Posted on 02/28/2020 10:14:01 AM PST by DouglasKC
There seems to be a belief that the Corona virus is "no worse" than the flu. Or that the flu is MORE deadly. Or that the flu has killed more so therefore the corona virus is overhyped.
If you think that's true then answer this simple question:
Why have the governments of ALL countries affected taken extreme steps to stop it's spread?
Why did the US ban flights from China? Why is Italy cutting off entire towns to stop its spread? Why did Japan close all schools for a month? Why has Israel essentially shut down travel?
Understand that countries are doing things that are unprecedented in modern times to try and stop this. If it's NOT a big deal why are they essentially shutting down their economies (China, South Korea, Japan etc) to try and deal with this?
Just answer the question...WHY are government treating it LIKE it's extremely dangerous IF it's no worse than the flu?
About 20 times more deadly than flu.
Is it time to panic?
Because the media created the hysteria.
As is so often the case, FReepers are alrady ripping into each other over the Wuhan Flu.
There’s really no need to start a thread dedicated to inducing fratricide.
This
“Why did the US ban flights from China?”
When did we do that?
Answer the question.
Silly Douglas. You know the answer.
The Baghdad Bobs are in charge. The Kudlows are telling us everything is fine. Trump saying everyone that needs testing is getting testing. The CDC is working day and night on tests—they did 2(!) yesterday.
It’s just the flu...dammit.
Do I need to tag the sarcasm?
FFS, enough with the GD vanities designed to perpetuate doom and gloom.
So all the government agencies ALL over the world are ONLY going on media reports and they are all panicking?
Thank you for your simple, but accurate post.
Because we have a flu vaccine... we don’t yet have one for this strain of coronavirus. The flu is a deadly known quantity that we have lived with for centuries.
I'm looking for reasonable explanations.
Fear of the unknown = panic.
Answer the question.
I’ll answer your question with my own questions:
1) Why did the US government push the narrative that Y2K was basically going to end the Earth? Why?
2) Why did the US government tell us that the ozone would be depleted by 2000 if we didn’t ban spray cans?
3) Why did the US government tell us that heterosexual, non-drug users are at risk for AIDS?
I could go on and on. Your logic is circular: Gee, it must be a pandemic if the government treats it like a pandemic!! Here are some more questions:
1) Where are the piles of dead bodies in China and other countries?
2) If this virus was any more serious than the flu, etc., why aren’t healthy people being struck down left and right?
3) If the Democrat candidates for POTUS were that concerned, why would they be out in public shaking thousands of hands?
This sounds like that scene in the movie Marathon Man; where
actor Lawrence Olivier is a dentist, and keeps asking Dustin Hoffman’s character this one question: “Is it safe?”
Vanities are far worse than coronavirus. Please self-quarantine to protect others.
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