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To: bboop
"CDC: regular flu 2019-2020: 56,000 deaths US; 250K in hospital. 2018-2019: 61,000 deaths (flu AND flu-related). CoronaVirus to date, worldwide - 3000 deaths, 80,000 hospitalized."

You need to explain how you think comparing this to flu stats somehow means something.

25 posted on 02/26/2020 12:37:49 PM PST by mlo
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To: mlo

My take on the comparison is that with 50k-60k Americans dying each year of flu, all of us go about our daily lives with no real concern, even to the point of not getting a flu shot.

If the virus ends up killing 100,000 Americans, OK, we maybe should have taken it more seriously from day 1, but there’s no point in crying chicken little at this point. What would we each have done differently even if that’s the case?

What’s Hillary’s famous line?


41 posted on 02/26/2020 12:58:57 PM PST by sanjuanbob (Yes, I CAN take a joke /s)
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