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CDC estimates from Oct 2019 to March 28th that 38-55 million people have contracted the seasonal flu and 24,000-63,000 have died. Thats with an available vaccine. In 2018 80,000 people died from the seasonal flu. Hardly got a mention in the news.

Now 7300 people have died from a flu virus and the whole country has shut down. Its the most insane thing I have witnessed in my adult life. And even scarier is observing how easily an entire population can be persuaded to hysterically huddle in their homes and blindly believe all the crap coming from the news stations they routinely scorn as fake news.

What is even more amazing is that every government in the world went totally insane at the same time.

Earth has been taken over by reptilian aliens who have seized control of the world’s major media outlets—it is the only possible explanation!

(or something like that... :-) )

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

USA Deaths- 11,013

Georgia Girl 2, I come to this thread to get as much information as I can to keep myself and my loved ones alive through this event.

I would appreciate it very much if you kept your out of date information and BS opinion to other less important threads around here.

Thanks.

Just so I get you straight. You are saying this is crazy based on the low number of death.

According to what I understand, this virus kills elderly people quite quickly and can easily overwhelm a medical system and if you need the hospital, it won’t be there for you. Italy is a good example.

I also think the numbers are quite low because of the public health measures we have taken and the anti malaria drugs now being used. I believe the CDC estimates take the worst case scenario without the preventative measures. Something you failed to mention (kinda like how the press treated Trump yesterday with the IG report by failing to mention the dude was appointed by a Rat and did his Rat study in mid March instead of April to skew his Rat conclusions!)

I also understand there was no real treatment until learning about the anti malaria drug and I think there are a couple more.

I am just not sure what we could have done except for public health measures to get us to a stage where we can come up with drugs to fight this.

It seems to me that you would rather have us not take all these measures and allow millions just die just to keep things rolling along?

I don’t think that was a feasible option in this case.

What is feasible, I think is Trump’s plan to use medications, quicker turnaround testing and antibody testing to open us back up sooner.

“CDC estimates from Oct 2019 to March 28th that 38-55 million people have contracted the seasonal flu and 24,000-63,000 have died. Thats with an available vaccine. In 2018 80,000 people died from the seasonal flu. Hardly got a mention in the news.”

So again you disregarded the data I posted to you regarding why this is not the flu and what would happen if the US, never mind the rest of the world, followed the FluBro doctrine. But the reason the flu doesn’t make the news (it did, actually, but in your tiny self-absorbed universe it wouldn’t have impinged on your awareness) is because it is endemic and can’t be avoided except by following many of the same rules we are asked to follow now.

“Now 7300 people have died from a flu virus and the whole country has shut down. Its the most insane thing I have witnessed in my adult life. And even scarier is observing how easily an entire population can be persuaded to hysterically huddle in their homes and blindly believe all the crap coming from the news stations they routinely scorn as fake news.”

You also ignored the updated number of deaths I posted. Now it’s over 11,000. That’s in 6 weeks since the first death in the US was reported. Mostly in the last 2. Is that number “too scary” for you?

How many people have to die before you stop being an idiot about this and take it seriously? Or do you have to catch it yourself? Are you out working or are you sheltering?

We are now at 0.89 H1N1s.