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redmustang91 64M
7764 posts
5/18/2020 4:48 am

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Do the math


The virus is irritating. But we have learned a lot in a short period of time.

For 80% of us the virus is mild or no big deal. 50% have no symptoms but still spread it.

Still for 5% the virus may kill you. Usually it takes 30 or more days to kill someone, but some people die more quickly.

The 1918 to 1919 flu killed between 50 and 100 million worldwide. This one could too.

There are hopeful developments. Drugs are being tested and steps are being taken to improve the odds to beat the virus in hospitals.

Still the fastest vaccine developed to fight a virus is four years, and then getting people vaccinated takes a year or more. HIV-AIDS killed in the eighties, and there is no vaccine yet.

More than 90% of those who die from the virus are males, over age 60, and have major medical issues like high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.

The research has shown your own body can kill you from a storm of reaction from the virus, so they use Drugs to tame down the inflamed reaction.

Delay getting sick and you have a better chance of surviving this epidemic.

Stay home if you can, stay healthy and survive... Good luck to all. We will need it.

redmustang91 64M
9760 posts
5/18/2020 4:50 am

The smart approach is to be cautious. There are old pilots and bold pilots but not too many old bold pilots.


bulehyatt 65M
1717 posts
5/18/2020 9:42 pm

It isn't possible to say - yet - what the longer-term effects of Covid-infection are. This virus attacks the body in so many different ways by affecting the oxygen-circulation of the body.

That means that shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing is only one possible symptom. More troubling is when Covid-cases have hypoxia - which is deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching tissues and organs.

When hypoxia continues for some time, serious organ-damage results - things like kidney-failure and long-term compromise of lung-function.

Recent news reports suggest that some Covid-cases who report mild symptoms actually test for severe levels of hypoxia. Hard to predict whether there will be long-term health-consequences from this.

Let's all be clear that Covid-19 is incredibly contagious; that it circulates through the air of enclosed spaces like restaurants, churches and offices; and that asymptomatic carriers . . . people who don't even know they have Covid . . . could be anywhere: next desk, next table in the restaurant; in the church-pew or theatre-seat just behind you.

For the time being, please, please wear a mask when you are out in public. This is not for YOUR protection (unless you wear an N-95 mask); rather, it is to protect other people from YOU, in case you are an asymptomatic carrier.


redmustang91 64M
9760 posts
5/21/2020 5:05 am

I read an article in the NYT about oximeter used to read blood oxygen levels. Cost about $35 to $55 dollars. Worth it to see if your lungs are functioning normally. A reading above 93% is normal. If you are below that going to a hospital is indicated. Better to get high flow oxygen then intubated and on the ventilator. About 90% of those on ventilators die...

Another sad fact is many are killed by the inflammation and over reaction of the body to the infection. So the doctors need to calm the storm before the organs are damaged.

I am staying home mostly and hoping to get infected later when there are more and better drugs to cure the problems that Covid 19 causes.


redmustang91 64M
9760 posts
5/21/2020 5:09 am

A vaccine is at least a year away from now.... The fastest one in history took four years to be made. HIV that causes AIDS killed in the eighties, still no vaccine forty years later. Recent trials showed they can create antibodies, but many attempts fail to become useful vaccines.


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