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04-06-2020, 6:31am | #21 | ||||||
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Some tin foil hats up in this bitch.
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that false prediction and the panic it created... along with this COVID-19 hype... has a name: it is called "the CNN effect". |
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Any software you are using that uses a date storage system that would break due to the change from 1999 to 2000, you'd know it was garbage already because of the other 10,000 ways it did stuff in a horrible fashion. Almost all commercial software, and yes this is somewhat short-sighted, is using the UNIX time_t structure for time storage, even if they don't know it. It is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970 in Greenwich England. On 16-bit and 32-bit platforms that becomes a problem in 2037 if the storage is a signed long integer (32-bits it will go negative then.) If it is defined as an unsigned integer, which it probably isn't, then you have until about 2104. However, this is all a moot point because all we have to do, at some point in the next 37 years or so, is fix the C-language libraries, or whatever libraries are being used. BTW, for Linux and Microsoft C-language libraries, this was corrected very quickly, sometime around 2001-ish. We weren't even in a big hurry to do it. Yes, some creaky software used two bytes to store just the last two digits of the year in some of their date formats. That software almost assuredly didn't using date/times stored like that in calculations. It was just used to store stuff like "Date of birth" or something. It wasn't used for aircraft navigation, financial transactions, or whatever critical type stuff you can think of because believe it or not, programmers aren't idiots and are always thinking about stuff like "Will this continue to work for the foreseeable lifetime of this software?" The programs that were at issue were almost all either simply corrected or so old and outdated that there were plenty of other choices to replace it. |
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as of Sunday night:
Covid-19 confirmed cases worldwide vs. confirmed deaths worldwide: 5.1% confirmed US cases vs. confirmed US deaths: 2.8% |
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A: They don't, even though the media keeps saying they do. With the flu it's calculated using an estimated number of cases, which is a huge number, but it's calculated for this virus using only the confirmed number of cases. Why the difference? |
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Medically this is not the same as the flu because the body is reacting differently to it than the run of the mill flu.
Normally your immune system doesn't over react like it does with COVID-19. Yes it is just another strain but this strain is different. |
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BTW some of you guys need to step away from the Youtube vids for a while.
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Correct, but that doesn't explain why the mortality rate should be calculated differently.
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Fear of the unknown but there is a case and proof now to be fearful. You might get it and be fine. I might get it and be dead. The flu is fairly predictable. 99% are cases of old and compromised that die from it. This has not been the same. |
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Why for this specific virus is the mortality rate being calculated using only confirmed cases when an estimated number of cases is used for the same calculation for all others? That has nothing to do with how it affects people. |
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