Posted on 04/12/2020 12:59:10 PM PDT by NobleFree
In the previous three years, the number of confirmed flu cases 8 weeks after the peak was 18%, 17%, and 7.4% of the peak value.
This year, with stay-at-home and social distancing, the figure is 0.85%.
Everything is Corvid-19.
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Start with this one then do your own internet search......
Flu Caused 80,000 Deaths in US Last Year
No internet search will tell me your point. Will yiou?
The point is that we had 80,000 deaths from the flu YET not a peep, not a daily media count every damn day, not a daily media case count every damn day, NO hysteria, NO fear mongering NOTHING!! The models done for this virus were done WITH mitigation in place Fauci said at the podium 6 days ago WITH mitigation there would be 100,000 - 200,000 deaths YET again they were wrong BUT they succeeded in DESTROYING a great economy in an election year THAT IS THE POINT!!!
Gladly! We're not even going to come close to the 2017-18 epidemic figures that I posted.
Want some more Pandemic Fanboy? All your so called experts predicting doom and gloom are constantly citing the 2009 Swine flu epidemic and comparing it to today's 19 while totally ignoring the 2017-18 epidemic which was five times worse. Why is that?
Anything else you would like to know?
Neither is the 2019-20 flu - and its sharp dropoff since peak as compared to previous years is consistent with having been caused by stay-at-home and social distancing - which is why comparing COVID-19 numbers to previous years' flu numbers (as many do here and elsewhere in conservative media) is apples to oranges.
Knowing that, then why did you call me out????? You trying to imply I was lying?
Asking you what your point is, is "calling you out"?
Lord loves a workin’ man; don’t trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
And the various flus had plenty of time to run around before the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. After the outbreak, physical distancing stopped the flus from further spreading in the spring half of the flu season.
No, we shouldn’t shut down the country and haven’t done so except in extreme areas of Democrat influence and disease. I don’t care about those places.
Manufacturing is still operating, where supplies from China for manufacturing have resumed or were unneeded. Necessary services are running, although lazy loiterers blocking the way of others should be banned. As for entertainment, tourism and convenience parasites, I don’t care about those, either.
There are plenty of productive things to do and plenty of outdoor recreation outside of the socialist, no-go zones of foreign import interests.
Right - which is why comparing COVID-19 numbers to previous years' flu numbers (as many do here and elsewhere in conservative media) is apples to oranges.
The comparison is generally used to gain some perspective...overall deaths being one of the pieces of data to show that panic creates chaos and there was an overabundance of panic with COVID...for what we did with it, we should be shutting down every year until we reach the stone age.
The comparison is generally used to gain some perspective
It's a false perspective inasmuch as it implicitly assumes that COVID-19 cases and deaths would have been little different in the absence of the measures that have been taken.
So, you implicitly deny that there would have been no difference - just as false as your statement.
The flu data I cite supports the hypothesis that there would have been a difference.
That conflicts with the statement I responded to...”It’s a false perspective inasmuch as it implicitly assumes that COVID-19 cases and deaths would have been little different in the absence of the measures that have been taken. “
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