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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/24/988744811/people-are-talking-about-a-double-mutant-variant-in-india-what-does-that-mean
... the situation in India right now is extreme. Oxygen tanks going for >$2000USD each. Cutting down trees for firewood for funeral pyres. Patients having to be left outside to die.
If these mutations make it more transmissible, more deadly, and the vaccines less effective, the rest of us may be in for serious trouble...
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I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the vaccines hold out. I don’t mind slightly less effectiveness. There’s bound to be individual variance anyway. Significant loss of immunity or increased symptoms if infected it’s just going to make everything far far worse. Right back where we started. Hopefully won’t come to that.
It still pisses me off that we could’ve contained this with two weeks to two months of inconvenience. Instead I’ll be two years to forever. This whole thing has been a terrible preview of what climate change is going to be like.
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Before pressing the panic button, those numbers are raw and you must remember the population f India. Taking that into account, India currently has 1300 cases per 100,000 population. The US has 10,000 per 100,000.
The death rate in India yesterday was .13/100,000 vs .28/100,000 in the US
Source: https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronav...9-tracker/
I'm not saying to ignore the situation, just not to let the media drive you to panic.
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Ombligo wrote:
Before pressing the panic button, those numbers are raw and you must remember the population f India. Taking that into account, India currently has 1300 cases per 100,000 population. The US has 10,000 per 100,000.
The death rate in India yesterday was .13/100,000 vs .28/100,000 in the US
Source: https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronav...9-tracker/
I'm not saying to ignore the situation, just not to let the media drive you to panic.
True, but this might be a vision of what is to come in LA, NYC and other very dense urban areas.
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C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=Ombligo]
Before pressing the panic button, those numbers are raw and you must remember the population f India. Taking that into account, India currently has 1300 cases per 100,000 population. The US has 10,000 per 100,000.
The death rate in India yesterday was .13/100,000 vs .28/100,000 in the US
Source: https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronav...9-tracker/
I'm not saying to ignore the situation, just not to let the media drive you to panic.
True, but this might be a vision of what is to come in LA, NYC and other very dense urban areas.
... and, they just broke their own record for the most deaths in a single day. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-new...15630.html
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LA already had an episode with full hospitals and overwhelmed morgues.
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All India official numbers are huge underestimates.
It’s almost as if they shouldn’t have held rallies where a million people would get together during a pandemic.
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sekker wrote:
All India official numbers are huge underestimates.
It’s almost as if they shouldn’t have held rallies where a million people would get together during a pandemic.
Quite.
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sekker wrote:
All India official numbers are huge underestimates.
This.
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That was what flattening the curve was about -- to stretch out the time over which infections occurred so that hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed immediately, and to provide some time to develop better treatments and (fingers crossed) a vaccine. It turns out that this approach worked pretty well in places that had a little advance warning, and not so well in places where people chose not to obey.
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