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Originally Posted by stevieray
I disagree.
And people pretending this is somehow worse than other calamities are fear mongers.
I get that it's scary, and I think the breathing factor plays big part of that.
But more people are dealing with and dying of worse things every single day, I'm not saying that to downplay the severity, rather to help keep things in perspective.
I watched a good friend who was a complete bad ass wither away in a few weeks. Couldn't keep food down, even struggled with drinking water. Hadn't eaten in two weeks when I saw him. Constant pain from sternum to liver. ZERO energy level .Said a hiccup felt like a firecracker going off. A cough? A grenade. He died 10 days later, two days before my birthday.
It all sucks big time, but life HAS to move forward.
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I get what you're saying, but in terms of the fear that's out there, all of the other ways someone might die on any given day hasn't shut down the world before and in general all of those other things are well known.
Everyone knows they could die in a car accident every time they get into a car, but most people are either too young/dumb to care or old enough and have survived long enough to understand the risk is relatively low.
This shit has shut down everything in a matter of 4 weeks and already I would venture to guess a whole helluva lot of people out there know someone who's at least presented with all of the right symptoms and can say it wasn't just the normal flu..... the actual risk may still be relatively low, but it's also a very new and unknown risk.
That said, I do agree in that I don't think there will be lasting fear, for that very reason.... time will go on and if the risk is actually relatively low, people will see that, and it'll also become a known risk like other things.
Condolences.