Quote from: Tash on March 13, 2020, 02:32:21 AM

Blood pressure pills (ACE inhibitors) may be making people die from Coronavirus

no no no
dont even try starting that myth
people who die from corona have health issues already.
so dont go starting to say its medication thats causing corona deaths. when the truth is its a health issue the person has that causes it.. and separetly they just happen to be taking medication for that health issue, when the get corona. but because they have an underlying health issue. means they are at risk

myths like you are trying to pursue will make people think if they stop taking their regular medication they wil be safe from corona. truth is by not taking the medication they would be multiplying their risk further

same goes for things like vit C.. by pushing Vit C as a 'prevents corona'..(facepalm) people think if they just eat a vitamin tablet the day they want to visit their elderly relatives they wil be shielded from having, passing or getting affected by corona..
obviously not the case
...

i have heard many stupid myths recently.
even some far fetched ones like because the death toll is high in the elderly. some stupid people have been saying corona is being spread through ready-made meals that are being distributed mainly to elderly peoples homes as that would explain the eerily higher death rate of that age group (facepalm)

truth is pretty much everyone will get corona. and every year there will be a corona flu. (sometimes low risk sometimes higher risk (usually higher risk ones happen every 5-0 years))
however. the thing to care most about is to not try spreading it to people with weak immune symptoms.
basically things where theymos was saying he can understand isolating retirement villages but cant understand why to isolate/close universities.. its because the uni students wont be much at risk themselves. but its to help avoid the students from getting it quickly and randomly and unknowingly, to then spread it to their weaker immune relatives.

also by preventing it from spreading quickly through everyone so quickly. it slows down and delays the chances of it mutating
its much better everyone gets it over a year where its mainly one strain. than it is where people get it all in a month and it then, due to having billions of people incubating it in that month. having a higher chance of it mutating. and then reinfecting people with the new strain quickly again.

by only having a couple hundred thousand people a month getting it. the chances of it mutating is lower. meaning that the same strain passes around for the year. instead of new strains every month.

like i said its mainly about isolating not to prevent death from the young(as the young aint really that much at risk). but more so prevent it rapidly spreading out of control which can then hit the weakened immune people faster and harder