I can see this one gettin' a little fuzzy, or is that cozy. I hate pickin' sides...
Fence please..:-)
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My family was struck by Covid. A 19 year old young man got his mother and 3 other family member sick... The Uncle passed he was 89. The rest recovered. 5 total.. Very contagious.. SARS/Covid is different in that vaccines, are just now coming out. SARS I’m not sure, but Covid is a variant. The flu we have some sort of idea what to immunate for, THOUGH it’s not always the right choice. Different types of flu require different vaccines. Same with the SARS / Covid...
PC I could give a hoot! The truth without malice or public embarrassment is more important than any of of the political finagling. Manners don’t cost, they pay...Plane and simple.. Manners and TRYING to be a gentleman will always be PC... Tough though...:-)
I got derailed, broke a little toe.. WOW.. Amazing how much you use that little guy.. LOL
YES playing with my new RtR, yup...
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This is what I’ve seen. A world scared by a pandemic called Covid 19 when the fact is we have on going PANDEMICS every year.
We all saw a reduction in deaths by "transmitted disease". A total reduction worldwide.
IF there would NOT have been, mask, social distancing, and social awareness, with RAISED attention towards POOR habits regarding infectious disease, the death toll would be through the roof all over the world. NOT JUST because of Covid, but the flu, SARS, Ebola.
The ones I just mentioned, were and still are DEADLY, but the one that gets left out and is a worldwide pandemic, every year..
MALARIA
Influenza X A LOT of different types
SARS, Covid is SARS
Ebola.
When we react to ANY single disease and treat it as "Very Contagious"
ALL diseases and their infection rate DROP... SO THE whole death rate number drops also.
What we see world wide is a good, result from some serious action taken by the WHOLE world... IF not the rest of the nasty diseases would run amuck... It smartened up the world....I think. :-)
For those that want to treat a deadly disease, any other way than a, "DEADLY DISEASE", Don’t.
Unfortunately, you might get to join that rather small number of fatalities, but fatalities none the less.
The most important part to remember. YOU are responsible for your good health. NO ONE ELSE is.... That is PC in my book..
I’m ABLE to RESPOND, Responsable....
Good health to all, Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas..
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Influenza? 12-61K annually, not 300K+ in 10 months.
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You left out the number one killer in the world Malaria.
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# 2 World wide! Influenza
No my information stands, uncorrected, by you.. Over 500,000 last year alone more like 700,000. If you have suffered the effects of Malaria, or the LONG lasting effects of it, you wouldn't say 5 in the US. 100,000 of thousands have their whole lives riddled with episode of reoccurrence, they live in the US...or it's Island states.
Influenza? EVERY year 50-100,000. THAT many die of it..and that big of a variance, because of preventative treatment, and a HIGH contagion factor... Me wearing a mask helps me NOT you...Though the secondary effect is ME spreading less crap from me, to the guy right behind me. Social distancing, more so than anything...
No it was a good analogy.. You see Covid struck my wife family, I know how bad it is. We were told not to attend the funeral. I knew the guy for 47 years...A close family member, though 89, still quite witty..
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Americans?
I said World Wide.
The effect is still the same if 5,000 people migrate to the US per year that have had Malaria. I think your missing my point. I don't have any of the diseases in my home. It doesn't mean the world doesn't have an effect on ME...or the people around us, kinda one sided, ay?
Again the statement stands, the whole world locked down, that lowered the death rate on EVERYTHING contagious, plane and simple. BUT really curbed the potential for something REAL BAD..
When the world FORGETS what CAN happen, you get the Flu like the turn of the century It swept like wildfire. Some were affected much worse than others... 1/2 of a town sick at one time, every town locked down... World Wide.. Met with blockades, to enter towns...
Was the "Cry" loud enough? Gosh I hope so.. Let's not get sloppy and forget, good common sense..
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I worked with a German company for 13 years, they paid a LOT of taxes in that country, a WHOLE lot. Super high dental cost. Their labor force retires well, as they should...A Union Country for the most part...
I went in the hospital at 0900 hours on Wed, and was released on a Friday, before noon, including my ride to the hospital.
EMT, at home treatment, and transport Wed morning.
Admitted from Emergency.
Stint installed Thursday.
51 hours total time at the hospital.
Released before noon on Friday.
83,600.00 so far. All but 1600.00 is paid for, and they didn't ask for payment, The EMT, The hospital, The 4 or 5 doctors.
I was treated like GOLD, by the hospital and a LOT of folks at Agon.
You guys would never guess who either.
Great word of encouragement, when I had to go BACK for a second and third time... I was scared to death.. That first time was a nightmare, and the 15 additional HA I had before the second procedure, I was wore out...
I'm sure better now, but it was not cheap... Great folks though, I just can't say enough... The whole Covid thing was in FULL swing... For all I know everyone was sticking their tongues out at me.. LOL
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The point about malaria is, it has been a world wide issue for MANY years. It is somewhat controlled. Yet every year thousands upon thousand are affected. It is an ongoing pandemic... There are some lasting long term affects.
It is on the RISE again because of bans on DDT for one, and a few others.
Influenza on the other hand does not have as many long term effects. BUT the same principal apply as far as prevention. Social distance, mask. 50-100K per year, die. 50-150 million infected. It's pretty darn contagious.
SARS, same as Covid, VERY contagious, Ebola the same way VERY contagious... Higher death toll per infection, capital, and many more long lasting effect on some, heart, kidney, lung issues..
The problem was a treatment, we had treatment for most of the other illnesses. We now have a vaccine, things are a lot better. But I haven't been vaccinated, yet either..
As for the pandemic is "Only if American have it", you haven't traveled much have you?.. You know out of the US. When you have to work outside the US, I mean WORK!! You understand how clean it is in the US, and how good working conditions are.. We have a lot going for us in the US, a whole lot..
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Thanks, your correct, I wasn't paying attention. Africa does have it bad. The issue is migration, from there to here. The cost is not high to treat people, but there is a cost. The side affect of some of the things you catch anywhere can have LONG lasting effects.
Montezuma's Revenge, can have LONG lasting side effects.
Valley fever, bad stuff! Mechanics, field workers, and EQ operators..
Covid, took the wife's uncle, but kidney failure is what got him..
Flu is no fun, been 10 years for me.. TG
I wish EVERYONE good health, good hearing (:-)), a happy Christmas, and some goodies under your Christmas tree...
Gettin' ready to play with a new toy.. RtR... PC or not. :-)
PC? Time to feed the chickens... ponder that one, a bit...
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They’re now talking about Covid mutating. If it actually existed in the first place that is.
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Manuel Encarnacion WAS his name, it exist all right!!!
89 years old, loved model RR, 44 years at Dupont, 16 more at Ace hardware, loved by a lot of folks. They all lived to be 95 + years old.
I say he was robbed, after 56 years of hard work and service..
It’s gonna get better, people can act silly all they want and say STUFF isn’t happening,
We NOW get to see how the gene pool, "self corrects"..
Darwinism at its finest.. I say.
They may be able to delete the post, but it doesn’t remove the fact, Covid is BAD, Amego... real Bad...
So is my next door neighbors breath, it’s bad, what’s a neighbor to do? Hand him a gallon or two of SCOPE for Christmas... Merry Christmas.. Wo Wo Wo, don’t Ho Ho Ho, the mistletoe will wilt and die, along with the Christmas Amaryllis, and Poinsettia. Got no idea what could cause that smell, chompin’ on turds for snacks and a pinch of black pepper maybe..
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140 million babies are born every year.
65 million die every year.
7.6 billion current population.
10 billion projected by 2056.
There is a reason for only 100,000 or so ventilators in the US.
Some countries have 50? Don’t get sick in Haiti, Dominican, Sierra Leone, Syria. I’d doubt you could find a ventilator..
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