Yep. Only the flu. Except that it is a cold, no one is immune, and the death rate is rapidly approaching 7% and likely to go even higher.
The government does not take the flu lightly, and this is 66 times more deadly.
I’d prefer not to have it spreading uncontrolled through the population. I guess some people won’t take it seriously until 1 of the 15 people who contracts Covid-19 and dies is someone they know, maybe even a family member.
7% death rate - oh no! I am no longer a Flubro!
Wait...I have a brain and 7% is a lie. Still a flubro.
Oh please. The death rate is no where near 7%. More bullsh***t from a Fearper who want Uncle Sam to give her everything.
Here is what you do. For the true current death rare take deaths and divide by ALL cases. Thst gives you the ACTual Currenr death rate.
You are a Fearper. Subclassification data manipulator ... may be heading toward DHB (despicable human being) designation
Only 66? Where do you get your numbers? Last I heard, it was 4,765 times more deadly. Or perhaps it was 4,765,000 times more deadly. I'll have some more coffee and get back to you.
:: I’d prefer not to have it spreading uncontrolled through the population. ::
So...everyone BUT you is contagious?
I am curious to see the percentages of WuhanVirus deaths compared between The Stay-At-Homes vs Essentials (The ones who have had to continue working through all of this)
IIRC, you have been corrected on this before. That fatality rate is simply spurious since it apparently overall only those who are sick and deemed worthy to be tested are tested , thus these are most likely to die. In contrast, extensive random testing shows the infection % to be much higher in relation to population and deaths, while the rate of flu infections as a % of population is higher than for Covid.
I have the CDC morality rates for the flu per state for 2018 (13 states above 17 per 100,000 total population) and for Covid here (only one state above 17 per 100,000 people, as of April 9), and according to estimates, between 61,000 to 80,000 Americans died during the 2017-2018 season, the latter being the highest death toll in 40 years. During that 2017-2018 season, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was at or above the epidemic threshold for 16 consecutive weeks. Nationally, mortality attributed to P&I exceeded 10.0% for four consecutive weeks, peaking at 10.8% during the week ending January 20, 2018, (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm) with older Americans dying at a rate of 169 Americans a day, or seven people per hour. (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/older-flu-deaths-rising.html
It is estimated that about 80% of those infected with Covid-19 experience a mild case [WHO said the like] – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment. Meanwhile a study in Iceland reports that as of April 11, the country has “tested 10% of its population for coronavirus - a figure far higher than anywhere else in the world -” [and with fatality rate of about 0.4%] and that “about half of its citizenry at any given time who have coronavirus but don't know it, will be asymptomatic” (show no symptoms), which is “a large percentage many experts studying the virus have suspected, but have had little firm data to corroborate.”
Another report is that those who are most vulnerable to death from Covid-19 are the aged with certain other heath conditions, thus 80 percent of US coronavirus deaths are people 65 and older. Then again, America murders over 2,000 of the most vulnerable souls a day (2017: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states).
“this is 66 times more deadly.”
That’s so funny. Drop your TV remote and slowly step away from CNN.
“I’d prefer not to have it spreading uncontrolled through the population.”
Truth is, when the forced unconstitutional government imprisonment of Americans is lifted, the WuFlu definitely WILL spread through the population. There’s no way around that. It’s the price we pay for liberty. Besides, as we will have had to be hot-house tomatoes for months, our immunity will be even less than it was before. It WILL be worse before it gets better.
“until 1 of the 15 people who contracts Covid-19 and dies is someone they know, maybe even a family member.”
Because none of us knows anyone who has ever died from anything except COVID in our lifetime. People die. I personally have attended funerals pre-WuFlu. (Shocking, I know.) Heart attacks. Old age. Pneumonia. Diabetes. Accidents.
The death rate is NOT 6.66%..........(1 in 15)........where did you get that number?
Actual death rate may be less than .7% because we have no idea how many have had the virus with little or no effect. New antibody tests will help us know that figure, but it will take tens of thousands of them and that will be a while.
Also, Covid-19 death numbers are being fudged on the high side by those who have a political reason for wanting higher numbers and actual deaths from the virus are probably a lot less than what we are told, and a lot more from other morbidity factors like obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc.
...death rate is rapidly approaching 7%.... what ??? which screaming liberal hack did you suck that out of?
its morons like YOU that cause panic, so just go hide in your hole useful idiot.
I hear it is 666 times more deadly. It was on the interwebs, so it must be true.
"Won't take it seriously?" Is it possible for you to hold two ideas in your head at the same time?
I think I understand your concern, but you sure as 'heck' don't understand mine.
Up to 200k gone from Covid. ***OR*** the second Great Depression.
The Spanish Flu didn't really have a lasting effect on the US. The Great Depression did. Think about the changes in government and society between 1930 and 1940. ***OR*** maybe you are ignorant of that.
I'm amazed and disgusted at the same time of the economic ignorance displayed by so-called conservatives of economics and the moral component of free enterprise. This economic engine is taken for granted, the result just assumed...by leftys, I used to think. It appears the same is true of so-called conservatives.
You will not recognize the world you find yourself living in. I guess some people can on ly learn lessons the hard way. Unfortunately, the rest of us are along for the ride.
We've just spent 2+ trillion on the initial installment of financial aid, and besides the the $$$ it cost some goodies for Pelosi. The left is already planning for the next installment, along with all they things they'll demand.
So to the 10 trillion or so that will be spent and added to the debt (before this is over) you can add all the things the Left will demand to get the package through the House...having to do with mandatory sick and family leave, benefits and status for illegals, and whatever of AOC's agenda they can push. Helluva price.