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Flubros ad Flubras! Day 25 (A place for Flubros and Flubras)
www.freerepublic.com ^ | 13 April 2020 | Impimp

Posted on 04/14/2020 5:39:47 AM PDT by impimp

It’s just the flu, bro.

Looking at Sweden’s Coronavirus worldometer (every country has one) There doesn’t seem to be any appreciable difference between the infection curve there and the infection curve of other countries. Same goes for the death curve. Yet Sweden chose not to destroy its economy with a massive lockdown.

It is surprising that a country like Sweden, a fan of the UN and home to many socialists, went its own way and discovered a better way than just about every other country.


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KEYWORDS: almostover; commoncold; coronavirus; fearbros; mildsymptoms
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It’s just the flu, bro.

Looking at Sweden’s Coronavirus worldometer (every country has one) There doesn’t seem to be any appreciable difference between the infection curve there and the infection curve of other countries. Same goes for the death curve. Yet Sweden chose not to destroy its economy with a massive lockdown.

It is surprising that a country like Sweden, a fan of the UN and home to many socialists, went its own way and discovered a better way than just about every other country.

1 posted on 04/14/2020 5:39:47 AM PDT by impimp
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To: impimp

The flubros are owed a giant apology


2 posted on 04/14/2020 5:40:36 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: KMG365; Bartholomew Roberts; impimp; skip2myloo; cweese; MayflowerMadam; Geronimo; abb; ANKE69; ...

Ping. Freepmail me to get on ping list.


3 posted on 04/14/2020 5:41:03 AM PDT by impimp
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To: Mom MD

Good work.

Keep up the fire!


4 posted on 04/14/2020 5:41:40 AM PDT by Bruiser 10 (Will you Boogaloo?)
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To: impimp

Good work.

Keep up the fire!


5 posted on 04/14/2020 5:42:11 AM PDT by Bruiser 10 (Will you Boogaloo?)
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To: impimp

I live in Ohio. Herr DeWine is going to wring every ounce of control he can out of this. Latest word is he may require masks to be worn by everyone, everywhere in public, once the restrictions are eased.

I’m getting more than a little angry over this trampling of my rights.


6 posted on 04/14/2020 5:43:57 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: impimp

Standard view is that “it would have been worse in the US but we successfully mitigated the danger through isolation”.

But I think that is really coming into question. There is evidence that isolation and the economic shutdown did little or nothing to help. Other countries did not shutdown and don’t seem to have suffered more from the disease. So it may be reasonable to see COVID19 as a flu season significantly less serious than the 2017 flu season.

If we open back up, I don’t think the sky will fall. And I do think the economy will explode in a very good way.


7 posted on 04/14/2020 5:44:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: impimp

Sweden Coronavirus Death rate
Confirmed 11,445 Deaths 1,033

that is a high number compared to America.


8 posted on 04/14/2020 5:47:23 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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No it isn’t. Also the death curve is supposed to be delayed with social distancing. So one could easily make a good case that US deaths will continue after Sweden’s deaths have drastically slowed.


9 posted on 04/14/2020 5:51:49 AM PDT by impimp
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Occam’s Razor: Sweden’s economy was already the socialist craphole we’re living in now?


10 posted on 04/14/2020 5:54:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Looks like the curve is flattening there


11 posted on 04/14/2020 5:55:42 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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Flattening the curve means lengthening the curve.
Even Fauci and Birx would acknowledge that.

We have chosen to suppress the death spike in exchange
for putting up with this longer. Cases in Sweden will slowly drop to zero before ours do.


12 posted on 04/14/2020 5:55:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: impimp
Per capita, our rates are 2/3 of Sweden's and our country has many more potential hot spots.

That said, I think we could have struck a different balance, but since it would have caused numerous more deaths, the buying into the panic by so many dictated that we be more extreme - looser handling of this would have created a firestorm that may very well have handed the WH and possibly the Senate to the Dems...we now have a chance at full control if we stick with the President.

13 posted on 04/14/2020 5:57:38 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Mom MD

It ain’t the flubro. This is the mostest deadliest by rus evah. And your taking it so lightly is killing thousands upon thousands. Sure, a depression will kill millions but that is just speculation. The models of the virus and what it can do are sacrosanct.

So please surrender your liberty without question or you hate Trump or something.

So serf’s up bro.

Love,

The Serf Bro’s.


14 posted on 04/14/2020 6:00:00 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Latest word is he may require masks to be worn by everyone, everywhere in public,

If our little Hitler wanna-bee in CO tries that I think I'll find/make a mask with a middle finger on it.

15 posted on 04/14/2020 6:00:04 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: impimp

Many of us will have been exposed and never gotten it, high immune systems. Others will have gotten it, and barely noticed. Most vulnerable seem to be the elderly and the extremely obese ~ same for many illnesses


16 posted on 04/14/2020 6:00:25 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: brownsfan

You will have a nice cottage industry selling masks that read “F*** You, Mike DeWine!”


17 posted on 04/14/2020 6:00:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: impimp
From Wikipedia re: The Spanish flu. Any corollary to NYC I wonder?

A 2007 analysis of medical journals from the period of the pandemic found that the viral infection was no more aggressive than previous influenza strains. Instead, malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene promoted bacterial superinfection. This superinfection killed most of the victims, typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed.

Spanish flu

18 posted on 04/14/2020 6:00:58 AM PDT by Kalija (About face)
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yes it is.

the US death rate is NOT ~10% as you claim.


19 posted on 04/14/2020 6:01:57 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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Population of Sweden is 10.23 million, USA population is 33 times higher, so 1,033 deaths in Sweden corresponds to 33,000 deaths in the US. But the population of NYC is also about 10mm and has 7,000 deaths already. So it depends.
Oh by the way flubros -
https://www.sora.at/uploads/media/Austria_COVID-19_Prevalence_BMBWF_SORA_20200410_EN_Version.pdf
This study (done by testing 1500+ people at random) finds about .33% of Austrians were infected, about 28,000 people in the whole country (population 8.8mm). There have been 384 deaths in Austria from CV19 (but only 337 at the time the study was released). 300/28000 is a 1.1% Infection Fatality Rate, 10 times higher than seasonal flu.


20 posted on 04/14/2020 6:02:31 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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