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Originally Posted by Leo656

Apparently, in most cases it simply is NOT that serious... unless you're really old, really fat, smoke cigarettes, and/or heavily abuse opiate medication.

Even the "experts" telling everyone to be terrified because "There's a lot we don't know", if you really pay attention to who's been hit hardest by this, that's what they say.

So again... don't be fat, don't smoke, don't take Oxy's. Apparently, do All That and even if you get sick, you'll be alright in about ten days. Sounds like good odds.

Meanwhile, I had "just" a cold and I couldn't get rid of it for six weeks. Wasn't a really horrible cold, but it refused to leave. And there's a part of my brain that isn't sure if I'd trade places with my niece; she had COVID, but got over it in five days and now she's perfectly fine. So if I had to choose between six weeks of a cold, OR being too sick to move at all for a few days, but ONLY a few days... huh. That's a thinker. Like, I DON'T want COVID, but... at the same time, 5 days vs. 5+ weeks. I don't know.

But yeah, I can totally believe Andrew honestly feels like it's "not that serious", because even for most people who catch it, it isn't. Statistically, like 1% of people who've had it had it "bad". People are just afraid of "The Unknown", afraid that they'll end up being one of the 1%. And that's reasonable, but it's not reasonable to take that and project it into a huge thing.

At the end of the day, you're still more statistically likely to get killed by a drunk driver than you are from this virus. And yet people still drive. Thus, I think 20 or so people can handle sitting in a movie theater several feet away from each other. Again, think gyms. Think Walmart. Closer quarters, more people, no outbreaks. You've gotta look past the fear and the "unknown" and look at what we DO know in the grand scheme of it all.

Well being overweight, smoking and improper drug use will affect your overall health in general. Not just a COVID19 thing.

I think it’s worth bringing up Sekou Smith (An NBA journalist) recently died from the virus and he was only 48. They didn’t mention any specifics but he was a regular on NBAtv and all around healthy as far as people knew. He had even lost weight sometime before. He was on tv talking about the latest news and then like 2 weeks later he died.

That should tell people how serious it is and can be. You just don’t know how it’ll affect you. Nobody is in absolute perfect health. Even if you don’t die it might have lasting effects on your body.

I guess I should mention a relative of mine also died from it last year. They were older but still. People SHOULD take it seriously.

I haven’t read up on public statistics or anything like that but sometimes I wonder...did it ever occur to people the shutdowns and quarantines actually helped and despite how bad it is even more people would have died if we kept everything open?

Looking at the numbers for AZ (which are probably off but still ballpark). The cases - deaths might seem like ok odds but the fact this is all a thing means it’s serious. It should not be about weighing odds. This is not what should what motivate people. There’s a virus everywhere.

A theater probably is cleaner than the grocery store but again you don’t know who’s going. Social Distancing is good and all but the whole 6 feet apart still seems short. You want me to cough or sneeze near you even at 10 feet?