"This coronavirus is unlike anything in our lifetime."

[silverweb]

This coronavirus is unlike anything in our lifetime — and comparing it to the flu is dangerously inaccurate.

An excellent article, which covers all the reasons the SARS-CoV-2 virus resulting in COVID-19 illness is much, much worse than the flu.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/this-coronavirus-is-unlike-anything-in-our-lifetime-and-comparing-it-to-the-flu-is-dangerously-inaccurate/

[duforsure]

1. Has blood transfusions helped anyone?

I wonder if the blood can be removed , treated, disinfected then returned , if that could help , or slow its deadly effects more? Ozone , or others additives?

[Squinch]

2. But interestingly, if you think about it EVERY generation before us went through this. This was

part of life for our grandparents with Polio, tuberculosis, yellow fever, measles, small pox, etc etc etc.

I think I always knew it, but of course I never got how scary it must have been for them.

[k2qb3]

4. Imagine what it was like before germ theory...

People just got sick, or died, and nobody knew why, or worse they had it very wrong.

The world was a very different place before the scientific revolution, it's a big part of the problem with conservatism holding onto old ideas.

[Squinch]

5. It makes the idea of "God's wrath" very understandable. I wonder what ideas we have now that

will be inconceivable in a couple of hundred years.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. How about "Electoral College" and "Caucus"?

Barely conceivable now, hopefully forgotten in a hundred years. Thought of as "quaint", like our current view of "smoke-filled rooms" as decision-making venues.



The election of Trump is still inconceivable. "Dog's wrath" works for me.

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[Sherman A1]

3. Thanks for posting

[silverweb]

7. My pleasure.