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HSS型HSP研究家の時田ひさ子です。

 

細胞および分子生物学・遺伝学の学士号、公衆衛生の修士号のERドクターの書いた記事を読みました。

 

「新生コロナはインフルエンザとは違う」という記事です。

（記事下に簡単に訳を入れています）

 

Think COVID19 is like the flu? Read this....

Let me introduce myself: I am a practicing ER doctor with a Bachelors degree in cell and molecular biology/genetics and a Masters degree in public health in addition to my doctorate.

COVID is not a flu. Not even a little. Here are reasons why:
1. It is a separate species. It is no more like influenza than you are like a hippo. DIFFERENT SPECIES.

2. It is an airborne virus. This means the tiny droplets can stay in the air for a full 2 hours. So if a person coughed in aisle 4 of Target 1.5 hours ago, they may be home now but their covid cloud is still hanging there just waiting for you to walk by and take a breath. Influenza is not an airborne virus. It is droplet spread- meaning someone has to directly crop dust you with their sneeze to get you sick. Covid is much more contagious.

3. Covid is more virulent. Virulence factor is a measure of how catchy something is. For example, the flu is like beer. It takes a bunch to get you drunk. Covid is more like tequila - A little goes a long way. You need to suck up a lot of flu particles to actually catch the flu; with covid, even a few particles is enough to infect you.

4. Covid has a longer incubation than the flu. When you catch the flu, you typically get sick in the next 1-2 days. This is awesome because it means you stay at home while contagious because you feel like a heap of fried garbage. Covid has a blissful 5-9 days of symptom free time during which you are well enough to head to the movies or to the gym while also being contagious enough to infect everyone you encounter.

5. Covid has a longer duration of illness than flu. With covid, you have a 5-9 days of blissful asymptomatic contagiousness. This then turns into about 1 week of cough and overall feeling like hell but still surviving. Week 2 is when things hit the fan and people end up unable to breathe and on a ventilator. Many stay on the vent for up to 15 days. 5 days incubating+7 kinda sick days + 15 days on a ventilator makes for 27 days of virus spreading illness, (assuming your don’t just die of massive asphyxiation and body-wide collapse from overwhelming infection somewhere in that last week).The flu has an average incubation of 1-2 days and sick time of 7 days for a total of 9 infectious days. In the world of deadly viruses, that 18 extra days might as well be a millennia.

6. Covid is more deadly. A LOT more deadly. The flu has about a 0.2% mortality rate, meaning 2 of every thousand people who get sick with flu will die. On the contrary, the death rate from covid is reportedly 2%, so 10 times more deadly than flu. Ten times more death seems like a lot more death to me. Whats more worrisome is that 2% is actually incorrect because it doesn’t kill kids so that skews the average. With covid, age is a major factor in survival. If we don’t include people under 30, the death rate for adults is on average 4.5%. 9 out of every 200 adults that get this will die from it. Do you know 200 adults? Do you think losing 9 of them is no big deal? Since mortality increases with age in covid, the risk gets worse as you get older so if we put 100 grannies in a room with covid, only 85 would make it out alive to make pies and tell great stories of the old days... and that just sucks.

I hope that helps to clarify why covid is in no way a flu, why you are in no way a hippo, and why staying home is the only way for non-essential people to do their part while I spend my days at work covered in a plastic poncho, sucking air through a stuffy respirator mask, leaving my scrubs in my driveway, showering the covid off at 4am when I get in, and thinking to myself “now do u still think it was just a flu?” as I risk my own life with my face 2 inches from their highly contagious, gasping mouth while I slide the plastic tube down their throat and start up the ventilator."

 

新型コロナはインフルエンザではない。

 

１．全くの別ものです。

 

２．コロナのウィルスは空中に２時間い続けることができる。

 

３．コロナは少量で人に感染する。

 

４．コロナは潜伏期間が長いので、伝染しやすい時期に気づかずにジムや映画に行ってウィルスを拡散させてしまう。

 

５．コロナは発症期間が長い。

 

６．コロナの致死率はインフルエンザの１０倍というデータが出ているが、３０代以上に限って算出し直すと４．５％に跳ね上がる。

　　２００人いたら９人が死亡する。

　　死ぬ確立は、年を取ると上がる。

 

コロナはインフルエンザとは全く違うものだという認識が必要。

家にいることだけが、感染拡大を防ぐ手段です。

 

 

EDドクターは、コロナとインフルエンザは、
人間とカバくらい違う、

というユニークな表現をされていますが、

毎日５センチの距離で患者の呼気を浴びて命を危険にさらしながら

患者を人工呼吸器に繋ぎ、朝も夜もない生活を送っているとのことです。

 

 

週末の吉祥寺は、コロナで外出自粛だとは思えないほどの人出があって、

センター通りはコミコミだったのだとか。

 

吉祥寺は先週末と同じにぎわい「いいんだよ、別に」

 

 

ではまた！！！