot worse
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y
Depends on how you look at death I guess
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
what do you mean, kid?  flu kills about 0.1 percent of those infected.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
Well, the kind of flu that can get really bad. People underestimate it, it kills millions every year. You have a 98 percent chance of surviving the coronavirus, and almost all the people who have died had other health issues, too.
[deleted]
1 up, 5y, 1 reply
but 98%, that's 20 times more deadly than the flu.  don't judge the infectivity profile by just the first few hundred cases.  look at the data from italy.  also, in the u.s., a lot of people have health issues.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
The coronavirus is another form of flu, it's not as bad, the flu A is the deadly one, a lot of people have died. Almost everyone who has got it. And if there's a 98% chance of surviving, that means 98% of victims have survived. And if a lot of people have health issues, and a lot of people survived, people with the health issues could have survived too.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
the coronavirus kills 20 times as many people as the flu (per 1000 people infected).  the flu kills a lot of people per year because it's been very active in the world's general population for a long time.  the coronavirus just got started a few months ago.  yes, most infected people survive corona, but many don't and every infected person can spread it while they're alive.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y, 1 reply
Well, the flu is still very active after all this time, who knows, maybe the coronavirus will subside sooner than the flu. And if it spreads, only few people won't make it anyway.
[deleted]
0 ups, 5y
sure.  if only one percent of the u.s. population gets it and only two percent of those people die, the death toll might not even reach 100,000.  well, good night.

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SO THERE'RE A LOT OF POSTS SAYING DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. THEY ARE MADE BY DOPES WHO DON'T KNOW SQUAT ABOUT VIRUSES OR EPIDEMICS. 1) this virus is deadlier than the flu and it has an epidemic growth trajectory. 2) being smart early on can greatly reduce the net impact. 3) your chance of dying from coronavirus is small if you're young and healthy, but you can pass it on to many others who are at much greater risk. SO DON'T BE A DOPE. RESPECT YOUR CDC AND HELP TO LIMIT THE IMPACT OF A KILLER.