Posted on 03/20/2020 12:26:29 PM PDT by horsappl
Yep, Obama did little. Trump is going full on communism, allowing governors to close businesses, put in place curfews, restricting travel, closing beaches, even hurting old people by restricting how many employees nursing and assisted care facilities can on staff.
It ain’t a “lockdown”, it is martial law. Martial law by any other name.
Which flu? What the CDC tracks as seasonal flu which includes several strains. It has a case mortality rate of 0.1%.
The Case mortality rate is deaths/confirmed cases. It doesn’t include people who don’t get sick enough to get tested, but that’s true of both CV and the flu.
It’s too early in the US to really say. But currently it stands at 250 deaths/ 19285 confirmed cases = 1.3%. We are behind the curve on testing, And if we were doing more testing, we might have identified more cases that would drive that rate down. On the other hand, if you could follow just those 19285 cases, then 1.3% represents a floor, as more people in that group will die. Only 147 people have recovered in the us. So 0.7% have recovered. That means 98% of those 19,285 are still sick.
As far as a population mortality rate, which is deaths/population, CV is lower than the Flu. But that’s only because CV is not yet as widely spread as the Flu. And there is every indication this spreads as easily as the flu. And once it’s wide spread we will see the population mortality rate for CV exceed Flu.
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