in the presence of ongoing fear, anxiety and reinforced by propaganda.

Yes, they may as well walk into traffic with a blindfold being worn.

too. MOST are fairly young & missed going to the Mall all the time & meeting their friends there. I'm guessing most of them will be lucky and not get infected, but I'm positive some will get the virus & THEN change their mind...too late! One of my granddaughters & her boyfriend both believe this virus isa like the flu we deal with every year and have spent HOURS arguing their point with anyone who will listen. They spread their message on social media where they seem to have lots of people agree with them.

I really hope you & I are proven wrong, but fear were not. We'll see in about a month.

The Great Herd of Migrating Viruses - National Geographic

EVERY MAY, A herd of viruses thunders through East Africa in one of the greatest migrations in the natural world.

For a few months, 1.3 million wildebeest head north through the Serengeti in search of food and water. There are so many of them that their lines can stretch from one horizon to the next. And almost every one of these animals is infected by a virus called acelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1).

250,000: Number of wildebeest who die during the annual migration, either from thirst or starvation or disease

I’m seeing some really appalling photos of bar crowds around town tonight.

Link to tweet

dumbasses

is just insane.

Columbus, OH
Franklin County
As of Sat, May 16, 2020, 5:06 AM EDT
CONFIRMED CASES
4,330
+ 16.7%Since last week
DEATHS
156
+ 36.8%Since last week

all over my FB feed. Love that many of my friends are tweeting them to DeWine. We went out for a drive last night cuz our cars never get driven anymore. Everywhere we saw a patio, it was jammed.

Most of those people in that picture look in the under 25 years old cohort, and thus have an extraordinarily low (71 total COVID-19 deaths per the CDC have been under 25 years old, out of 104 million people) chance of death, so they do not give a shit (to be blunt.)

It is going to be Boomers and up versus the younger Gen Xers and then Millennials (the oldest turn 40 in 7 and a half months) and younger. The vast bulk of DUers are double or even triple my age (I was born in 1996), so there is not a lot of feedback here that relates the feeling of younger people in our own social groups. The lack of death/severe illness risk for us is a major subject with my peers, I can assure you. I also assume that that type of attitude and expressed (verbally/physically) behaviour would be met with extreme outrage (properly so, IMHO.) here. I am but the messenger, I do not share this cavalier attitude of which I am speaking.


https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku/data




Under 15 years of age (over 61 million people in the US) 12 total documented COVID-19 deaths in that cohort.

Under 25 years of age (over 104 million people), 71 total documented COVID-19 deaths (59 plus 12)

Under 35 years of age (over 150 million people) 459 total deaths (71 plus 388)

Under 45 years of age (over 191 million people) 1432 total documented deaths (459 + 973)



99% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 35 years of age and over cohort

97% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 45 years of age and over cohort

92% from the 55 years of age and over cohort


Even if you multiply those deaths time 1.65 (as the totals are not completely up to date and 1.65 gets the totals for all age cohorts to around 90,500 COVID-19 deaths for the US), the percentages and raw numbers are so, so low

Here in Sweden, the lower age cohorts also have lower death rates, even after adjusting for population, and remember, we have not ever locked down, nor shut our under high school-level schools the whole time

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa (these numbers are completely up to date, and we are quite liberal with cause of death attribution, moreso than our undercounting neighbours in Norway, Denmark, and Finland)

One COVID-19 death under 20 years of age (a 4 year old, last week, with massive comorbidity, we still have zero deaths ages 5 to 19)

9 total deaths under 30yo (8 + 1)

21 total deaths under 40yo (12 + 9)

58 total deaths under 50 (37 + 21)

99% of COVID-19 deaths here in Sweden have been over 50 years of age

95% of the COVID-19 deaths here have been over 60yo

88% of the COVID-19 deaths here been over 70 years of age

66% of the COVID-19 deaths here been over 80 years old

25% of the COVID-19 deaths here been over 90 years old

but I think it's ok to lie about even if you aren't.

They’ll just get very mild symptoms which will reinforce their belief that it’s all overblown. Then they’ll be even more obnoxious.