Yikes. Things got testy, didn't they?
posted by friendfromlowry
You think your odds of ending up on a ventilator will be reduced because you stayed inside for a few months but I don't understand things? Okay.
Don't know how else to explain it to you man. When life opens back up everything is going to be play at your own risk. Only difference is if you and a ton of others get sick, the hospitals will at least likely have that vent for you. The odds of getting deathly sick haven't been reduced...
Eh, the odds of getting deathly sick would have been reduced, sure, because the spread itself would have been slowed to such a degree that those with it who will recover would have done so. If fewer people have the virus, and those who have it know they have it without having spread it to others (the possibility of which goes up significantly if you leave the house as little as possible) and can be further quarantined until they're hopefully cleared, then of course you reduce your odds of becoming deathly ill, or even ill at all.
posted by SportsAndLady
Nothing that I’m saying has anything to do with me getting sick. I’m a healthy young person, if I get this I’m sure I’ll be fine. I stay inside so that I don’t get it and keep passing it along to others. You know, the ACTUAL reason for social distancing rules.
Eh, I'd refer you to the baseball player I referenced earlier in this thread (or maybe the last thread, not sure). The picture of health, with no known health conditions (not even minor ones).
That's what sucks. The people who have recovered from this and the people who haven't don't all fit neatly into any particular category. There are general rules, of course, like those who are elderly or otherwise sick die at a higher rate, but there are outliers as well: people who are elderly and/or who have underlying medical conditions who recover and people who are summarily healthy who don't.
posted by friendfromlowry
Lol, yeah. Agree to disagree. When things open back up here soon I guess continue to stay inside because your odds of passing it to someone haven’t went down.
Again, it lowers the risk of contracting it, so theoretically, it does lower the odds of passing it to someone else.
Unless you already have it and haven't recovered, of course. If that's the case, you're right.
posted by Laley23
And O-Trap may have a mutant kid if staying cooped up isn’t killing his family. We have an 11mo old so it’s fine, but his cousins are 4 and 2, and they just throw tantrums all day because they can’t do anything. I don’t know how a parent of a toddler is able to survive this with their sanity.
Don't know what to tell you. She's almost 2 and a half, so she fits well into 'toddler' territory, but she's chill, and she still sleeps about 14 hours a day. We take her on walks (keeping probably 25-30 feet between ourselves and others, because that's relatively easy to do on walks), play with her a lot, and do video calls with all the grandparents most every day, and that seems to keep her happy, so there aren't too many tantrums.
posted by Laley23
I pray you never have kids, man. Making a 4 year old girls day = lame as fuck...ok. I’m not going there for a great time, we are going to make her have a better birthday.
I don't mean to argue the point, so if you insist, I'll take your word for it, but driving by and waving doesn't strike me as the sort of thing that would make a 4-year-old's day. Not most 4-year-olds I know, anyway.
Kids are different, so of course, my little sample size doesn't represent anything substantial. Just struck me when I read that.