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Originally Posted by loochy
I'd like to see some communications from people that actually have the sickness right now. I'd like to see how many feel like death, how many are slightly sick, etc. I keep reading "oh, most people only experience minor symptoms." Is minor like a common cold or is minor like the full blown flu without hospitalization?
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From everything I've read, it varies from case to case.
The biggest issue with COVID-19 isn't that "X amount of people die from the flu every year, so what's the big deal?", it's that when this sucker hits a patient hard, that patient needs a ventilator and such to have a chance to survive, and there simply isn't enough equipment or beds available for tens of thousands of people, let alone, millions.
There are so many "Ifs" out there, too. You'll most likely be okay if you get the virus IF you're healthy and IF your immune system isn't compromised.
But IF you're elderly or IF you have pre-existing conditions like asthma or COPD or any other lung disease or IF you have Diabetes Type I or IF you have high blood pressure that isn't controlled by meds or IF you have cancer or IF you're doing chemotherapy or radiation or IF you're not healthy, your risk of getting the disease is much greater, as is the risk of dying.
That's a lot of IFS and most of them are pretty shitty.