[DoodleBob]

Going further, for the 2017-2018 flu season, the CDC estimated that 45MM people got the flu ("Symptomatic Illnesses"), 21MM sought treatment, 810k were hospitalized, and 61k died.

Per this document, America had 36MM admissions to hospitals last year and has 924k beds.

We survived.

As for where the fatality rate will go, here is a plot of that rate for SARS (click here for an explanation of the different patterns) :

Now, should we be protecting our borders, limiting entry from hot spots, and bolster our supplies etc? Of course. It's not like bad things can't happen here.

But the hysteria commingled with the smug, Democrat-like smarter-than-thou/you're-a-dumbass-unless-you're-as-willing-I-am-to-bow-before-experts attitude on display, is stunning. It is enough to turn off rational people, and lead them to do their own homework and ignore these climate-change philosophical cousins.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the resource and comments.

We’re all trying to make sense of this the best we can.

I try to give out information that may be more comforting, but it’s not my intention to provide information that may be misleading to attain that goal.

I appreciate your post.

[PA Engineer]

But the hysteria commingled with the smug, Democrat-like smarter-than-thou/you're-a-dumbass-unless-you're-as-willing-I-am-to-bow-before-experts attitude on display, is stunning. It is enough to turn off rational people, and lead them to do their own homework and ignore these climate-change philosophical cousins.

You have nothing to worry about. You have already proven yourself to be a non-rational and seminar poster on other threads. Why do you keep posting the identical crap on every thread?

It has been some time since I have seen someone as ignorant as you on FR.

In the old days you would have been cleansed by heavenly ozone.

[lepton]

Going further, for the 2017-2018 flu season, the CDC estimated that 45MM people got the flu (”Symptomatic Illnesses”), 21MM sought treatment, 810k were hospitalized, and 61k died.

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So if we assume the sick here is the number who have sought treatment, that’d be 5 million hospitalized in ICUs instead of 810k, and some 375k dead with the same portion dead to hospitalized while dismissing those hospitalized but not in ICU.