[GulfMan]

Basically there’s no one alive that’s been through a pandemic, everyone is scared. What is going on is not a conspiracy it’s human nature. That’s it.

[reasonisfaith]

How could you possibly know there’s no conspiracy?

In politics, conspiracies are more common than not. And by the way, conspiracies are a common feature of human nature.

[cuban leaf]

Basically there’s no one alive that’s been through a pandemic, everyone is scared. What is going on is not a conspiracy it’s human nature. That’s it.

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But not everyone is scared. I’m not the least bit concerned. Of course, it’s in my blood - I’ve never had a flu shot.

[oldplayer]

-—”Basically there’s no one alive that’s been through a pandemic. . . “-—

Really, wasn’t polio in the 50’s a pandemic? Wasn’t the Asian Flu in the ‘56 and ‘57 a pandemic. Lot’s of Freepers around here were around then, too.

I’d sure rather get this Wuhan stuff than polio, yet we all went about our business when polio was rampant.

[luv2ski]

Basically there’s no one alive that’s been through a pandemic, everyone is scared. What is going on is not a conspiracy it’s human nature. That’s it.

Actually that is not true. The Swine Flu in 2009 (H1N1) was determined to be a pandemic. 60 million Americans were infected, 300,000 hospitalized and 15,000 died.

Also, since a lot of numbers are being thrown around, from the CDC site this morning: CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.