[NoLibZone]

COVID-19: Approximately 2,871 deaths reported worldwide; 0 deaths in the U.S., as of Feb. 28, 2020.

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.

[DesertRhino]

Another difference is the timing. China needed an escape hatch from the Hong Kong protests and a way to make sure they didn’t spread to other cities.

They went full retard authoritarian and capitalized on it when a timely flu or cold broke out in Wuhan.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Last year’s flu was the closest one that came to killing me, I think. But after a day or so that didn’t seem to bad. Sleep was the only relief I had for the next 2 days.

[Jane Long]

Another difference...the common flu cannot be spread via droplets entering the eye membrane.

[11th_VA]

The biggest difference is one is an Upper Respiratory disease, the other is a lower respiratory disease - which makes one more lethal than the other.

[yesthatjallen]

WHO Recommendations for Prevention:

Wash your hands frequently

Maintain social distancing

Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth

Practice respiratory hygiene

If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seek medical care early

Stay informed and follow advice given by your healthcare provider

WHO: Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus

WHO: What can people do to protect themselves and others from getting the new coronavirus? - Feb 5, 2020 (2 mins)

[FreedomNotSafety]

Don’t confuse the Chicken Freepers with facts. You may cause them to start hanging in the fact free world of the prog websites. They are emotionally kindred spirits.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

When they get a handle on a vaccine will it be included in a flu shot or will it require a separate shot?

[DouglasKC]

If the flu is worse then how come all governments on earth (50 something at last count) have instituted dramatic quarantines, blocked off armed cities with armed guards, banned travel to affected areas, banned travel to and from areas where it is present and in general have done everything humanly possible to keep the virus out of their countries?

They don't do this for the flu. Why for this virus?

[DannyTN]

This is ridiculous.

• The flu kills 0.1% of cases. CV kills 2%-10% of cases. 20 to 100 times more.
• CV might only kill 1% if you have access to the equipment needed. But if the hospital gets overwhelmed, then you'll be dealing with this at home and the fatality rate will soar.
• CV killed over 10% of the first 91 cases in China. No one believes China is counting all the cases or even all the deaths, but they are still reporting a 3.6% fatality rate.
• Outside of China things look a little better, but the hospitals aren't overwhelmed yet. Italy is reporting 2.3% have died. 2 of France's 57 have died, that's 3.5%.
• None of the 64 in the US have died, but only 6 have recovered so far. I hope they all recover. But overwhelm the Hospitals and you'll see that rate go up.
• The airborne transmission which they mentioned but didn't elaborate on is a big deal. It make this much easier to transmit.
• We've had the flu before and we have flu vaccines, so a good portion of our population has some immunity which helps limit the transmission and not everybody gets it each year. We don[t have CV vaccines, and none of us have had this, so there is no partial immunity to help slow down the spread.
• CV puts 15-20% of it's victims in serious or critical condition. (It's the flip side of "don't worry about it, for 80% of people it's just a bad cold") Flu puts about 1.5% in serious or critical condition.

Those are big differences, completely ignored by the author.

I'm not saying panic. But I am saying encourage our government to continue to take all the steps necessary to slow down the spread and protect us. Including additional travel bans, increased testing, quarantining, contact tracking and fast tracking medicines and vaccines.

[tinyowl]

Also, if you're not really sick, the length of time 'I have the flu' buys you is probably a day to a few days off work - maybe a week, whereas if you really are so hungover or in jail that you need a couple weeks to return to work, then you'll be supported and even encouraged to stay out for that period.

It is an ill wind that blows no man good, and this is one of the benefits of Covid -> it seems to fill in a much needed gap in the 'excusable time lengths for a claimed sickness.'

But if you need like 6 months, then that's not going to be good enough. You'll want to say 'I fell off a roof' or something, unless you're going to go the 'I was re-infected' route, but we don't even know if that happens, and certainly it's probably a stretch to say 'I got re-infected' for the 12 or so times you'd need that to happen to cover 6 months.

The main thing is, if you need to lie to get out of work, choose an illness that matches the time frame that fits your needs. And as I said, Covid does fill in what for many has been a much needed and yet missing timeframe.

[datura]

As soon as there is a vaccine for the WuFlu it will be forgotten in the US, and the globalists will need some new crisis.

[NoLibZone]

The outbreak teaches how important keeping the Government out of health care is.

Watch how may deaths occur here vs in nations with government run health care.

[RaceBannon]

what is the rate of infection of the flu vs covid-19?

the only important number here to me, right away, to ask them...

[calenel]

Flu is endemic, with a pool of hosts to carry it from year to year.

Wuhanic virus is not, and we should do our best to keep it that way.

And since we have not tested more than 500 people in the US, we don’t actually know if any of those pneumonia deaths that tested negative for the flu were Wuhanic virus or not.

Trump acted early enough to slow down the virus in the USA. Earlier than any other world leader. The Dems bashed him for it, now they say it wasn’t enough. Downplaying this before we have actual testing going on and some real stats only helps the Dems. If the tests say there are no cases - “Yay! Trump saved us again!” If there are cases, “See what Democrat obstruction and open border policies has done?” But doing nothing is an invitation to disaster if this thing gets going in the USA. Bernie will ride that right to the White House.

[Mount Athos]

Isn’t it amazing how this article and none of the comments on this thread address the central issue of virus mutation?

A similar coronavirus in 2002 in southern China mutated, becoming more deadly but also more difficult to transmit.
So it petered out. It could have mutated differently.

Why are people making the assumption it won’t mutate?

OK, the big possibility is that it will simply peter out and not amount to anything special. But there is that rare chance it will mutate into something bad.

So it’s wrong to think it will likely tens of millions, and wrong to think it can’t do so.

[thinden]

facts on FLU vs COVID19 kinda hard for MSM/DEMS to swallow?

[sauropod]

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[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Someone needs to keep track of the US CItizens killed by COVID-19, the flu and illegal immigrants

[DoodleDawg]

COVID-19: Approximately 2,871 deaths reported worldwide; 0 deaths in the U.S., as of Feb. 28, 2020.

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.

That's 646,000 deaths in approximately 1 billion cases of flu worldwide. As opposed to 2,900 deaths in approximately 100,000 cases of COVID-19. You don't see a difference in that?

[AppyPappy]

Death to Healed ratio in Italy is 50%