Coronavirus – The Five Things We Need To Know! by Bruce Wilde

A survey of the knowns and unknowns of the coronavirus from Bruce Wilds at brucewilds.blogspot.com:

What we really need to know about the coronavirus is how it will affect us as individuals. The picture presented by governments is sketchy at best. Driven by agendas such as preventing panic and spinning the ramifications to lessen their toll on financial markets has made what they say unreliable. The big issue facing all of us is what to expect and how to prepare. Below is a list of five crucial issues before us.

• • Just how deadly is this thing and what are the odds you will get it?

• • Are we looking at citywide lock-downs such as those that have been instituted in other countries?

• • Is it expected to return time and time again and how long before we know? 

• • If I or someone I know appears to start showing symptoms, what is the best course forward?

• What are the long and short term economic consequences of this outbreak?

It has become obvious this virus is very easy to contract, one well-respected expert predicted early on that 60 to 80 percent of people would get it before it ran its course. A week ago The Atlantic reported that according to Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch, the coronavirus “will ultimately not be containable.” His number is only slightly less comfortable, “Lipsitch predicts that, within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19,” The professor went on to say this doesn’t mean all of those victims will become seriously ill and that “many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic.”

This reinforces what is being reported out of Daegu, South Korea where around 1900 Shincheonji Church members have been tested for coronavirus. Of those tested 1,331 had symptoms and approximately 550 did not. Among those 1331 with symptoms, 87.5% were confirmed with the virus but just as troubling is that of those without symptoms, 70% were confirmed with coronavirus. In short, 420 tested positive but asymptomatic and 1,131 tested positive and symptomatic. This means 1,551 infected out of roughly 1900 plays out to an infection rate of 81%.

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