CDC: regular flu 2019-2020: 56,000 deaths US; 250K in hospital. 2018-2019: 61,000 deaths (flu AND flu-related). CoronaVirus to date, worldwide - 3000 deaths, 80,000 hospitalized.
the sky is NOT falling. It’s just their latest scare-tactics to bring down the President.
or get additional funding.
Yeah, I’m sure China is destroying their economy and putting their regime at risk for “get Trump.” I’m sure they are burning bodies non stop (sulfur fumes) and there are only around 3k dead.
“ CoronaVirus to date, worldwide - 3000 deaths, 80,000 hospitalized.
No one knows if the China numbers are accurate.
“ It’s just their latest scare-tactics to bring down the President.
It can be serious *and* it can be used to hurt the POTUS.
Hang in there one second, going to take my cold medicine
It’s not the flu. The flu is endemic, worldwide, and the Wuhanic Plague is not endemic worldwide, so comparing them in the way you nothing-burger guys do is deceitful.
Perhaps conspiracy theories that this is some plot to take out the President is disinformation intended to make us under respond to this problem. It’s just as valid a theory with just as much evidence to support it.
I am really curious how the collapse of an economy that the President was trying to disentangle us from isn’t going to ultimately bolster the President. “See, I told you we were too dependent on the Chinese Communists” is a very winning argument. It goes well with “Bernie wants to turn us into Communist China - his own guys even say so - and look what happened to them!”
So stop being silly about some nefarious Deep State plot to overthrow Trump by releasing a bioweapon in China.
You need to explain how you think comparing this to flu stats somehow means something.
The regular flu has a mortality rate of 0.1% meaning those that get it have a very low probability of death.
This flu has a much higher mortality rate which seems to be between 2 and 3%. For example AIDS/HIV has a mortality rate of 1.7%. SARS is 9.6% and MERS is 34%. Ebola is 50%.
Problem is this Corona version of the flu looks like it’s easily transmitted even before symptomatic. Hard to control the spread so it hits a larger population quickly. Therefore it can overwhelm the ability to treat it and control the spread. It’s a case for closed borders and travel restrictions internally.
Conflating this new virus with the flu is abject ignorance.
Or, more likely, intentional ignorance. RThe original meaning of the word.
“It’s just their latest scare-tactics to bring down the President.”
So China, Italy, South Korea and now Israel are all willing to sabotage their own economies in an attempt to remove President Trump?
That is not a reasonable assertion.