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To: DouglasKC

We are talking about shutting down the U.S. economy because they said 68 people died of corona virus this year . But Americans 4000 died weekly for the flu that year 2018. So why shut the economy down since that will put people out of work, and cause more American and worldwide deaths? Does anyone realize what shutting down the economy as they are doing will cause to people’s ability to get food, nutrition, housing?

If you look at this chart most countries including china, Kora , the USA don’t have that many daily new deaths. As i posted above 68 total deaths in the USA.

Germany has 11 total deaths, S Kora 75 total deaths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

4000 Americans were dying because of the flu every week a few years ago.

“On February 10, 2018, Fortune reported that influenza in the United States was killing up to 4,000 Americans a week,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_United_States_flu_season

There only been 68 deaths in the USA reported for the corona virus.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

The only country that seems like it has a lot of daily deaths is Italy but that seems like an anomaly and there are many elderly people there .

The world has close to 7.8 billion people.The flu is killing much more.


25 posted on 03/15/2020 4:29:01 PM PDT by rurgan (Democrats are socialists. Vote for Trump or the US will be Venezuela)
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To: rurgan

Yep. We are vaporizing the economy. How long can it last with such a low level of activity? One week, two weeks, a month? We’re going to find out....


26 posted on 03/15/2020 4:34:01 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: rurgan

Yep. We are vaporizing the economy. How long can it last with such a low level of activity? One week, two weeks, a month? We’re going to find out....


28 posted on 03/15/2020 4:41:37 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: rurgan
The only country that seems like it has a lot of daily deaths is Italy but that seems like an anomaly and there are many elderly people there . The world has close to 7.8 billion people.The flu is killing much more

Right now it is. The corona virus will kill much more in the same amount of time if it infects the same number of people...which it is well on it's way to doing. But the real danger is that it will sicken many people critically in a very short amount of time which will overwhelm our medical system if nothing is done.

29 posted on 03/15/2020 4:45:11 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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