[Arctic Fox]

The virus that causes Covid-19 is not the first coronavirus to affect humans, and we can learn a lot from the earlier ones.

Four of them account for around a quarter of all common colds. If you average two colds a year, in the past two years one of your colds was probably caused by a coronavirus, yet you were affected no worse than from any other cold, quietly getting on with your life. Why? Because your body had seen that virus before and was able to quickly go on the attack. Chances are, anyone who contracts covid-19 might be badly-affected this time but will be a lot more resistant next time. It is quite possible that the Russian Flu of 1889/90, which killed one million people when the World's population was less than two billion, compared with almost eight billion today, was caused by one of those four coronaviruses.

How likely are you to catch Covid-19? There have been around five million cases Worldwide, of which 315,000 have died. Getting good data from some countries is notoriously tricky, for a number of reasons, so let's just look at the USA. Out of a population of 330 million there have been 1.5mn confirmed cases (0.5%) of which 90,000 (6%) have died. On average, nearly three million die in the USA each year, a number which will increase with the aging population. So without wishing to downplay the tragedy of any coronavirus death, you are considerably more likely to die from something else.

And the economy? Record numbers of unemployed. GDP way down. Technically in a recession. Of course, if you have lock-down and millions are prevented from going to work then the numbers aren't going to look too sharp. But once lock-down is loosened there will be a surge in demand from our not having been able to buy much recently, from restocking what has been run down and from changing from the "just in time" stocking levels businesses had adopted to the "just in case" levels so they do not get caught out next time.

So, regardless of whether or not the recently-announced vaccine lives up to its promise, we have a lot to look forward to.

Stay safe. Stay well. Stay positive.

[DDVeteran]

Getting tired of Covid news. No news is good news at this point.

[thelegges]

The villages UF hasn’t had a new case in 3 weeks

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by DDVeteran

Getting tired of Covid news. No news is good news at this point.

Judging by the number of people who have read my post - three - you are not alone

[Nucky]

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Judging by the number of people who have read my post - three - you are not alone

I read it earlier and thank you for your post. For a while there the threads were head spinning. I wanna learn not argue. A whole lot of knowledgeable people here no doubt but it gets a bit old with the abrasiveness. Some of the posts belonged on The Nothing Thread.

Good post Arctic Fox, Thanks.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Judging by the number of people who have read my post - three - you are not alone

Just goes to show, bad news travels fastest, and is prefered by people and all news services.
Good news does not sell papers was, and still is, the mantra, unless it involves puppies and kittens!
Thank you for your post.
No.5 to read post!!

[mamamia54]

Not so many replies because you titled it “good” news. Apparently, some people would rather hear the gloom and doom that’s posted daily. Same thing with the media, everyday we hear how many died but we never hear how many are leaving the hospital and how many didn’t even know they had this virus.

[Velvet]

Laughing at the comments and agreeing. Good news might not sell newspapers but it makes us smile... finally.

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Signs that Covid-19 is becoming less virulent, as sometimes happens with viruses. Italy and other places are also seeing this..

UPMC doctor says COVID-19 has become ‘less prevalent’ and isn’t making people as sick - pennlive.com