Seems Middle Earth has caught Corona virus too…
I've been refreshing an interactive site regarding Florida every 12 hours. I occasionally read the recently penned articles. In response to some of these articles, you have idiots crying out for their constitutional right to assembly, and how the typical Flu has a higher death toll. Florida is a den of morons and I regret ever moving down here.
This virus is already getting on my nerves. As my house burned down, one reallative died of a heart attack, one more is dying, and I'm broke and unemployed. At least the state put my family in a hotel. I feel like shit right now.
WrestleMania is happening today! IN FLORIDA!!It is with much embarrassment and trepidation I give you professional wrestling without crowds:
That is some really bad news. I do hope you and your family get through this.This virus is already getting on my nerves. As my house burned down, one reallative died of a heart attack, one more is dying, and I'm broke and unemployed. At least the state put my family in a hotel. I feel like shit right now.
This virus is already getting on my nerves. As my house burned down, one reallative died of a heart attack, one more is dying, and I'm broke and unemployed. At least the state put my family in a hotel. I feel like shit right now.
Just doing some comparisons for death rates out of curiosity. […]
Deaths in US from COVID so far: 8,454 […]
Leading causes of death US per year: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
I'm always up for numerical comparisons, but you are certainly aware that you are comparing annual effects of several causes that are roughly constant in time to the effects of something that has been growing exponentially for about two months?
Thus, it's not the number of deaths so far that people are most concerned about - it's the number of deaths yet to come. Up to February 28th, a little more than a month ago, the U.S. had not recorded a single death from COVID-19. Now, it's over 1000 per day. If that were to stay constant (which it won't), this daily rate would already place it in the 3rd spot of your list of leading causes of death. That is indeed putting things into a perspective that I hadn't really been aware of before either. From nil to third most leading daily cause of death in a few weeks - that is chilling.
@Couchpotato; Are you being serious? I thought you were joking when I first read it, that is too much bad luck to happen to somebody right now.