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To: apillar
I had this same debate with Aunt over the Coronovirus, she was a near sky is falling panic about the coming apocalypse and all the precautions she was taking. I just shrugged and said I'm not worried about it and it doesn't even cross my mind, I'll take my chances, 98% survival rate, I'll roll the dice...

Well again it's not who lives and dies. But if this SARS is as bad as the last SARS strain to jump to humans it will be a 10% death rate. But even that isn't the real worry. The real worry would be that there are so many sick that the economy will slow down and make everything harder to get. That's already happened somewhat...China has basically shut down due to the virus and subsequent quarantines.

Now it could be that China is pulling a fast one. There's a virus and it's not that deadly but they did a mass quarantine and shutdown to hurt the economy of the US. That could be.

19 posted on 02/24/2020 12:51:39 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

The only people who will believe an economic downturn caused by this virus is to be blamed on Trump are the lunatics on the Left and they aren’t voting for him anyway.


41 posted on 02/24/2020 1:26:44 PM PST by billyboy15
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To: DouglasKC

>>”...but they did a mass quarantine and shutdown to hurt the economy of the US. That could be.”<<

Not likely. The damage to their own economy would be, and probably already is, tremendous. Plus a lot of Chinese companies are apparently strung out on debt already.

In fact, it’s more likely that the disease is progressing much faster in China than is being reported, but that it’s being played down so they can get people back into the factories.


56 posted on 02/24/2020 2:59:34 PM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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