D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Done carryout or drive through (things we could reheat at home)... but haven't actually eaten in a restaurant since middle of March. :-(

Covid barely got here last time round.
Wife's family whenever someone has a birthday they pick a restaurant.

Including partners it means we tend to go out every month for an event and we tend to dine out every 2-4 weeks.

Students keep things very cheap. $15-25 gets you something very nice.

 

[Cadence]

Covid barely got here last time round.

I eagerly await it going down here so we can start doing it again! On the other hand, our household budget is doing great eating at home.

 

[Umbran]

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

That is an almost a perfectly incorrect reading of the statistics.

The truth of the matter can be better seen when you look at Excess Deaths - deaths per week above what is expected for the period. Starting in April, the US has had 5% or more deaths per week than is expected - often more like 25% more. The below graph is from the CDC, and shows weekly deaths in the US back to the start of 2017. Anything above the red line is, statistically speaking, clearly in excess. There's a peak back around Jan 2018, with the swine flu that season. And then you see a whole lot starting in April 2020.

So, it is pretty clear that we have a whole bunch of people dying this year that would not otherwise have died. We are currently 200,000+ in excess deaths already, and the year isn't done yet.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

It sucks. We have not done any D&D. I played with my kid—-did a few encounters and made his character but that is it.

I won’t get political and don’t care what other people do. I really don’t! Until it effects others.

went to a game store, masked up, socially distanced. Hand sanitizer after I walked out. Take the pain now people. It won’t be forever unless we make it forever.

I’m in the US. Pretty conservative honestly but reality is reality. I work in a healthcare setting and I see the positive results and talk with the doctors myself. Unless my colleagues are all in a secret society I don’t know about this sh*t is real and not good.

we probably should get savvy with the online D&D for a while...

 

[billd91]

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

That is not how life expectancy works.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

Nearly everyone who is killed or seriously harmed is in thier 70s or later with 2 or more serious co-morbities.

If not for media hype causing government over reactions nobody would have even noticed there was a new flu virus here. The actual viruses impact on the life of the average person would have been less then that of a normal flu season.

Besides the fact that you're minimizing the 188,000+ American deaths that have happened in 8 months, you're also incorrect about this being overreaction.

This virus can permanently damage your heart, lungs, and brain. This virus is much more fatal than the flu, and the pandemic has caused much, much more damage to the average person than a flu season would.

(Also, the word is comorbidity, and people with other conditions have no less of a right to live. I've had trouble breathing my whole life, and that doesn't make me any less valuable to society.)

Edit: I forgot to point out that the permanent damage to heart, lungs, and brain are in cases where you are asymptomatic. This effects/can effect everyone who is infected.

 

[Garthanos]

Last week we had more cases than any week prior in my county ... it's definitely getting worse.

 

[ccs]

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

Nearly everyone who is killed or seriously harmed is in thier 70s or later with 2 or more serious co-morbities.

If not for media hype causing government over reactions nobody would have even noticed there was a new flu virus here. The actual viruses impact on the life of the average person would have been less then that of a normal flu season.

Awful lotta extra dead people outside typical flu seasons all over the world all at once....
Bunches of survivors with all manner of ongoing new problems they didn't have before....

I think it'd get noticed.

 

[Hussar]

We had a spike at the beginning of August, no particular reason why, but, things have been trending downwards again on a weekly basis. It's entirely possible due to better testing. No one really seems to know. But, again, our schools have been open this whole time (other than a week or so off in August) and, other than masking, virtually no government lockdown.

People just actually doing their due diligence.

 

[Zardnaar]

We had a spike at the beginning of August, no particular reason why, but, things have been trending downwards again on a weekly basis. It's entirely possible due to better testing. No one really seems to know. But, again, our schools have been open this whole time (other than a week or so off in August) and, other than masking, virtually no government lockdown.

People just actually doing their due diligence.

Think schools closed about 5 weeks here.

That approach won't work so well elsewhere. Cultural reasons (you can't tell me what to do).

6 months ago found out we make a type of ventilator. Turns out they're the ones that are better to use vs entubing ones.

F & P Healthcare's making millions and saving lives

The New Zealand company making the machines keeping Covid patients alive is cashing in big-time from the pandemic, but says it also feels huge responsibility.

www.rnz.co.nz