By some of these posts, I have to assume that some on here don't have family older than 60 years. I do and I'm not visiting them, let alone banging any women. I was recently a witness of what regular flu can do (someone in their 40s) and the pneumonia is the biggest risk with flu as well. From what I understand, strep pneumonia is the most common in respiratory infections and that can lead to septic shock. This causes multiple organ failure that can include the heart and kidneys. It's a domino effect that isn't easy to stop and I watched someone beat the odds, by a hair and it was weeks in the ICU.
I don't see a downside to being cautious, no matter what your viewpoints might be from either a political or fatality rate point of view. For all I know, the girl that I could bang has it, or for that matter, I already do. The last thing I want to do is unknowingly pass it on to someone who isn't fortunate enough to be in the "relatively immune" group and have their life end because of it, while I am just happily banging away.
For those who like numbers:
I have been tracking this on a university site that counts confirmed cases (people sick enough to want/need a test). The actual number of those infected could be many multiples. I would share the site, but it is already intermittently crashing I would be happy to provide screen shots if anyone doubts what is below:
3/13/20 World: 137,445
3/18/20 World: 215,000 (it just broke 200,000 this morning). 120,000 still active, 83000 recovered, 8700 deaths (all rounded)
No, It doesn't sound like a huge number, globally, but the potential is incredible and there isn't any relief through inaction.
Since testing is low/slow in the US, let's call it a double in 5 days. (US on the same dates 1268 and 7769 =6X)
That puts us at 3.4 million cases in another 20 days. Who knows how many more just feeling bad.
Another 20 days, just staying at that "doubling" rate: 54,400,000.
Another 20 and we may close in on a billion.
Even at 1% that's a whole lot of hole digging.
I'm not fear peddling. I'm respect peddling.
As for me, I'm putting my D*ick on the bench for a bit. I have had dry spells before. This one will just be self imposed.