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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4515753, member: 73489&quot;]<b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i>Here&#039;s the thing that scares me, and I&#039;m NOT an alarmist.&nbsp; </i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Flu may kill, but it&#039;s usually in conjunction with other diseases, advanced old age, etc.&nbsp; You get the Flu -- Influenza is the full name -- and the symptons are pretty much the same whether you are 8 years old (miss a week of school)....16 years old (miss 2 days of school).....mid-20&#039;s or mid-30&#039;s (MAYBE miss 1 day of work, but OJ and Vitamin C and rest gets you back to normal in 2 days)....or in your 60&#039;s or 70&#039;s or even your 80&#039;s (as long as in decent health, back to normal in a few days).</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">This C-19 virus seems to have an unpredictable tail on the statistical Bell Curve diagram of illness effects.</span></b>&nbsp; The speed with with it can kill you if you have diabetes or some other seemingly-at-random disease is alarming.&nbsp; Even if you DON&#039;T have an at-risk factor or disease...just the way it can attack any individual is scary.&nbsp; Two identical twins with the same physical and health makeup...one can get the virus and never show symptoms, the other gets extremely sick.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost like a Viral Russian Roulette as to what happens to you (with the exception that the very young do seem to be 99.999% immune, must be because immune systems weaken as we age).</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>A friend of mine had it....female mid-40&#039;s, great health....took her almost 2 weeks to fight it off.&nbsp; And we all had the flu when we were younger (or more recent)....you fight it off, stay home and eat Pastina and watch TV <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />...you feel weak and tired, but nothing really terrible.&nbsp; My friend said she felt like she was at Death&#039;s Door for 2-3 days.</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u><span style="color: #ff0000">On a scale of 0-10, 0= normal health and 10= must go to hospital emergency room or ICU..... then the common cold is a 2 or 3....and the flu is a 4 or 5....then this thing for her was a 9.&nbsp;&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t just a 4 or 5 that lasted much much longer...the depth of the attack was much much stronger.</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the herd immunity theory is correct.&nbsp; Maybe if this virus ever comes back again the lethality, longevity to recover, and depth of sickness will all be reduced.&nbsp; I just know that while most of us may not get it or if we do get infected never know about it, too many who DO get it (like my friend) are either taking weeks to fight it off (not days) and/or requiring hospitalization and/or dying. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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