COVID keeps winning because healthy people aren’t protecting vulnerable people thru social distancing and home isolation. The Rona is a sneaky virus. It gets healthy people juuuuust enough sick to spread it, but not sick enough to make them stay home. 80% of people with healthy immune systems will get mild respiratory symptoms. They will not be tested for COVID bc there are not enough tests. But they also need to home isolate for 7 days after symptoms (or 3 days after fever. Whatever interval is longer). If they don’t isolate themselves they will likely pass it to someone who does NOT have the defenses to fight off this virus. There is no vaccine and no cure for COVID. Immune compromised people are likely to get a severe infection that attacks their lungs. Symptoms are painful breathing, short breath, wheezing. This can lead to pneumonia. Similar to SARS, this can progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome. This is life threatening and requires ventilator and critical care to save someone. 20% of cases will need hospitalization. Due to the outbreak, hospitals simply do no have capacity to handle this. People will die from lack of medical intervention.
Do your part. Stay the f*ck at home. Take any symptoms seriously. Act as if you’re carrying this virus and protect those around you by maintaining distance and telling them to take this seriously too. It’s the 80% who need to protect the 20%.
