People who say "Well, I don't know anyone who died of the coronavirus" are technically correct. Your friend who had it and didn't die infected someone else, who infected his mom, who died. So yes, you don't know the person who died. That's how epidemics work.
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That is how epidemics work, EARLY. We will eventually reach an inflection point where the pandemic is personal. Network structure dictates this. But, at that point, it will be too late to do anything about it.
That's such an important point: although it doesn't feel early in the epidemic to us, who are now thoroughly bored after months of quarantine, it is still early from the epidemic's point of view.
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Yes. I keep upping my estimates of deaths in the USA. Give our bad behavior and governmental incompetence, I now think more than 500,00 will die from COVID19 in USA before it is all over.
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What does 'over' mean? Won't it just be another disease in our lives? A disease nearly everyone will have, perhaps multiple times like influenza over a lifetime? Can be fatal, particularly among the elderly, but not for most healthy people?
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This is absolutely true and I’ve seen this here in Chennai (India).A lot of people were taking it too casually,then news came that someone in our area was infected. As it progressed,now we have people infected in our apartment complex - and finally people are taking it seriously.
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At some point, you or an immediate family member will have the virus, asymptomatic or otherwise. It’s definitely a numbers game. Folks don’t realize this yet.
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