re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

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I am in the dead if you get it group with diabetes and COPD

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I take immunosuppressants to prevent organ rejection. I don't know how much that elevates my risk, but my transplant doctors made it clear early on that even simple infections could be very difficult or even deadly for me. I'm in my 40's so that probably helps some, but I've been taking precautions because I don't want to try and take on this virus with a suppressed immune system.

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I understand there is no choice but to open things up.
The country can not survive economicaly being shut down for
months. Folks like me just have to stay sheltered. Sucks but it is what it is.

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I realize that most people under retirement age don't have many, if any, of the highest risk factors (age combined with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or lung disease are at the top and account for most of the deaths). It's a shame that 36 million healthy people have had to lose their jobs (it is expected that at least 42% of job losses will be permanent), their financial security, and many weeks of access to important services, and access to preventive and diagnostic health care, over this.

We've known for many weeks which groups were going to account for most of the deaths (98.8% of deaths in MN, 97% in Alabama). That works out to about a 0.1% death rate for healthy people among known cases and as low as .005-.05% (among the otherwise healthy) when accounting for results from antibody tests that have revealed millions of completely asymptomatic cases in places like New York. In hindsight, we should have begun targeted measures for at risk people at least a month ago, while easing up on those not at risk so we didn't needlessly ruin the lives of so many millions of people.

But hindsight, as they say, is 20/20.