Well, perhaps it IS a bad comparison - we have 22 deaths from the corona virus, and thousands from the common flu in the same time period, despite widespread flu vaccinations.
Perhaps ABC would rather Pres. Trump compare it to malaria. That almost eradicated disease that returned bringing massive fatalities thanks to the lies of an environmentalist icon.
Per the link in the post below yours, 34 million people have gotten the flu. Not a fair comparison.
Vaccinations do not work
The vaccine industry is profit driven in their products are harmful to human beings
Exactly. This is crazy...I actually cancelled a trip to NYC (where I grew u[ and have family) not because of the dread virus but because of fear of hysterical government overreaction. I was afraid they were going to impose a quarantine, shut down public transit, etc.
Most of us have little likelihood of getting the disease and certainly even less of being seriously impacted by it. But it seems to be the moment that the media and government has been dreaming of: the NYT had a piece that urged “the iron hand” for controlling it.
That is, Chinese-style, such as welding people into their buildings. That actually did more to spread it to the healthy, since they were trapped in a building with the ill, and is one of the reasons they had a higher spike after “quarantine.”
Trump is right. It’s not that much of a threat, we’re working on treatments and vaccines, and the true problem is hysteria among the powers that be.
Some of this may be motivated by politics, and some by fear of lawsuits. However, it’s doing no good to anyone.
“....widespread flu vaccinations.”
Did anyone ask what strains were in that flu vaccination you took. I took one that had 2. The CDC this year is concerned about 4 other viruses:
A/ Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1) pdm09-like virus
A/ Singapore/INFIMH-16-0019/2016 (H3N2)-like virus
A/B/ Colorado/06/2017-like virus (B/Victoria/2/87 lineage)
A/B/ Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata/16/88 lineage)
“A” category is the most threatening of the 4. Based on the number of subtypes and strains, influenza “A” could theoretically have 198 different combinations, but only 131 have been identified. I feel better already. But when someone tells me the C-19 is both a SARS and MERS virus, making it both A & B, I wait for the another piece of the sky to hit.
These do not count the other strains that float through, only the ones the have reason to believe can be a problem. C-19 was a surprise and not expected. The flu strains were decided in February 2018 for the upcoming flu season. But don’t despair, they have no idea how many strains from the A and B category will come through so that shot might get 1 with pure luck. Especially when their estimate falls short of unidentifiable strains we are getting. They don’t have a clue.
rwood