HOW DARE YOU!
You’ll ruin the day of hundreds of people here with this post.
Actually, you’ll just receive thousands of pie graphs and charts and “data” from God knows where showing you how wrong you are.
I like your math. I’m pretty sure my wife and kids and myself were exposed. I’ve got a cough. She’s got more symptoms and is a cancer survivor. We’re praying
Your calculations are based on the self-reporting by communist China. Why would you believe them?
Dan Bongino had a doctor on his show late last week who noted that the infection rate on a cruise ship was significantly lower than expected. So, I think you’re on to something.
But you cannot control the population with seasonal flu - you can only restrict the gathering of patriots in large numbers and destroy our great economy with the new, improved flu...
Bingo.
I think the missing part of the story is that a segment of society (the pack-a-day smoker, the asthma folks, the COPD crowd, the weakened immune system individuals) are the ones who will require a massive amount of hospital care to survive, and the system (doesn’t matter which country you talk about) isn’t developed enough to handle a huge infected crowd showing up in a short period of time (say 90 days). The rest of us (probably 94-percent of society) will just consider it a serious bout of the flu and spend a week at home recovering.
Good morning my friend. Thank you for wading into the breach. Your numbers offer a rational comparison and apples to apples but I assure you the the doom squad has already been out.
I was up at 530 EDT getting ready to go take care of patients.
As the day progresses i will add my daily ribbon winners for fearper of the day
Good luck to you. Rational analysis will prevail.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the outbreak will get worse and warned the U.S. must take serious mitigation efforts.
Here come the hockey stick graphs and we are all gonna get chin_virus and turn into stone and then die.
Whew! I’m glad we finally got some guy with a Jethro Bodine cipherin’ methodology to offer his version of reality as a substitute for what even Trump’s top medical advisors and experts have to say on the topic! Dodged a bullet there!!
80,000 died last year from the flu. Keep this in perspective.
——Based on these calculations coronavirus appears no more lethal that the seasonal flu and may in fact be significantly less so——
So let’s close everything down because of Coronavirus...
They are out to get Trump no matter what they have to do....
Your case count is way off...the only “official” hard case count kept for “common flu” (multiple strains) is pediatric fatalities (144 for this flu season as of a few days ago). Estimates of cases are in a range and are in the tens of millions per flu season. See:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Your calculations seem very apples to apples comparison-like and logical to me.
HOW DARE YOU!
It’s not about mortality.
It’s fear of the unknown.
Unfortunately, that fear is destroying commerce & financial markets. When the number of new cases starts to wane (May?), people will start to believe the worst is over & start living more normally, thus improving business & the economy. Hopefully by July, the virus will be in the rear view mirror and the economy will steadily increase from there.
While everyone is in a panic about the coronavirus (officially renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization), there’s an even deadlier virus many people are forgetting about: the flu.
Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.
The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus.
https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year
Corona is a joke. Protect the old and sick people and let it run its course through the rest of the population. Open everything back up. We are destroying our economy for nothing. Stop listening to fossils like Fauci. This is not a dystopian Hollywood film. It’s just a nasty flu bug. Stop the madness.