[little jeremiah]

Well as of this AM Britain had a death rate of 8% in diagnosed to dead.

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Until large numbers of people are tested, the CFR cannot be known, as many people will get mild cases and won’t go to the hospital. Fauci said a couple of days ago that the CFR of wuflu is about .6-1% which is more than average flu but not the freaking black death. Plus almost all fatalities are the elderly with co-morbities.

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I'm willing for this to be true. At the nully hacienda we all started getting sick after a couple trips to the local international airport to drop off and pick up mom at the gate for a Christmas/New Years family visit.

Low grade intermittent fevers, mild coughs, congestion, malaise, etc.

We've all pretty much recovered, even my 91 year old mother who is just too stubborn to succumb...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.