How ugly could it get? Trump faces echoes of 1929 in coronavirus crisis.

[WEATHER53]

189 deaths in three months within a population of 327 million. That's the approximate death rate for common cold complications in the sick and elderly.

That’s because if it were business and schooling as usual, there would be millions of deaths.

Here’s what it will do to you:

What coronavirus does to the body: COVID infection process, symptoms

“Once inside the body, it begins infecting epithelial cells in the lining of the lung. A protein on the receptors of the virus can attach to a host cell's receptors and penetrate the cell. Inside the host cell, the virus begins to replicate until it kills the cell.

This first takes place in the upper respiratory tract, which includes the nose, mouth, larynx and bronchi.

The patient begins to experience mild version of symptoms: dry cough, shortness of breath, fever and headache and muscle pain and tiredness, comparable to the flu.


The 13.8% of severe cases and 6.1% critical cases are due to the virus trekking down the windpipe and entering the lower respiratory tract, where it seems to prefer growing.

“The lungs are the major target,” Hirsch said.

As the virus continues to replicate and journeys further down the windpipe and into the lung, it can cause more respiratory problems like bronchitis and pneumonia, according to Dr. Raphael Viscidi, infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Medicine.


Pneumonia is characterized by shortness of breath combined with a cough and affects tiny air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, Viscidi said. The alveoli are where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

When pneumonia occurs, the thin layer of alveolar cells is damaged by the virus. The body reacts by sending immune cells to the lung to fight it off.

"And that results in the linings becoming thicker than normal," he said. "As they thicken more and more, they essentially choke off the little air pocket, which is what you need to get the oxygen to your blood."

“So it’s basically a war between the host response and the virus,” Hirsch said. “Depending who wins this war we have either good outcomes where patients recover or bad outcomes where they don’t.”

Restricting oxygen to the bloodstream deprives other major organs of oxygen including the liver, kidney and brain.

In a small number of severe cases that can develop into acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which requires a patient be placed on a ventilator to supply oxygen.

However, if too much of the lung is damaged and not enough oxygen is supplied to the rest of the body, respiratory failure could lead to organ failure and death.

Viscidi stresses that outcome is uncommon for the majority of patients infected with coronavirus. Those most at risk to severe developments are older than 70 and have weak immune responses. Others at risk include people with pulmonary abnormalities, chronic disease or compromised immune systems, such as cancer patients who have gone through chemotherapy treatment.

All this does is establish the self fulfilling prophecy that “it’s not so bad because of what we did” and of course there is No Way to measure either that or what would have happened without intervention
Once again speculation and with No counterpoint available then how so very convenient to try and claim “our actions prevented it”

 

[Sandy Shanks]

In the past ten years there have been several incidences of a man being laid off from his job, then returning to his factory or store with a gun and shooting up the place, killing co-workers and customers alike. Or a student or former student takes out his frustration on a school. Is that more likely to happen because of the conditions created by our politicians? It is reasonable to expect that to be true. It may already have begun, but the media and the Trump White House are too busy telling us all the horrible things that may happen to us.

The suicide and murder rates are already high in the U.S. It is reasonable to assume that there will be a sharp increase in those numbers.

 

[Denizen]

In the past ten years there have been several incidences of a man being laid off from his job, then returning to his .or store with a gun and shooting up the place, killing co-workers and customers alike. Or a student or former student takes out his frustration on a school. Is that more likely to happen because of the conditions created by our politicians? It is reasonable to expect that to be true. It may already have begun, but the media and the Trump White House are too busy telling us all the horrible things that may happen to us.

"In the past ten years there have been several incidences of a man being laid off from his job, then returning to his .or store with a gun and shooting up the place" Should read "In the past ten years there have been several incidences of a man being laid off from his job, then returning to his factory or store with a gun and shooting up the place"

Wowee. The security at the White House needs to be upgraded. A lot of people have been fired from their jobs in the Trump factory of fiction.