Coronavirus Body suit

I absolutely think that people are overreacting! To put it short, people die everyday of sicknesses like cancer, and here is the world going insane over a slightly worse flu!

One important thing to note though, unlike COVID-19, cancer is not contagious. Touching, kissing or even having sex with somebody who has cancer will not increase the risks you get cancer yourself. When cancer was new, and when nobody could survive it, the fear for cancer was also great. In Dutch they even said "Hij heeft K" (He as K) as the disease was a he-who-shall-not-be-named kind of fear... Oh and the Dutch word for cancer is "kanker", so I guess that explains the letter "K". However as more and more people can get cured from cancer now, the fact that cancer is not contagious, and because it's been around for years now, also makes that we are used to the threat cancer poses.

When AIDS was new the responses were similar. And it took a long while before the message sunk in that as long as you have no direct blood contact or sex with somebody who is HIV positive, you are basically risk free.... But I've heard a lot of bullshit stories back then, as well, I tell ya. For Ebola the panic was just as heavy, but as Ebola never fully manifested outside Africa the way Corona did outside Asia, we Europeans and Americans may not have noticed that so much, even though Ebola is countless times more dangerous than Corona is, and much more reason to panic.

But it always goes like this. Much people fear getting killed in a terrorist attack, while the chance of getting yourself killed in a car crash is still many times higher (even when you don't have a car yourself). The media isn't really helping here.

Cancer isn't contagious, that is true. I probably could have used a better example for that lol.

Quarantine will indeed be useless when it comes to cancer, however cancer is not entirely free of bullshit. Back in the early days of cancer people were in fear that it would be contagious, and did want to avoid those who suffered from it, even though that was completely senseless from the start for a disease that is not contagious. (Officially cancer is not a disease, but due to the effects it has on you, it's in popular speech still regarded as such). It had to be said multiple times when I was a boy, I remember that. And I even remember people avoiding people with AIDS, even though AIDS is not contagious as long as you don't have blood or sexual contact, but that didn't stop people from running a way from people with AIDS and even demanding authorities to have such people removed from their neighborhood, or at least, so I'm told. With Ebola we were just lucky it didn't spread as far as Corona did, because if that had happened THEN we would have had a good reason to kill the entire economy and lock up society completely... And that's why we hardly noticed the two outbreaks there. So you were not entirely wrong in your example. But the point is, that cancer is so old we're used to that, and most of the bullshit around it has been banished by now... Although not everything. I doubt windmills will cause cancer... But a medic will have to tell me whether I'm right or wrong on that one, but I seriously doubt it.

Why do I like that you are basically being a living encyclopedia rn lol

You're not the first to call me that... 🤣🤣

Ya know there's nothing wrong with it

Good! 😎

They've spread the virus faster than anyone, lol

Yes. Quarantined for two decades.

China:doing what is needed
Italy and europe: Doing what is needed
United states:Overreacting people are fighting each other for "toilet paper'

Ooooh I didn't think about the other countries. I agree

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Overreacting. Steps and precautions need to be made, yes, but the widespread panic is unnecessary.

Yep

Overreacting for sure, but solely staying on that doesn't do the situation justice. Compared to diseases such as Ebola, Corona is relatively innocent, however the point is that the virus is new. I am not saying this in the sense that we don't know what it can do, I'm saying that in the more Darwenian sense. Some older viruses are viruses the body knows and thus has resistance against. Conora is new, or at least the COVID-19 variant is new, and thus the body doesn't have resistance and it will take time (and much of infection cases) before we are more resistant, and that appears to be the most "evil" spot now. And that is why caution is required.

Fear for horrible diseases might be an old instinct. Of course in medieval times, during wars diseases were more feared than the enemy, for good reasons. The number of people meeting a horrible death due to diseases outranked the victims the enemy made by far. However stacking up tons of food is not gonna do much good, and the reasons behind the "toilet paper war" is beyond me. A lot of fake news also circles around and not for the better. Drinking much alcohol isn't gonna do much good, for starters. And the mouth covers also appear to do more harm than good. And when the economy is coming to a standstill, I wonder if the cure hasn't become more harmful than the disease, by now.

It is also confusing that every country appears to deal with the virus differently. Yet whatever you do, when you act on panic, and act like an apocalypse is on the way, you can only do more harm than good. I'd say, stay calm and trust the professionals and hope they know what they are doing (frankly they don't as this is new to them as well, but still they know more than most people do), and try to live as normally as usual as far as the measure of the authorities allow you to.

I'm actually more worried about the way people act right now, than about the virus itself, to be honest.

I'm so tired of hearing about it. You can't escape! We make it through the flu every year and that's deadlier, we survived MRSA and SARS and numerous other viruses over the years. People acting like it's the black plague or armageddon.

Well SARS is also a Corona virus, and thus related to COVID-19. I don't know about other countries, but I do know that all the people who died in the Netherlands were people who already had a weak health before they got infected. And Dutch Health organization now predicted that half of the Dutch will surely get Corona... Those kinds of message will surely cause more panic, I'm afraid. But news also reached me of people who actually didn't know they had Corona as all they got from it was a cold. A bit of coughing and a snotty nose, that sort of thing, and when I speak for myself... I have these symptoms every f**king year in spring and autumn. Something tells me that should I actually get infected, I may even never know, like most people who are generally in good health.

And yeah, I am also tried of hearing about it. I don't know about other countries, but in the Netherlands all the news I hear is about the Corona virus. The trial about the great MH17 tragedy (you know that the Russians are being suspected of shooting down a passenger plane killing everyone (most of them Dutch) on board) has only begun days ago and that didn't get as much attention as the Corona virus. Figures. I've decided to skip some news broadcasts now.... Most of the time I hear nothing new that I should know anyway. Dang!

Well said

It's all overreaction. Its transmission rate is lower than the flu, its morbidity rate is so far less than the flu, its recovery time less than the flu. The media really screwed us on this one. Inciting panic should carry consequences for those doing the inciting. Like yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater - the reporting on this has been beyond irresponsible.

Good point

I used to think that the panic was dumb

then my mom's closest confidante came down with flulike symptoms and a dry cough, and now I think the panic is... justified, but still an overreaction

I mean, people are shooting each other for toilet paper! FRICKIN TOILER PAPER!

Yep

Overreacting.

Agreed

It’s just a strong flu, everyone’s over reacting

Exactly!

This virus can be dangerous, to the elderly and those with compromised immune systems and lung issues. But the media doesn't want us to bear that in mind. I think if we follow commonsense hygiene practices the majority of us will get through this just fine.

Yeah everyone is going crazy about having to wash their hands while I'm over here like WHAT YOU WEREN'T DOING IT BEFORE?

Great observation!

That's one way to put it

My sentiments exactly. My job has signs in the doors now with step-by-step instructions on how to wash your hands. It's not even like we have kids in our building.

That's crazy

My classmates are constantly being sent out of the room to go wash their hands because they were being gross, and they come back with completely dry hands (and the paper towels in the bathroom are not that great at drying). It's so disgusting. Now the school is closed.

I really hate how much media is hyping it up, despite actual doctors' efforts to quell the chaos somewhat. My boss is a bit of a hypochondriac, so now she's nervous. The whole world seems to be shutting down unnecessarily. I just hate the fear surrounding it. I caught the last bit of the evening news yesterday, and it was a short message "encouraging" people to stay away from each other. Never in my life have I heard ANYTHING like that on TV, so I'm really skeptical about just how bad this disease actually is.

Had a friend tell me before I walked out the door yesterday, stay 6 feet away from people, 12 feet away if they're caughing. Well thanks, good thing I'm taking my tape measure with me, lol

Lol, I know, right?!

Btw, this is not to say that I'm dismissing the fact that this a bad virus strain, nor am I dismissing actual victims of it. I'm just going to treat the situation as another virus during the flu season.

overreacting bc only old people really die from it the flu has a higher kill rate

Exactly

I don't even know anymore...

It's crazy, that's for sure

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