[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Blows my mind that so far this year over 20,000 have died of the flu and YET there has been NO DAILY reporting of each and every death!! People would be STUNNED to see how many children have died of the flu!!!

[calenel]

“People would be STUNNED to see how many children have died of the flu!!!”

About 150. While every death is a tragedy, and kids’ deaths even more so, children dying from the flu is an overstated statistic. One kid dies and it’s bigger news than 100 old geezers.

Everybody has been exposed to the flu, multiple times every season. Every exposure to CV is a new one. There is no herd immunity, no vaccine. Keeping the number of sick to a manageable level is critical or we go the way of Italy and Wuhan.

[BobL]

“Blows my mind that so far this year over 20,000 have died of the flu and YET there has been NO DAILY reporting of each and every death!! People would be STUNNED to see how many children have died of the flu!!!”

An interesting fact is that the Korean War never actually ended, now nearly 70 years ago. There was just an armistice...and that is what remains today.

[blueplum]

I understand what you’re saying. But you’re comparing accepted knowns with an unknown novel virus.

Like our seniors, -Most- children/infants that die from pneumonia are immunocompromised. For seniors, flu/pneumonia is an expected end-of-life event, right up there with fatal strokes and heart attacks. Children are generally: unhealthy from birth, handicapped, chronic conditions, metabolic, neurologic, and pulmonary/heart disorders, or abused and/or malnourished (system stressed). Very high risk are American Indian, American Eskimo and American blacks (sickle cell). Comparatively few otherwise healthy children die from flu or pneumonia.

Because Americans know this, they don’t tend to freak out over flu/pneumonia deaths. Even those inflated by an endemic H1N1. But a novel virus is an unknown. And a new novel virus, that’s still in diapers mutation wise, is a huge unknown because nobody knows what it will grow up to be - H1N1 level, cold level, or Andromeda Strain level? And that is why we need to eradicate it as quickly and as far-reaching as possible.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/children.htm#highrisk

[ETCM]

Lets add some perspective on "how it could be". Over the past seven days in Italy, 1019 people have died of COVID-19. That's an average of 145/day, but it's getting worse. In the larger US population, that would equate to 800 people dying every day and climbing. Is 800 a day OK as long as they are "old"? Every single country with significant infections is fighting like crazy to control it. How can you sit back and think "everyone else is crazy" and you are the sensible one? Nobody else is thinking straight, they should listen to Trump Girl Kit Cat! China has provided 2 examples, their initial failure in Wuhan, followed by massive efforts that succeeded. South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have showed us how to contain this virus while Europe, led by Italy, is showing us how to fail. And you want us to be like Italy?

The flu killed 8 children in the USA last week. Imagine if the 1019 who died in Italy last week (that's equivalent to 5,600 in the USA) were children, or even under 50 years old. People would be screaming for MORE action.