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The flu kills hundreds of thousands every year and nobody bats and eyelash. Coronavirus kills 40 and everyone loses their mind.
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Posted on 03/15/2020 5:18:01 AM PDT by grundle


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To: grundle

HOAX!!!!!!


21 posted on 03/15/2020 5:39:27 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Candor7

Another dumb cop show using a gun as a hammer.


22 posted on 03/15/2020 5:39:35 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: grundle

Swine flu killed 3000 in the first 80 days , same rate and number for the Wuhan Corona flu now. Later it was found the percent of infection to death was less than 1 percent, and swine flu went on to kill 12,00 in the USA in the first year , and half million people world wide... if people are freaking this much out about 40 wait till this year progresses, !

But though the rate of the ACTUAL deaths per day was the same for Swine as it is now for Wuhan Corona and Swine turned out less than one percent fatal per infection after testing large numbers of people was done to find out the real number , the 12,000 deaths in USA, meant 1 in 30,000 chance of dying overall out of a US population of 3 million and nobody hoarded toilet paper and oat milk unlike the hysteria we have now,,


23 posted on 03/15/2020 5:39:58 AM PDT by seastay
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To: Vaquero

Come and get some, LOL.


24 posted on 03/15/2020 5:41:36 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: HighSierra5
The powers that be are licking their chops at the opportunities that are being created to further the decay of our liberties

Oh yeah. Starting with self isolation, curfews and talk of wanting the government (spit) to step in and limit what, as an American, we can buy at the stores.

Next it will be like the scenes from the Chicom, where people were barred into their residence.

This whole charade is nothing more than that, a charade.

25 posted on 03/15/2020 5:42:37 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: grundle

Leading Causes of Death

Data are for the U.S.
Number of deaths for leading causes of death

Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173

Source: Deaths: Leading Causes for 2017

And how many Corona virus deaths so far?


26 posted on 03/15/2020 5:45:18 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: grundle

REad this , DO NOT FAIL to read it. This article shows EVRYONE of us what we have to do to flatten the exponential growth of this virus.

Now get with it ,GET on board:

“Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Politicians, Community Leaders and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?”

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca


27 posted on 03/15/2020 5:45:43 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: FreedomPoster

Newt says

“ As I indicated earlier, if America begins to have the Italian scale of deaths, we would be losing 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 Americans. If it really got out of control, the rates could go higher.”

Swine flu killed 12,000 in the first year USA , as a historian he should have included this fact... i like and respect Newt however


28 posted on 03/15/2020 5:48:30 AM PDT by seastay
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To: eartick

We’re gonna know in a couple of weeks to a month if this is overblown. If it lives up to the advertisement then oh well. But if it doesn’t your going to see a lot of finger pointing. And maybe worse. When I’m driving around everything seems normal. For now.


29 posted on 03/15/2020 5:48:55 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: grundle

The only thing we should worry about is how many are likely to die. That is not going to be known until it runs its course.This year’s flu season has just about ended, and they aren’t really sure how many will have died, but it is in the 10’s of thousands. There are two main kinds, one of which is our old friend H1N1, which they estimate hits 58% of the people who get the flu each year. If that’s true, and it is also and estimate, then it kills 10-15,000 each year. This 19 is coming on the heels of the regular flu so 2020 will be a high overall death rate, but whether 19 will be a lot worse we won’t know until it ends.

Next year there will be a vaccine and test kits and it will go into the whole flu statistic where it probably will be ignored.


30 posted on 03/15/2020 5:51:37 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: HighSierra5

Keep your powder dry and a light coat of oil on Ol Betsy.


31 posted on 03/15/2020 5:56:06 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: grundle
It's a half full or half empty situation.

Say you perfect the a flu-like virus to kill off a specific target population. The virus comes out and everyone panics then hides. Your virus isn't having the desired effect and the media is getting more eyeballs than they've had any time in the past decade spreading fear, uncertainty, doubt, best of all, panic over toilet paper and depends.

Not good for your virus reaching full potential, not good at all.

Might be time to tell everyone it's just the flu and call em' silly for being in a panic. That'd get em' back out to the flea markets, sports events, bars, and movie theaters, where your pride and joy virus could really live up to it's potential.

So, which best serves the puppeteers?

Panic or "It's just the flu"?

32 posted on 03/15/2020 5:58:03 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: 9YearLurker
More people in the US died from obama’s laziness during the Swine flu than have died to date IN THE WORLD from the Wuhan Red Death. The leftist world media is a best in class hype machine.

33 posted on 03/15/2020 5:59:02 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: HighSierra5

The finger pointing won’t be at the media but at the President.


34 posted on 03/15/2020 5:59:35 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: grundle

Published in 1841.....by Charles MacKay

“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness
of the Crowds”


35 posted on 03/15/2020 6:01:23 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: HighSierra5

“everything seems normal. For now.”

Same here...’cept I can’t find any dadgumed toilet paper!!


36 posted on 03/15/2020 6:01:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: grundle
The headline in my local Gannett rag this morning - "Numbers May Overwhelm."
There are about 2700 cases in the entire US.
Talk about scare mongering.
37 posted on 03/15/2020 6:07:38 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: grundle

Still, just for fun, President Trump should announce he’s cancelling the next election. You want to see lost minds? That would do it.


38 posted on 03/15/2020 6:07:41 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: grundle
Because the demand for respirators and intensive care has been beyond any previous planning, doctors have been forced into the kind of triage thinking developed for intense battlefield casualty situations. There are reports that emergency room doctors are allotting respirators to those with higher life expectancy due to the limited equipment in the hardest hit areas of the province. If you are older or have other illnesses, you may simply not be eligible for treatment.

That's the key right there. Deciding who is to live and who is to die. Happens in all triage on the battle field or local tragedies but if it's happening nationwide, expect to see local ABC/CBS/NBC nightly news interviewing the families of those who died because they didn't meet the criteria. And it's all going to be Trump's fault.

39 posted on 03/15/2020 6:07:53 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: RoosterRedux

And that’s it, the predictions are apocalyptic and it seems they know little about the virus itself, and we know nothing. We are being told this is just the beginning and then there is Italy. My husband is a heart transplant, in his early 70s and we are concerned. He did play golf Friday, said he was done with the worry.


40 posted on 03/15/2020 6:07:58 AM PDT by Toespi
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