Thank you, Glenda. That presentation should be sent to every human being...and printed across every available mode of communication. If there's a lack of understanding so often created by the medical authorities and their jargon...this article would erase it and help people understand why it's so important to adhere to the "stay-at-home" advice being given.

Thanks Glenda, this is sobering. Also today I read a graphic account by a respiratory therapist ... floored by how quickly this virus damages lungs, how little can be done, how awful it is to die from respiratory distress. If anyone needs even more first hand accounts to put "the fear" of this virus in you, you can look it up.

Let those who think they are invulnerable, and those not afraid, think again.

I wonder how China with a popular of more than three times that of the entire US has managed to keep the death rate down so low. While here in the US they are spitting out numbers of possibly as many as over 2 million will die!?

Has Alabama issued a shelter in place, stay home order?

arkansas girl, if you click on thread "This helped me understand" and read that article, you will get some answers.

For those that are interested the most severe stage that is still being called pneumonia by some is ARDS. Look it up.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of
widespread inflammation in the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of
breath, rapid breathing, and bluish skin coloration. Among those who
survive, a decreased quality of life is relatively common.

Apparently people are calling this, the original post above, Facebook rubbish.

Here is one response when it was posted and then removed from another site:

I keep seeing this post and it reads the same, but I have been trying
to track its origins (in your post, it is attributed to "Ryan
Beaumont," and, as I near as I can tell, he is actually a Registered
Respiratory Therapist and COPD Educator) according to LinkedIn

But, it was published yesterday on Tom King's blog for WSAU Wausau, WI and attributed to a "Kat Storti," here:

https://wsau.com/blogs/tom-kings-blog/54/its-not-just-the-flu/

So
I finally found a fb post from March 13 from a Kimberly Dawn Barker, an
RN in Oakland, CA, that seems to have started it all here:

https://www.facebook.com/Sailboatdog/posts/3051612344906616?hc_location=ufi

While
most of the information is pretty benign and actually makes a lot of
common sense, there is a lot wrong with it as well. Novel viruses do
not, by definition, come from animals (that's a "zoonotic disease"; a
"novel virus" is a new one). RNA sequencing has little to do with how
well the body's immune system deals with an infection (though prior
exposure does). "Slippery" does not refer to the speed at which a virus
mutates, but rather a structure within RNA where frame shifting events
occur. And two strains do not necessarily make it "twice as hard" to
develop a vaccine; vaccines sometimes work for different strains of the
same flu (depending on how large the mutation is).

The oddest
thing is, twice I have seen this attributed to people by, at least,
semi-reputable sources (The Livingston Parish News in your post and WSAU
in Wausau, WI). From what appears to have been a facebook post from an
RN in Oakland. Which leads me to believe reporters are just pulling sh*t
off their friends facebook pages because it "sounds about right" and
reporting it as authoritative.

While here in the US they are spitting out numbers of possibly as many as over 2 million will die!?

I do believe what they mean is "if" we don't follow health department orders and guidelines. So if people want to be fools, acting immortal, the death toll will overwhelm us.

If we're determined to stay at home except for essentials, it slows the spread and lowers the death rate.

Very easy to understand. Even a fool should understand that.

Michael, did you notice that the quote at the beginning is phony? There most likely is no Shelby AL City Health Department. graywings called it Facebook rubbish.

"Misinformation", passed on more or less innocently by folks wanting to be helpful but who didn't do enough research?

Or "disinformation", falsehoods intentionally created by disreputable folks wanting to spread anxiety and fear, plus dissension and divisions in society.

ole joyful

I think there are more than these two words to consider, others a better fit.

How about thinking of it as phony information? Fake or false information? I think any of these are a better choice.

The stated source doesn't exist. So the whole thing is phony, written by who knows who and with no or who knows what for background. Most people understand to disregard information or advice from sources like that.

I understand that passing along fake information wasn't intended. Of course not, it was intended to be helpful. But that doesn't give it any more veracity. We all need to be careful about "information" we share with others, especially at times like this. The internet is full of falsehoods that look real.

What more is there to know?