anyone changing plans ?

[JueandSoe]

SO far our flight is still booked so we will be there March 26th. Cannot live in fear!!!!

[SLP]

I would never cancel my flight because of this. Unfortunately, I fell on ice and am in hospital so I am cancelling because of that. ����

[DRPhil]

The chance of getting coronavirus are still less than being hit by lightning

[Todd]

I would never cancel my flight because of this. Unfortunately, I fell on ice and am in hospital so I am cancelling because of that. ����

Sorry to hear that Sue. Will be missing your pics. Get well soon!

[Accompong]

The chance of getting coronavirus are still less than being hit by lightning

Part of the problem with this calculation is that it would depend on whether you lived in a state where lightning was infrequent or in the lightning capital of Florida. Also, now when the virus has just begun spreading (like now) or projected density weeks and months from now. And, finally, if you shelter inside or run around with a tinfoil hat during a thunderstorm.

[Homebrewer]

I think person-to-person transmission is a much bigger problem than a mosquito vector - especially when asymptomatic people can spread it. Hopefully this thing stalls with sunlight and warm ambient temperatures.

Warm temps do not kill this virus, it can survive 3 days in 98 degree temps.

Warm weather does help because as humans we are not all huddled together indoors but spend much more time outside and except for baseball etc. we are usually further apart preventing transmission.

[Kold Ass Mofo]

Part of the problem with this calculation is that it would depend on whether you lived in a state where lightning was infrequent or in the lightning capital of Florida. Also, now when the virus has just begun spreading (like now) or projected density weeks and months from now. And, finally, if you shelter inside or run around with a tinfoil hat during a thunderstorm.

The other part of the problem with a lightning comparison is that the numbers being reported in the media are only for confirmed infections, a small portion of the total number infected.

Where I live you can't get a test unless they can connect the dots to an infected person, or you travelled internationally. They tell you NOT TO GO TO THE DR OFFICE or ER, stay put and self quaranteen. Call 911 when you're close to dead. A local woman was in Los Angeles, travelled by plane, is sick as %$# after returning, infected her husband. They won't test her because she did not leave the country. Just turn your bedroom into a diy ICU. Easy as that.

Flu kills 0.1% of infections, probably less since many people don't report.
Cov19 kills 3 to 5% depending on what numbers you use. 30 to 50 times more deadly and it is highly contagious by people with no symptoms, unlike the flu where you are sick as ^%$# when you are infectious.

Try reading Scientific America and not CNN or FOX for health news.

[gregandkelly63]

Flu kills 0.1% of infections, probably less since many people don't report.
Cov19 kills 3 to 5% depending on what numbers you use. 30 to 50 times more deadly and it is highly contagious by people with no symptoms, unlike the flu where you are sick as ^%$# when you are infectious.

Try reading Scientific America and not CNN or FOX for health news.

Not sure where you are getting your numbers, but they are way off. Here are the number for flu deaths from the CDC


0-4 years 1.3%
5-17 years 0.4%
18 - 49 years 1.8%
50 - 64 years 9%
65+ years 48.7%

Maybe Scientific America should fact check with the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

[JaJodi]

That is the percentage of all deaths for the age group, not the mortality percentage.

Out of all the people who die from the flu, 48.7% of them are 65 and older. You don't have a 48.7% chance of dying from the flu if you are over 65.

Apple's to oranges

[JDd]

what....?