Bring out your FluBros!
This isn’t the flu! The virus isn’t as deadly as that.
But it sure is fun seeing all these virus experts at FR!!
We are entering a economic depression for this? The media has much to answer for, shouting “Corona Virus” in a crowded country. Irresponsible, and probably illegal.
This is BS...total BS...needs to be removed.
And 2 trillion down the drain that WE DON’T HAVE.
That’s less than the 2017 flu season.
0.1% death rate.
Here’s something to consider, 3 million people die in the U.S.A. every year for all reasons. This virus, in a population of over 300 million, freaks out everyone like the sky is falling because 1,000 died. Remember that over 50,000 die every year from car crashes, and over 250,000 because some hospital staff makes a fatal error that kills the patient. Now libs want to panic like you are the most evil person ever because 1,000 deaths, a number easily surpassed by murders in this country is so bad?
Meanwhile Fox Business just fired Trish Regan for basically pointing out how the media has been using this as a reason to go after Trump
Source?
Because this completely unverified un-sourced claim supposedly from the CDC is completely at odds with the actual data
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
If it hopefully ends up being exceptionally less virulent than we have been told - Trump will be blamed for crashing the economy.
Could you quit trying to interject some sanity to the conversation? We are trying to panic here. I don’t give a crap that the old fart died of the flu, let’s say it was covid-19.
OH MAN! you so got me. Well played
I think the end result is that this blows up the media and blows up the Fed and blows up China.
I’m thinking there is a real silver lining here.
Everybody is exposed to the flu multiple times each season. We have some herd immunity and vaccines. So only about 15-20% of the population gets it over the 7 months it is really active. Nevertheless, 0.1% of the people that get it die.
Relatively few, less than 1%, of the people of America have ever been exposed to CCP-19. Every exposure to the CCP-19 virus is new. Nobody has immunity, there is no vaccine. So up to 100% of the population could get it. In the 4 months it has been going, under the best circumstances we have been able to manage, it has killed about 2% of the people that get it. 20x as deadly as the common flu on a per case basis.
Today, in the US, more people died from CCP-19 than die on an average day from the flu in season. Our HCS is scaled for bad flu years. Not 5 or 6 bad flu years all at the same time.
We don’t even know for sure that CCP-19 has a season.
But, sure, let it run amok. What could go wrong?
What I want to know is how many flu/pnuemonia cases are being outright blamed on Corona?
” hey, 700,000 were hospitalized last year from regular flu and we handled it with no problem.”
Tell that to NY and New Orleans.
Keep laughing.
Welcome to the idiot list.
Yawn. What is the point of the endless, breathless, hysteria publishing this crap? Just wash your hands and eat your Cheerios.
CDC should go back to promoting diversity, leave the science to someone else.