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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: Candor7

*Medium*? You know that’s a left wing propaganda rag, right?


61 posted on 03/15/2020 6:37:21 AM PDT by jazminerose (Why do democrats hate black people?)
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To: JeanLM

CDC estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season: 12,000, on pace for 20,000.

Keep in mind, that is in America alone.


62 posted on 03/15/2020 6:38:53 AM PDT by jazminerose (Why do democrats hate black people?)
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To: grundle

Does anyone give a rat’s ass that Americans are losing their very *livelihoods* over this crap?

Hourly employees are told to stay home; workers are being furloughed, many laid off entirely.

Are the hysterics planning to pay reparations when this blows over? And it will.


63 posted on 03/15/2020 6:41:54 AM PDT by jazminerose (Why do democrats hate black people?)
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To: jazminerose

Even broken clocks can be right twice a day. Its a good article with proper graphs and reporting, even though the general platform is leftist.

You take the good when you can get it on rare occasions.


64 posted on 03/15/2020 6:44:32 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: jazminerose

There goes the Trump economy, right on schedule for the 2020 democrat campaign.


65 posted on 03/15/2020 6:44:54 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: grundle

When I read of the ski resorts closing THAT pushed the BS meter to the peg. Wonder who these resort owners voted for. For them to so blithely shut down under these slight conditions more than just suggests to me that there is more here than meets the eye.


66 posted on 03/15/2020 6:47:21 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Vaquero

Collectvism. The internet and media has become the new God.


67 posted on 03/15/2020 6:58:48 AM PDT by Rebel Egg
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To: Vermont Lt

“You realize what H1N1 is don’t you? It is the Spanish Flu.”

Ummm, No. It’s the other way around. H1N1 is sub-type of influenza A. The extinct Spanish Flu was a strain of the H1N1 sub-type. It’s like saying “you know what a car is don’t you, it’s a Honda”.


68 posted on 03/15/2020 7:03:43 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: grundle

There is a huge difference between the typical yearly flu and this Wuhan Virus.

We have vaccines for the yearly flu bugs. If one lives in a First World place like the U.S., CA., or U.K., or Israel and they CHOOSE NOT to get vaccinated, that’s their choice, their problem.

This Wuhan Virus doesn’t have a vaccine as of yet. We have no choice. We all have to take a wait and see approach. Uncertainty.

Secondary difference, the Wuhan Virus affects older people more and seems to spread easier. Older people tend to get a yearly flu shot. But they can’t in this case.

So I’m proud of the people here with nerves of steel. I’m delighted to see many not in panic mode. But, for a moment, put yourself into the shoes of people with chronic but survivable health issues, no vaccine available, and then they go to store like normal, and it’s wiped out.

Have some sympathy. Sheeeesh. Some people are really afraid and I do think they deserve to be mocked.


69 posted on 03/15/2020 7:03:53 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: jazminerose

# Deaths/ # infected

It’s a ratio.


70 posted on 03/15/2020 7:04:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: HighSierra5

Hard to imagine what this would be like
with Clinton in the White House.


71 posted on 03/15/2020 7:08:02 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: seastay

The 2017 influenza hospitalized 959,000 and killed more than 61,000 here in the U.S.


72 posted on 03/15/2020 7:11:50 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's the China Flu and if you think you have it, take Zicam......)
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To: HighSierra5

“We’re gonna know in a couple of weeks to a month if this is overblown.”

Yup.

“If it lives up to the advertisement then oh well. But if it doesn’t your going to see a lot of finger pointing.”

Of the two outcomes, the finger pointing isn’t all that bad a way to end.

“And maybe worse. When I’m driving around everything seems normal. For now.”

Could be things will stay that way or that it’s the quiet before the storm, as it was in other places now swamped with trying to handle the ill.
Take each day as it comes, I guess.


73 posted on 03/15/2020 7:22:42 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: grundle
Do you REALLY want to know why? Go here and changes the Total Coronavirus Cases in the United States graph to logarithmic. It’s a straight line up.
74 posted on 03/15/2020 7:34:49 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: grundle

For comparison, I’d like to know:

A. how many Americans were killed by illegal aliens during the same period.

B. How many Americans died in accidental falls down their stairs during the same period.


75 posted on 03/15/2020 7:36:52 AM PDT by euram
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To: grundle

Yeah but is a perfect opportunity to wreck the economy that would have resulted in Trump and Republican landslide.


76 posted on 03/15/2020 7:38:51 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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To: all the best

Socialism...a virus far more deadly than the WuFlu.


77 posted on 03/15/2020 7:40:04 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: KevinB

Has Newt ever explained WTH he was thinking doing that photo with NAZI Pelosi?


78 posted on 03/15/2020 7:41:48 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: grundle

In the entire world from all causes 150K+ die every day and the world rolls on. Double that number are born each day as well. Just to put things in perspective.


79 posted on 03/15/2020 7:48:42 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Paladin2

How many are actually infected? You have NO idea yet you regurgitate the number published by the media.


80 posted on 03/15/2020 7:52:35 AM PDT by tatown
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