Posted on 05/04/2020 5:16:25 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
Some people are still saying that the Wuhan Flu isn’t just the flu. It is just the flu, bro. Normally the flu causes 10s of thousands of deaths each winter. Now some Fear-mongers are saying that historically the flu deaths have been exaggerated by the CDC, which therefore makes the 60k (exaggerated, but nonetheless) of Wuhan deaths much worse than the flu. The reality is that there has always been a seasonality to deaths with over a 100k of people in the USA dying in the winter versus the summer (about 10%-15% more deaths in the winter than the summer). A large part of that is due to the flu. The excess deaths (deaths beyond the historical average) we see over the past few weeks represent a small fraction of the 100k of excess deaths that we see in the winter. Based on excess deaths one could say that this is not worse than any flu and perhaps much less than the flu.
Although it is helpful and true to equate CV with the flu or minimize it with respect to the flu, I fear that in the future that we will have created a bad litmus test. Future lawmakers will see models for future pandemics that will say that some virus is going to be much worse than the flu so NOW we can reimpose draconian lockdowns and strip our freedoms from us. Some of these politicians may concede that maybe it was too strict with the Wuhan Flu but this time it would be really justified.
Not sure how many Flubros agree with this because this is beyond the scope of the criteria to be a Flubro or Flubra but...I don’t want some far in the future virus outbreak, that might actually be worse than the flu, to ever be used to justify a lockdown of healthy free citizens. I mean even with a really bad hypothetical virus (one that, unlike CV, might actually kill little children) - the policy should never be to strip away our freedoms and force healthy people to be locked down. This notion that locking down healthy people is an acceptable public policy needs to be permanently killed.
Hmm. She looks like a Chief Petty Karen.
Walter’s t-shirt
Likely pronounced meta-LICK-a.
Say it like your from Indianar.
Have you compared MI’s doctor to NC’s doctor? Both Global Citizen Obamites? Infiltration is deep at state level too.
Dr. Joneigh Slaughter Khaldun
https://www.debeaumont.org/40-under-40/joneigh-khaldun/
https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/0,5885,7-339-73970_73993-497860—,00.html
Dr. Mandy K. Cohen
https://www.ncdhhs.gov/about/leadership/dr-mandy-k-cohen
Dr. Mandy Cohen Becomes NC DHHS Secretary
“Secretary Cohen is also an adjunct professor in health policy & management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.”
https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/dr-mandy-cohen-becomes-nc-dhhs-secretary
Husband
https://twitter.com/samuel_c_cohen?lang=en
https://curi.com/news/medicaid-managed-care-delay/
“””That’s funny!”””
I think I have a nuanced position...NEVER AGAIN.
You compared the infection/death rate for CV from the altogether hottest hot spot in the US, NYC, with the nationwide infection/death rate for the flu for the entire US.
Am I wrong?
We can reasonably infer that the subway is the vector because of the excess number of deaths in NYC, NJ, Connecticut.
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