Common Questions and Straight Answers (Part 1)

Why has a “cold virus” become such a big problem?

Here’s the short answer: It’s true that most people don’t die when they get sick. It mostly kills folks who are already a little sick, fragile, older-aged, and/or don’t normally get good healthcare. Because we didn’t prepare to protect our vulnerable citizens as we should have, the number of deaths is staggering. This nasty, invisible, bug has already killed more Americans since January than we lost in World War I- that’s twice as many who died in Viet Nam over twelve years. And it is spreading faster and faster and faster.

Here is a little more explanation:

One-touch is all it takes- (Highly Transmissible/Contagious)

COVID-19 travels from one person to another easily. People who have it can give it to somebody else without even trying. All that the bug needs to move from person to person is for somebody who has it to touch something and leave it there. When somebody else touches that place, all they must do is touch their mouth or even inhale it, and now they are carrying it.

Silent spread (Asymptomatic transmission)

This is a huge problem. Many people have it for weeks without knowing it. While they have it, but don’t know it, they can easily pass it to other people. This is especially a problem for young people. Since they are sometimes more social, and they may not ever get serious symptoms, they are the perfect tools for the virus to spread itself. Inevitably, quietly, and ruthlessly, the virus makes its way from mostly healthy people who have it but don’t know it, to people who are vulnerable.

Where are so many people dying from it?

The number of people who are getting it is enormous. Because so many people get it, it will eventually get to somebody whose body can’t handle it.

Let’s use math to show you what is happening.  Let’s say one person gets the virus. While that person doesn’t know they have it, and mingles with other people, the virus is on the rampage. The virus very easily ‘jumps’ from the first person to someone else. 1×2 = 2. If unchecked, the cycle repeats itself.  2 x 4 = 8, 8 x 2 = 16, 16 x 2 = 32 and on and on.

Next, we’ll talk about all of the numbers that we see and hear.