IT'S WHAT A SERIOUS WORLD WIDE DISEASE IS CALLED AND ERGO, THIS IS A PANDEMIC !
Are hospitals in Italy, China, and other nations "over run with infected and dying people? YES!
Are there such problems on Washington and N.Y. states this bad? YES!
Did you REALLY need to add to the ridiculous number of stupid vanities now eating up FR? No, you did not!
Pandemic mean prevalent over the entire country or world...has NOTHING to do with seriousness or mortality. Just means it is everywhere...and it is...just like the flu. Name one hospital in NYC and/or Washington state where they are “overrun”...
No need for name calling. There are many self-help titles for overcoming irrational fears. Might be worth a try for you.
Pandemic as defined by Webster’s Dictionary - adj (of a disease) affecting an entire country, or the whole world. (Greek pandemos, universal).
I don’t appreciate being called a “moron.” Freepers are conservatives/libertarians. We use REASON, not pink hat emotional diatribes. To answer the points you raised:
1) We are not Italy. Our population is younger, smokes at a rate 50% less, and we don’t have socialized medicine. All of Italy’s dead are super-seniors/seniors with serious underlying health issues. I have read multiple reports that even before Covid19, if a super-senior was taken to an Italian ER with life-threatening conditions, they were “rationed” out of care. We don’t do that in the USA.
2) China has 1.4 billion people, and they have 5,000 deaths. That’s a fairly small number of dead, considering that the flu kills tens of thousands of Chinese per year.
3) I am not denying the existence of the China Virus and that, if contracted by an older person with serious respiratory issues it could be fatal. I question whether it is any more deadly than the flu or other pathogens that get passed around.
Methinks thou doth protest too much...
um ‘pan’ only means world-wide. take a deep breath there
You are a panic troll yourself.
This is not nor will it ever pan out the way the pearl clutcher’s imagined or I think wanted. The death rate from this China Virus is not even close to that of the common flu AND the common flu is killing a whole lot more young people including children than this China thing.
To date I read not a single person under 15 has had an issue with this China Virus while thousands have died from the common flu.
Italy has what seems like a high death rate because they are attributing EVERY death to the China Virus even if they died from a condition they had previously. If ONLY China Virus deaths are counted Italy’s death toll drops by 88%.
Is this virus real? Sure it is. Is it the Armageddon it is being portrayed as? NO and it isn’t even close.
We are being played big time and I’m guess MAGA Man is aware of this and will do the right thing by LEADING us out from under this blanket of bullshit the media pukes have laid on us.