Posted on 03/12/2020 5:13:00 AM PDT by McGruff
Most people are immune to the circulating strains of influenza, limiting the number of people who are even susceptible to catching the disease. Thus, a few million get sick and deaths are limited to tens of thousands.
No one is immune to the new corona virus, meaning that it has the potential to sweep through and infect tens to hundreds of millions. With the current mortality rate of about 3.7%, this would cause millions to tens of millions of deaths.
Influenza is highly contagious and manages to infect millions despite the public health efforts to contain it and educate the public on infection control measures. The novel corona virus spreads the same way as the flu, since it is also a respiratory virus that infects the upper respiratory tract.
It is to prevent the scenario where millions of people become sick and die that the government is taking such extreme measures to stop it from spreading. It is actually a good thing that people are taking the warnings seriously and taking steps to protect themselves. They decrease their chances of contracting Covid-19 and help to form a barrier that will limit the pandemic.
..the current generation could not handle what my grandparents saw in 1918—whole families dead from influenza...
Pass this idea around and watch the MSM change its tune about the Wuhan Flu.
Hehehe
None of what you say matters because all the pearl clutchers are convinced we are all gonna DIE from this bad boy!!
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Exactly...their script is rehearsed we..in harmonious discontent.
It doesn’t matter what he says, because this bad boy is IN ADDITION to all that other stuff he listed.
You understand? On top of all that other stuff, now we got this stuff.
You think people are afraid of being killed by a Chinese bio-weapon?
Well, you’re right, they are.
That’s exactly what he should do, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it happens.
Can we say that part of the Wuhan virus’s effect will be to “steal” some deaths from Influenza?
In other words, a certain percentage of the population is vulnerable to flu-like viruses.
Is this logical?
55 is the new 65
So you think this is a Chinese bio weapon?
Seriously?
If a bio weapon with a kill rate of probably .3 to .5% and truth be told when all is said and done much less is the best China can do then we have nothing to fear from them.
You need a new tinfoil hat.
How many times men and women have you seen people in a restroom use the facility and walk right out without washing their hands? Filthy irresponsible pigs are a large reason why these viruses and other sicknesses spread so quickly. Clean yo a##
Yes, I do.
Nothing else you said matters.
What about the 150,000,000 that Creepy Joe says were victims of gun violence?
1. The flu is endemic. It's here. We've come to grips with the fact we can't stop it. With a <0.1% fatality rate, society has concluded risk of battling it is worse than risk of tolerating it. We have vaccines that largely work. We can't stop it, but have figured out how to acceptably live with it.
2. COVID19 is new. Most DON'T have it, and with a wave of quarantines we have a chance of ensuring most don't get it, and that it can be eradicated. With a >1% fatality rate, everyone will likely know someone who dies from it (if it spreads as much as naysayers would let it). We have a chance at stopping it.
3. COVID19 deaths will be IN ADDITION TO flu deaths. Let's do what we can to keep those numbers down, m'kay?
4. Hospitals are ready to accept serious flu cases. Hospitals are NOT ready to accept an abnormal wave of 10x casualties on top of already-near-capacity critical-care patients.
And finally: you can over- or under-estimate the problem; which way would you rather be proven wrong?
And don't get off the couch.
The mortality rate for the flu is around 0.1%. The average mortality rate for Covid 19 is around 3.5% and in Italy it is twice as high. So Italians are around 70 times as likely to die from Covid 19 as they are from the flu.
Thanks very much for posting perspective. Why don’t the WEAPONS of Mass Hysteria don’t AMPLIFY context 24/7/365. They’re SUPER SPREADERS. Quarantine them.
I got EGADS (Egregious General Anxiety Disorder Syndrome) in kindergarten. One of my classmates said something mean to me. There’s no cure. I’ve had it my whole life.
For any event THINK FAST (Food, Ammo, Shelter (as remote as possible)) Today.
Luckily I’ve dealt with it most of my life...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM
Thanks, Pharrell
Actually yes. Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It. Greatgameindia.com ( a indian policy wonk website) has been tracing this from last year when no one heard of the Corona virus. It appears that samples were stolen from a lvl-4 National Micobiology Lab in Winnapeg Canada by a Chinese nationalist, who spent a few weeks vacatioing in Hunan. This information is way too detailed to be seen as BS. The Chi-coms are now working on a dis information campaign to blame the US for the virus. Canada btw has been investigation all this, but wont release its findings to the public. A
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