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ITGUYINSD said:

If you take the time to look at the 2018-2019 flu season statistics, you'd see that in CA, we had 30-50 flu-related deaths PER WEEK!  Why didn't we "lockdown" then?  Is the media blowing this out of proportion?  I saw during the 2018-2019 flu season that in the US, 80,000 people died!  Did we shutter businesses, stop travel, and basically turn everyones life upside down?  Did financial markets collapse?  

It's amazing that in past years, all the flu-related deaths we had, and nothing changed in our day-to-day lives except taking precautions and washing your hands.

Yet now, the numbers are much lower with COVID-19 and look what we're doing.  I'm trying to make sense of it.

I'll bite.

 There are several reasons this virus is far worse than the flu and is bringing entire countries to a complete collapse -

 1. The hospitalization rate for COVID19 is 10-15% with roughly 5% requiring ICU; seasonal flu is 0.05%. Furthermore, the death rate for the flu is 0.1%, COVID19 is over thirty times worse at 3.4%. And in some places, like Italy, DOUBLE that.

 2. Seasonal flu related deaths are usually not from the flu itself but other secondary causes such as secondary bacterial pneumonia. COVID19 on the other hand is also called SARS-CoV-2 which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome where the lungs start filling up with fluid from inflammation - it is far more dangerous and far more difficult to treat.

 3. We have a vaccine for the flu which reduces the severity of its spread and impact every year. We have no vaccine for COVID19.

 4. The basic reproduction number of the flu (average number of people who get it from one sick person) is 1.3. This virus is 3 with some fluctuation meaning that it is much more contagious.

 5. Seasonal flu is an epidemic, coronavirus is a pandemic - it rapidly spreads around the whole world, causing a devastating impact.

 6. We have studied flu for decades so we know much more about it and how to treat and mitigate it compared to COVID19.

 You're welcome.

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spice-boy said:

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Hopefully they confirm that the people actually do have corona virus, otherwise I am sure that there will be sneaky people taking advantage of the situation. Anybody who believes that they have it should be tested for it, and the truth shall be known.

Why don't you volunteer to visit their homes to make sure they are sick. What no? Then keep your nonsense to yourself. 

Why would I volunteer? I'm not a health worker and I don't do charity work.

I don't believe that verifying somebody's claims can be called nonsense. There are always scrupulous people who will take advantage of any situation and with all of the hysteria going around and an easily manipulated and gullible population, I believe that my concerns are valid.

With the havoc that this virus is causing on people's health, lives, livelihoods, cancellation of major events, and the meltdown of the economy on a worldwide scale, this is your chief concern? That someone is gonna fake corona infection so they can skip work?

Incredible. And at the same time, utterly unsurprising, coming from you. 

I would say thats a massive recovery, probably the biggest ever recovery in a single day, keeping in mind the stock price before last week was an all time high. 

SpamSandwich said:

As of this moment the stock is in a free fall. Over 5% drop today. Who would expect anything less than sheer blind panic from short term traders and increasingly negative momentum out there?

Itll probably take the stock a year to recover at this point.

Unless you're planning to imminently sell your AAPL, this dip will be irrelevant in the big picture. If anything, an opportunity to add to your position. The market acts in extreme, hyperbolic ways during these situations 

Glad to see this trashbin patent troll getting rewarded. 

What the fuck did they ever do to deserve $400M? How has this company affected the lives of a SINGLE human being? They've done jackshit. 

What a fucking joke of a legal system.