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To: Spruce

I don’t give a crap either way. Common flu Death rate per the total infected is 0.1%. Projected infected to death rate of covid-19 is 1%. Ten times common flu. The issues are math. We don’t know how many infected by covid virus and have history with the common flu. I don’t particularly like the guy but his comparison of the numbers we have so far rung true. The CDC didn’t hit the ground running in early January, not Trumps fault.


16 posted on 03/14/2020 9:03:21 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Equine1952
The CDC didn’t hit the ground running in early January, not Trumps fault.

Pelosi's fault actually. There was this thing going on called impeachment, lest anyone forget.

18 posted on 03/14/2020 9:07:56 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Equine1952

The recovery rate from covid-19 for healthy individuals under age 65 is 99%. Nah much less onerous disease than N1H1 of 2009 season. Covid-19 is much less dangerous than plague, drug-resistant-TB, syphilis, AIDS, yellow fever, Ebola or Leprosy, all of which are alive in many places today in the world.


21 posted on 03/14/2020 9:10:54 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to interfere with corporate issues.)
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To: Equine1952

look at the world wide numbers since November. China had 4,000’deatgs this thing if it kills you would be almost like winning a death lottery. It’s been killing people In the states since shortly after it landed In china. So some of the flu deaths have the corona mixed it but it’s still a fraction of what it should be for some sort of cataclysmic pandemic. 5-6k dead since November. That’s a lot less then cheeseburgers .


26 posted on 03/14/2020 9:16:56 PM PDT by BillyCuccio (MAGA)
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To: Equine1952

...Common flu Death rate per the total infected is 0.1%. Projected infected to death rate of covid-19 is 1%. Ten times common flu. The issues are math.


Is that ‘projected’ rate of 1% from the same Dr. in Ohio that said she ‘guesstimated’ that 100,000 people in Ohio have the WuFlu, when they only have 13 cases right now. So Ohio has 33 times more cases than the entire US.

According to WorldOmeter.com, we have 2982 cases in the US with 60 deaths. That’s 0.02, much smaller than the flu rate.

And H1N1 (Swine Flu) death rate is listed as being between 1% and 4% here.

https://www.medscape.com/answers/1807048-166823/what-are-the-mortality-rates-of-h1n1-influenza-swine-flu

So were you panicking 10 years ago?

Yes, it probably will rise, but the last I heard no one under 50 who had been infected had died.


43 posted on 03/14/2020 9:44:08 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Equine1952

That’s the point isn’t it? “The CDC didn’t hit the ground running in early January”

What advise is good advise?


94 posted on 03/15/2020 5:16:12 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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