Posted on 03/11/2020 5:51:39 PM PDT by entropy12
Yes, any preventable death is bad, but I have never seen so much hype over a viral pandemic as this in my 60 years since arriving in United States.
Since it started circulating in the spring of 2009, H1N1 has infected about 100 million Americans, killing about 75,000 and sending 936,000 to the hospital, the CDC estimates. https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/11/h1n1-swine-flu-10-years-later/
It will be a long time before Covid-19 will kill 75,000 Americans, if at all. But I do not recall the hype in 2009 about H1N1. But it was Obama administration in charge, so media had no reason to freakout.
CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020, there have been : 20,000 – 52,000 flu deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
A death is a death whether it is from common Flu or covid-19. Both common flu and covid require the same precautions to minimize chance of infection. While it may be true that covid-19 is more infectious than common flu, if it kills less than 52,000 Americans this season, why does it deserve so much more hype than Flu?
Estimated Number of Deaths for the Four Major Cancers, 2019 606,880 deaths from cancer. https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2019/estimated-deaths-for-the-four-major-cancers-by-sex-and-age-group-2019.pdf
Many cancers occur due to bad behavior by people. Stastically smokers and 2nd hand smokers get at least 5 times more lung cancer than non-smokers. Obese people get more cancers than people those who are not. So where is the hype about enormous cost of treating cancer patients?
In year 2018, 39,888 people died from traffic accidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
Are any auto accdents preventable? For sure if you do not drive whendrunk or high on ganja or while texting. Why media is not hyping that aspect which major cause of auto accidents?
In year 2018, Drug overdose deaths in US were 67,367 https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
Another man-made cause of deaths. I doubt if covid will kill 67,367 Americans in one year.
At least 15,292 people were fatally shot in The United States in 2019, excluding suicides. https://www.thetrace.org/2020/01/gun-deaths-2019-increase/
Those people were shot by somebody else, and their deaths are just as final as those caused by covid-19. I can't even imagine the freakout by media if 15,292 die from covid-19 this year.
Some of these people are just plain delusional. Unbelievable the amount of evidence that they have to dismiss..including President Trump himself. They HAVE to make up the trope that Trump HAS to "go along" with the deep state on this. Right. Like Trump would do that.
You know better than Prez Trump too right?
“I have never seen so much hype over a viral pandemic as this in my 60 years since arriving in United States.”
LMFAO.
Maybe because the last comparable event was the Spanish Flu a century ago.
It may be over hyped, or it may not be.
I doubt that Italy quarantined the whole country just to make Trump look bad for example.
I will be here in 2 weeks and post me a note. You may end up pulling your head out of where the sun don’t shine.
Tom Hanks and his wife might disagree with you based on their symptoms. Sounds like a cold to me.
NBA Star Rudy Gobert tested positive for Corona....he’ll live but he’s already infected a lot of people...
Or H1N1 in 2009.
The NBA JUST suspended the entire season.
Italy and other European countries made a mistake in NOT stopping travel from China. PDJT is gifted with enormous common sense and he took that UNPRECEDENTED action very quickly, and that action has saved us the same fate as Italy.
When are you folks going to understand what’s happening right in front of your eyes?
So what?
Keep up the fight.
Yes, really.
Oh...sorry. I forgot that you prefer to keep your head in the sand.
Sounds like they suspended it but they didn’t cancel the while season yet.
Whatever. I live life, I don’t cower in fear because the media tells me too.
At least it has exposed how deep liberal stupidity truly is. The level of panic is laughable.
It’s even all over this “conservative” site.
Cancelling fans for March Madness? Stupid.
Hotels and restaurants should sue. Or staff up, gotta watch it somewhere.
Crazy.
I expect an announcement anytime now that the Tokyo Olympics will either be cancelled or moved to next year.
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