The general narrative seems to be that unless you're older and/or obese, Covid doesn't usually affect you much (yes there are outliers). I would imagine the port workers to be physically fit - is this a misconception?
It's quite likely that most of the workers in question aren't worse off than with a "normal" flu, but they're still going to be away from work for a while.
Someone defined the difference as "if you think you're going to die, and feel that dying might be better than staying sick - then you have the flu. Otherwise you have a cold.".
Was super sick once. Was informed that a child was pouring chocolate milk on my laptop. I couldn’t have cared less at that point.
I am making some assumptions here, but I would venture to guess a lot of these people just fake it and grind through it just to stay employed.
Coronavirus has many, many, MANY ways of affecting a person for decades to come, and we're learning more about it every day.
Edit: since I'm getting downvoted, I assume this comes from people who want sources, so here they are:
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lungs-scarring-smokers-lu...
- https://www.helmholtz.de/en/health/what-damage-is-potentiall...
that seems like a very low bar to set
Though one manages it in a few weeks while the other takes decades.
A bike is like a car. It has wheels and you ride it from point A to B.
> While the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower. For seasonal influenza, mortality is usually well below 0.1%. However, mortality is to a large extent determined by access to and quality of health care.
> While the range of symptoms for the two viruses is similar, the fraction with severe disease appears to be different. For COVID-19, data to date suggest that 80% of infections are mild or asymptomatic, 15% are severe infection, requiring oxygen and 5% are critical infections, requiring ventilation. These fractions of severe and critical infection would be higher than what is observed for influenza infection.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
And aside from that, a large problem with covid-19 is the DDoS on the health care system stemming from the severe infection rates, which can create large second order effects.
I feel you are being willfully ignorant, and I have to suggest you look into the severity of COVID and the statistics so far. It's been going on for over a year now, the information is out there.
So 0.1% probably is the correct order of magnitude.
Same applies at smaller scale for other factors in baseline mortality, like traffic deaths and industrial accidents, that have also been suppressed by policy and behavior changes due to the pandemic.