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Message: [QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 3337367, member: 7237"] I would still caution to take any stats you see with several grains of salt. Most of the stats are from somewhat limited data gathering. Data out of China is not reliable. The real situation is much worse with fatality. Their healthcare system basically collapsed and they required everyone to stay home, shut down mass transit, which effectively took away the ability of those who are sick to even travel to the hospitals - they can't walk there or they call a phone number to request a ride and there is 1 vehicle allocated for rides per 2-3 city blocks with huge high rise buildings. This resulted in many who died in homes or on sidewalks or in hospital waiting rooms while they waited for registration when the hospitals were full. They got the relief in the hospital finally when when people realized they cannot walk there and even if they did they could not get in to get treated. They had ambulances running around getting the dead people into body bags. None of those are in the stats, they were never diagnosed nor treated. In the USA the situation is getting serious. Again you are told to stay home. if you have mild symptoms stay home get some fluids and rest and get over it because they can't help you at the hospitals or clinics. Only the seriously sick should go to the hospitals. They are just now gearing up the testing. So the USA testing data is completely exclusive of those with mild symptoms, and when wide spread testing is available and executed then we will see a jump in numbers, not because there is a sudden jump in those infected, just realization of who's already infected but didn't know. My thinking is they will continue to not push large scale testing, because PPE is limited and knowing the real numbers may cause panic. The more accurate and transparent data is from South Korea and Italy. There it shows the mortality rate is higher, and the young and the restless are not immune to the infection, and some do get serious sick and even death. The earlier messaging about the young being safe was IMHO not done properly, and may have partially contributed to college kids ignoring the warnings and headed to the south for spring breaks, flooding the beaches, parks, bars and frat houses. Also, and this is not wildly reported in the USA for some reason. If you do get sick, and then recover, you are not whole again. There is damage done, permanently, to your lungs. Many fully recovered have asthma conditions, shot of breath. Everyone stay safe. [/QUOTE]

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