This Video Is The Latest Video That Helps My Dumb Brain Understand The Coronavirus

White Sox Dave3/24/2020 4:57 PM

Now I've been hesitant to speak too much about the Coronavirus as I don't want to be responsible for pushing #FakeNews. I'm not a smart man, I fully recognize that. Statistics, projection, virality, and math as a whole make no sense at all to me. That said, I've read up on the Coronavirus more than anything I've read up on in my entire life. I HATE this motherfucker. That's not to say you or anyone else doesn't either, but this fucking virus ripped the White Sox away from my cold, dead hands.

But with that said I have stumbled across a lot of articles and journals that not only project outlook, but also make sense to me. Take this article for instance:

It has a LOT of data in the article and basically says we should be operating as normal as can be as not only a country, but as a world. Open schools, bars, restaurants, etc. The data and graphs that support the writer's theses in his work make sense to someone dumb like me, so for a little while I took it to heart. I was all like, "fuck yeah we're gonna have baseball back soon!" but nope... I sent it to a few doctor/pharmacist/med field friends of mine and they called it "dangerous" and "irresponsible".

The article was then taken down from the original site it was published on. But the point is that I fell victim to what is seemingly #FakeNews

That has happened a few other times as well. Today I woke up shit, showered, and shaved my eye socket beard to find this YouTube video. Now it's admittedly a few weeks old, but that changes 0.0% of the thesis of the video. Watch below:

I took one business stats class in college and pretty sure I cheated my way to a C. Don't remember but I remember a being in the class and passing it. Basically what it is telling us is that we have to hit the "inflection point" with the spread as the virus, or the point where the spread of the virus stays constant before it starts decreasing because infected people will eventually not be able to come into contact with any non-infected people. Can't get the corona if you already have it.

Sounds easy enough, right? If my slow, limited brain can make sense of that then anyone's can. From what I understand, China, South Korea, and a small amount of other countries have hit their inflection point already because they have taken extreme measures to stop the spread. Social distancing schmocial distancing, in other parts of the world you have to take your goddamn temperature to pick up groceries. These are the measures China has taken to stop the spread of the Coronavirus:

It's as dystopian a world as can be right now. Is it necessary? Yes? Maybe? Probably? No? I have no idea. I'm not smart enough to answer whether it is or isn't, I can only relay what they're saying and doing.

But what I (think) I do know is this: that we have to pick our poison on how to combat the disease. Take this chart for instance:

Do we not combat the disease at all, completely overflow our hospitals and healthcare system in general to get rid of this thing asap after it kills itself (and a LOT of people) off, while keeping our economy at least somewhat stable? Or do we let the thing drag out for a LONG time, curb the number of infected people as much as possible, keep hospitals at or near max capacity without letting them get too overflowed and probably decimate our economy while doing so? That's what President Trump is weighing right now and again, it's not for me to answer or even opine on. I'm not smart enough to do so.