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Never_falter2
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Well... I am not 100 percent convinced. I am not a medical expert. In my country people are being treated with hydroxycholoroquine early as far as I know and the mortality is at five percent of all known cases. Actually the discussion goes in the direction if treatment with hydroxycholoroquine is really useful but since it is cheap and relatively low risk it is continued.
The mortality of known cases has a strong connection with age where I am from. In the under 50 year olds it is only 0.3 percent - or 3 in thousand. So we are under 50 and most likely we will not die from it.
Yet I think we still should have a say if we want to expose ourselves to the coronavirus, because 0,3 is not nothing. If the state forces my son into school, forces him to sit next to another child he didn’t choose and if the other childs family decides to travel to a corona hotspot it’s basically the state and that other childs family who choose if our child and our family are exposed to the risk.
If 1000 people under 50 are exposed to the risk that way 3 of them will end up dead. I hope that this will not happen to us, chances are it won’t, because 997 won’t die. Chances are also that it is more likely that nobody in his class will have corona.
But I was answering @Ronin here who talked about figuring out reducing the risk. There is not much we can do to reduce our individual risk. It’s basically just coincidence.
My Vets risk may be higher than usual. We don’t know for sure. His employer send him into remote work (we say “home office“ but we are not sure if this is a correct English word) because he has hypertonic and he send everybody who has that condition (or a number of others) into remote work and they currently aren’t allowed to enter the office building. That can be easily done in that kind of job and the employer might be a bit extra careful.
Yet I think for my vet this is a bit like “OMG! The world out there is dangerous for people like me“. Some of his coworkers have returned to the office buildings (the ones who have no health problems were given the choice if they wanted to return or continue to work remote).
People in the office are required to wear a facemask and keep a distance, they also have to switch to remote working when they show symptoms of cough, fever and so on. Yet he still is not allowed to be in there even under that safe conditions. I think it makes him feel a bit like at deaths door.
The corona-mortality for all people with hypertonia is 10 percent as far as I know but that includes the elderly. We assume that the mortality of a young person must be much lower.
He is currently not in his best health, has a lot of stomach trouble, trouble eating. I would have made him see a doctor if he wasn’t to afraid to catch corona there.
Hope he has all the vitamins and so on he needs.
My vet has made bad experiences with illness. A friend of his had severe illness and my vet has made a bad experience in hospital.
He has always been afraid of germs... even before corona he was afraid of germs.
So this is hard for him.
The mortality of known cases has a strong connection with age where I am from. In the under 50 year olds it is only 0.3 percent - or 3 in thousand. So we are under 50 and most likely we will not die from it.
Yet I think we still should have a say if we want to expose ourselves to the coronavirus, because 0,3 is not nothing. If the state forces my son into school, forces him to sit next to another child he didn’t choose and if the other childs family decides to travel to a corona hotspot it’s basically the state and that other childs family who choose if our child and our family are exposed to the risk.
If 1000 people under 50 are exposed to the risk that way 3 of them will end up dead. I hope that this will not happen to us, chances are it won’t, because 997 won’t die. Chances are also that it is more likely that nobody in his class will have corona.
But I was answering @Ronin here who talked about figuring out reducing the risk. There is not much we can do to reduce our individual risk. It’s basically just coincidence.
My Vets risk may be higher than usual. We don’t know for sure. His employer send him into remote work (we say “home office“ but we are not sure if this is a correct English word) because he has hypertonic and he send everybody who has that condition (or a number of others) into remote work and they currently aren’t allowed to enter the office building. That can be easily done in that kind of job and the employer might be a bit extra careful.
Yet I think for my vet this is a bit like “OMG! The world out there is dangerous for people like me“. Some of his coworkers have returned to the office buildings (the ones who have no health problems were given the choice if they wanted to return or continue to work remote).
People in the office are required to wear a facemask and keep a distance, they also have to switch to remote working when they show symptoms of cough, fever and so on. Yet he still is not allowed to be in there even under that safe conditions. I think it makes him feel a bit like at deaths door.
The corona-mortality for all people with hypertonia is 10 percent as far as I know but that includes the elderly. We assume that the mortality of a young person must be much lower.
He is currently not in his best health, has a lot of stomach trouble, trouble eating. I would have made him see a doctor if he wasn’t to afraid to catch corona there.
Hope he has all the vitamins and so on he needs.
My vet has made bad experiences with illness. A friend of his had severe illness and my vet has made a bad experience in hospital.
He has always been afraid of germs... even before corona he was afraid of germs.
So this is hard for him.