A few responses to a handful of the above comments:
Re commercial air travel, I think it’s been pretty well shown that spread on the plane itself is very low. However, getting to the plane is a different story...
...My wife flew to Denver a few weeks ago, with empty middle seats. She left from a small regional airport and changed planes in Minneapolis. Once she got to Denver, the packed-like-cattle shuttle between terminals was unavoidable and had her concerned...
...Two days after getting home (5 days after that flight) she got a mild “cold”. No fever, just a little cough and some mild sore throat. Three days after that I got the same thing - no fever, some nasal congestion, zero cough. It wasn’t even a “bad” cold. Because neither of us got fever, which is reportedly present in about 90% of Covid-19 cases, I figured the odds of both of us not having fever made it highly unlikely it was Covid-19. Both of us recovered from our mild symptoms within about a week. Both of us are in our mid-60’s, very healthy and active, and not overweight (well...SHE isn’t; I need to lose about 13lb for that to be “honest”).
Our local blood bank just started doing Covid antibody testing, hoping to identify potential donors of antibody serum. When we donated, about 5 weeks after our symptoms started, both of us tested positive, meaning we had recovered from a Covid-19 infection.
One thing that stood out for me but not my wife was the loss of smell. It was COMPLETE and lasted for weeks. Even now, about 6 weeks past the start, I’d say it’s still only at 50% at best. That was definitely a red flag but to be honest, with no fever or cough I chose to believe that was a “normal” part of a cold that I hadn’t really paid attention to in the past. We did isolate during the illness and nobody around us got the illness - thank goodness.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere I’m a Family Physician so it was easy for me to “scientifically” talk myself into saying it wasn’t Covid. It also means I should have known better.
This is a serious illness and we were very lucky. Don’t forget: 83.3% of the time people playing Russian Roulette walk away with zero change to their lives.
Not sure of the current stats (and I realize this is “global”) but this graph really caught my eye. Although most people who get it are young, most who die are older:
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