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LIVE FROM HONG KONG: To Date in 2020, Influenza (the Flu) Accounts for More Than 50 Times the Number of Deaths as the Coronavirus in Hong Kong
GP ^ | 29 Feb 2020 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 02/29/2020 8:15:18 AM PST by datura

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I posted this over at Reddit, with predictable results - the Sanders bots are all against it. It doesn’t fit their agenda.

I know this disease is horrible if you catch it, and I pray the number of cases remains small (it will), and that those who do catch it recover.

The US is not China or Europe. Six months from now we will look at the numbers and investigate who started this bullshit. Soros, the Chinese, or the Deep State? Wait, they are all the same.

1 posted on 02/29/2020 8:15:18 AM PST by datura
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To: datura

Last year in the US 80,000 died of the flu.


2 posted on 02/29/2020 8:16:52 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: datura

The hype over this is ridiculous!
Sucks if you get it but it sucks to be hit by lightning too!


3 posted on 02/29/2020 8:17:11 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: datura

A virus is a virus is a virus. Do what you should have been doing right along. Wash your hands. Wipe your counters with a disinfectant. And if you’re sick...stay home.


4 posted on 02/29/2020 8:17:15 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: datura

I think the people of China are more vulnerable because of a couple of decades of exposure to air pollution from coal-fired power plants and the fact many Chinese are notorious heavy smokers of cigarettes.


5 posted on 02/29/2020 8:22:00 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Very true. Most people there have compromised lungs from those things, plus bad hygiene habits. No one covers their mouth when they cough or sneeze there - helping spread any virus.


6 posted on 02/29/2020 8:26:41 AM PST by datura
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In before It's just the flu bro.

In before getting again causes a heart attack.

In before the R0 numbers that never came true.

In before "the exponential" spreadsheet posting.

7 posted on 02/29/2020 8:28:37 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (NOT tired of winning.)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

What is the R0 number by the way?


8 posted on 02/29/2020 8:29:20 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: RayChuang88

Eating (sick)dogs and bats doesn’t help.


9 posted on 02/29/2020 8:29:42 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: RayChuang88

[I think the people of China are more vulnerable because of a couple of decades of exposure to air pollution from coal-fired power plants and the fact many Chinese are notorious heavy smokers of cigarettes.]


I gotta wonder if the communal dining using chopsticks without intermediate utensils like serving spoons or ladles is a factor. I’ve seen a Chinese acquaintance lick morsels off his chopsticks, presumably to clean them the way a cat would lick its paws. I think that’s the moral equivalent of double-dipping at a salad bar. Maybe I’m overly-sensitive, but that can’t be hygienic.


10 posted on 02/29/2020 8:32:07 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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China and their eating habits need to be quarantined from the world.


11 posted on 02/29/2020 8:33:50 AM PST by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: datura

Thanks for posting this.

Put on your flak jacket and helmet.


12 posted on 02/29/2020 8:34:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Welcome to Mass Quarantinofornia !!!.. Sanctuary State in rapid decline!!!.. Norm's Revenge)
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To: datura

As diseases go, this one is a wimp compared to other recent ones. Also consider Ebola, sars, etcc., were all news items in political election years.


13 posted on 02/29/2020 8:35:35 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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Let’s break those numbers of flu patients down between Americans and illegal aliens.


14 posted on 02/29/2020 8:36:08 AM PST by tillacum
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Great news! Homeland Virus cops are coming to lock you and your family up!

It is amazing how many so called conservatives want the Feds to take over our lives due to this so called emergency.

That type of bs is how we ended up with Homeland Security and TSA. They make air travel miserable 24/7, and probably have eliminated zero air tragedies.

If you want Homeland Virus or whatever to be able to quarantine you and your family:

You are an idiot and not a conservative.

Then, to Mass Quarantinofornias !!!.. Sanctuary States in rapid decline!!!.. Norm’s Revenge


15 posted on 02/29/2020 8:38:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Welcome to Mass Quarantinofornia !!!.. Sanctuary State in rapid decline!!!.. Norm's Revenge)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Ebola was much scarier. Your intestines liquify and you bleed to death internally


16 posted on 02/29/2020 8:38:21 AM PST by olepap
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also SARS “recovered” patients had all sorts of problems:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mental-sars/alarming-mental-problems-seen-in-sars-survivors-idUSTRE5BD4XW20091214


17 posted on 02/29/2020 8:40:10 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: datura

“Schools were closed until the end of February in Hong Kong”

But it’s just the flu!


18 posted on 02/29/2020 8:43:26 AM PST by ScottfromNJ
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To: datura

The hysteria was here well before the mainstream jumped on the hysteria bandwagon.


19 posted on 02/29/2020 8:45:38 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I'll repeat:

I don't accept the truthfulness/accuracy of anything coming out of China (and yes,despite what some might claim,Hong Kong is *absolutely* part of China).

The only figures I'd be inclined to believe are those coming from Japan,South Korea,the EU countries and the United States.

20 posted on 02/29/2020 8:46:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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