Demographic is changing Covid-19

[queenofthehive]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-people.html?action=clickThe demographic is changing (or coming to light) and very worrisome.

 

[a1tinkfans]

Such a learning curve ...
scary indeed.

 

[Ben E N]

Could this be related to more older people taking it very seriously, while more younger people feel that they are completely invincible? Makes sense to me, and reiterates how we all have to work together to get through this.

 

[VandVsmama]

Could this be related to more older people taking it very seriously, while more younger people feel that they are completely invincible? Makes sense to me, and reiterates how we all have to work together to get through this.

This x 1000.

 

[aprilchem]

Could this be related to more older people taking it very seriously, while more younger people feel that they are completely invincible? Makes sense to me, and reiterates how we all have to work together to get through this.

This - and I think the media is hyping it as a way to try to make younger people take it seriously. I work at a college and I had to break up a 100+ person party over the weekend - as we were shutting down and students were supposed to be leaving campus. Many of my students were still planning to go on their spring break trips and could not fathom why I would be telling them not to.

 

[Jennasis]

Those idiots on the beach in Florida...I can't even.

 

[erc]

The problem with obesity, diabetes, and asthma in young people finally showing when that can be a real problem. Don't worry the beach bums are not showing up in the emergency rooms.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

No matter your age, if you get this you run the risk of permanent, life changing lung damage. Everyone is focused on the death rate. This disease seems to be maiming more people than it kills.

 

[luvsJack]

The problem with obesity, diabetes, and asthma in young people finally showing when that can be a real problem. Don't worry the beach bums are not showing up in the emergency rooms.

The article clearly said that the report did not indicate if the younger patients had underlying health problems.

And do you have a source about the “beach bums”? How do you know none of them will get sick?

 

[BuckeyeBama]

The article clearly said that the report did not indicate if the younger patients had underlying health problems.

And do you have a source about the “beach bums”? How do you know none of them will get sick?

Many of them will - it is a statistical probability.

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

The message that this virus is of little danger to young people and kids is, perhaps, the biggest lie being told. There will be many young children that will be separated from the people they rely on most in life - their parents. Of those kids, their best outcome will be a prolonged separation from one or both parents. Worst outcome: a permanent separation.

Even young adults in, for example, their 20’s have much to lose here. While they may not rely on their parent(s) directly for things like food, clothing and shelter, they do (and will) rely on their parents for all the priceless advice and guidance that young people get from their parents as they navigate their way into adulthood. Not to mention the fact that any future children the young adult has stand to be deprived of the love of the doting grandparents they never got to meet. Again, the notion that this virus is of little concern to young people is the biggest lie being told.

 

[AppleDumpling]

No matter your age, if you get this you run the risk of permanent, life changing lung damage. Everyone is focused on the death rate. This disease seems to be maiming more people than it kills.

I haven’t heard that; that is scary. This whole thing is so crazy and scary.

 

[Ben E N]

The article clearly said that the report did not indicate if the younger patients had underlying health problems.

And do you have a source about the “beach bums”? How do you know none of them will get sick?

These sorts of articles aren't including that information because it makes people think "well I'm young and strong", which only helps further the spread. But yes, pretty much every case of anyone under 40 in an ICU had some sort of underlying health condition - diabetes, hypertension, or respiratory ailments, even if they didn't know it before getting sick.

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

I wonder if smoking and vaping play a part?

 

[Imzadi]

Have you guys seen the Instagram video Vanessa Hudgens made where she said her thoughts about the Coronavirus? She's 31 now. She was doing a beauty video on Instagram Live and someone asked her what she thought about the Coronavirus lasting to possibly July.

She said she thought that was such B.S. Like the virus and how it's being handled is interrupting her life. She said, "If everybody gets it, like, people are going to die. Terrible." She shrugs. "But, inevitable?"

She obviously doesn't think it's that terrible, as apparently she must have been hatched out of an egg and doesn't have parents or grandparents she cares about. Or that any of her followers watching will get it, so, oh well, too bad, so sad for those that die.

She doesn't get, no, it's not inevitable. Everyone should not be getting it. People shouldn't get it just so they can then go on with life. There still isn't enough known about this and whether getting it once means one can't get it again. So much for life being interrupted for a short time. (The first person in NYC who got it, got over it, and she was tested again yesterday. She showed absolutely NO signs of the virus in her. The doctors say they need that info to learn how long it stays in the body. But, didn't say if the info was good or bad. As in, can she still get it again as she has no signs of it?)

Vanessa's video went viral and she was BLASTED on social media for her comments. The next day she apologizes. Saying it was taken out of context. Except, those were her only comments on the matter. So it was in context. And she is staying home. And everyone else too. . . Because everyone has been ordered to, NOT because she gets how being out in the world, she could possibly infect others.

Here are the 2 videos. TMZ compiled them together. WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE! She says bull **** in it at the beginning of the first one. So don't say I didn't warn you. If words like that offend you, stay away from the video.

Vanessa Hudgens videos - WARNING: foul language at beginning

 

[luvsJack]

These sorts of articles aren't including that information because it makes people think "well I'm young and strong", which only helps further the spread. But yes, pretty much every case of anyone under 40 in an ICU had some sort of underlying health condition - diabetes, hypertension, or respiratory ailments, even if they didn't know it before getting sick.

Source?

 

[Ben E N]

Source?

Bloomberg news is the most reputable one that I have come across that has shared that in one place.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I wonder if smoking and vaping play a part?

It seems likely.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-the-risk-of-a-severe-coronavirus-infection1/

 

[DopeyDame]

All along I was confused why people were blowing off the risk to young people. All the stats I see indicate teens and 20-somethings have at least a 0.2% death rate. Obviously much lower than older people, but still more than twice as deadly as the flu!

 

[MrsBooch]

I assumed this is because of the massive cultural difference between China and the west - Everyone is told to stay in, can't go out. Older people are vulnerable. So in one culture - everyone listens, to protect older people. Because they don't feel entitled to something. But of course HERE you have an age group that feels entitled and impervious - and they don't take it seriously. They hear only that they are excluded from the caution group - they don't want THEIR trips ruined - so they change nothing and do whatever they want. They don't listen to authority and now they're getting sick simply because - everyone CAN get sick.