Posted on 03/15/2020 5:18:01 AM PDT by grundle
And they would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
The 10x more deadly than the flu...fake news and bald face lie. Think for yourself and read the actual facts. Please stop posting
Because no one prepped for three years to prevent Y2K. It may not have been anything to YOU, but talk to anyone in IT from 1997 to 1999 and ask them. They might have a little bit of a different opinion.
Swine flu killed 3000 in the first 80 days
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Wuhan China alone likely has had 25,000 dead since mid-November and over 1,000,000 cases - many of the dead were in their 30-40s. per personal communications from China
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The fatality rate is 2% in the US, higher overseas.
You realize what H1N1 is don’t you? It is the Spanish Flu.
This stuff keeps coming around. No vaccines and moderate herd immunity.
Plus, this is not influenza, but a coronavirus. They are two types.
I am not making any predictions, one way or the other. But you are using terms that are inaccurate, and citing examples without context.
I get it. If the Wuhan Plague passes over America, we can thank preparation.
If I understand your argument you believe the “panic” is media driven and the media will do whatever it can to keep that “panic” alive.
It’s good for business.
And they must be doing this in Italy and France and Germany as well (to give a few examples). Those countries are experiencing very high infection growth rates and the body counts are mounting.
So that must be good for the media panic business in Europe as well.
What nonsense. This virus is spreading like wildfire and it is the natural human instinct for survival that is driving this “panic”.
Well said. All true.
Not a comment on the virus at all.
You are either going to take precautions or not. Nothing personal, but I don’t care what you do.
My point is that folks dismiss Y2K as “nothing.” It was a lot more than nothing. And folks should be careful about sounding ignorant.
Yup.
2018-2019 flu season: 35,000 Americans killed.
2019-2020 flu season: 12,000 to date, on pace for 20,000 (CDC)
Not a peep out of CNNMSNBCABCCBSCNBCFNC.
Eight thousand is low. Remember, underlying issues often affect how the medical cartel lists causes.
https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year
The leftists are about as extreme and ridiculous—and sometimes dangerous—as one can imagine and describe.
But as I understand it there is no actual swine flu test that is/was done. Instead if you show signs in routine medical tests of fighting something flu-like off they can chalk it up to swine flu—as they apparently did for everyone possible back in 2009.
So likely another hoax disease in terms of US threat that they actually had to stop testing for because they weren’t finding it.
That again is my understanding. Happy to be corrected if wrong.
That’s a great book! Still in print...worth reading. There is nothing new under the sun.
Italy is a true disaster, but, by their own hand.
I do feel compassion for the citizens and hope they will smarten up on choosing their leadership.
Their healthcare system is a wreck. They have Berniecare. They would be overwhelmed by an acne outbreak.
To prove that they are not evil xenophobes like President Trump, Italy chose to keep its borders wide open, to welcome visitors from China and gawd knows where else.
But, at least they’re not xenophobes.
X10 the mortality rate of the flu?
WTAF are you talking about? The seasonal flu killed 35,000 people during the 2018-2019 season, in America alone (CDC).
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