No one is saying it’s “just the flu” bro. They’re saying it’s not Armageddon and the flu is killing more people. Our country is burning down the house to kill the termites.
spot on
“No one is saying it’s “just the flu” bro. They’re saying it’s not Armageddon and the flu is killing more people.”
This thread is proof that the “not as deadly as the flu” argument was pointless. It didn’t have to be.
“No one is saying it’s “just the flu”, bro.”
Someone on a thread a short while ago called it “a cold that gives some elderly people pneumonia”.
Our country is burning down the house to kill the termites.
Just what the rat doctors ordered. Wait..........when the smoke clears we will know what just happened and we will be furious. The damage has already been done and their prime objective has been reached
No one is saying it’s “just the flu” bro.
That the flu is killing more people does in fact have a meaning, but not the meaning many of them are implying. Most of the meaning there is simply that the flu has a much, much larger head start in hosts, and it gives a good idea how widespread it would be if we ignored it the same way we have done with the flu. Useful information for sure, but not so clearly comparable in determining what exactly the extent of vigilance should be.
I think we are over-reacting to some probably very significant extent, however, we don’t know the exact optimum response level, and people aren’t both responding and segregating where the problems actually are. We also had the majority of people ignoring the issue while small steps might have been sufficient and are freaking out because their reality has been pierced by hearing every consequence at once.