Re: Why Italy so hard
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:44 am
Also if you noticed the video from Sky News about a tour through an Italian hospital, all the people with the bubble helmets are male.
Possible demographic link there?
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Also if you noticed the video from Sky News about a tour through an Italian hospital, all the people with the bubble helmets are male.
That reminds me a lot of Cathy Young's excellent reporting (she ended up getting some things wrong but she did a lot of digging) on HIV/AIDS in the 1990s (btw, remember when AIDS was going to "inevitably" explode into the heterosexual population and kill us all?). In much of sub-Saharan Africa anyone who died in hospital of practically anything had "le slim" or "le SIDA" (AIDS) recorded on the death certificate.What that means is that if you die in an Italian hospital of the measles (that you were never inoculated for), but the autopsy shows the Wuhan Virus, you get entered as a COVID-19 death.
You can be asymptomatic for COVID-19, and die of a heart attack because you ate nothing but baked brie for 58 years, and it's a coronavirus death.
Didn't get a pneumonia shot, and (bloody surprise!) die of pneumonia, but they find coronavirus? It's a coronavirus death.
Chinese people smoke like chimneys and they have a lot of smoke. Both of those things are bad for lung function and smoking it bad for your immune system.Langenator wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:49 pm No word on how Spain compares to Italy in terms of risk factors mentioned here - age distribution in the population, prevalence of smoking (my recollection from my time in Afghanistan was that pretty much all the Euros smoked like chimneys, except the Brits), and anti-vax idiocy level.
Cruise passengers tend to skew older than the general population, as well.Jered wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:39 amChinese people smoke like chimneys and they have a lot of smoke. Both of those things are bad for lung function and smoking it bad for your immune system.Langenator wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:49 pm No word on how Spain compares to Italy in terms of risk factors mentioned here - age distribution in the population, prevalence of smoking (my recollection from my time in Afghanistan was that pretty much all the Euros smoked like chimneys, except the Brits), and anti-vax idiocy level.
Also, I saw a post on Powerline where someone mentioned the Diamond Princess (the quarantined plague ship) 20% of people on that boat got infected and cruise ships are basically petri dishes for people.
Currently, the mortality rate in the US is 1.5%, according to worldometers.info. numbers (85k infected, 1300 deaths)