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Almost like the flu.
1 posted on 04/18/2020 7:05:19 PM PDT by Libloather
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Who would ever have guessed that the Communist Revolution would come about as an hysterical response to the common cold?


2 posted on 04/18/2020 7:11:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The duty of a true PATRIOT is to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine)
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To: Libloather

did anyone ever say that it was very deadly? From the very beginning it was stated that 80% of those affected would have the symptoms of a mild cold if at all and about 15% would have harsh symptoms and the remaining require hospitalization and unfortunately death.

Unfortunately, some friends of mine have passed. 3 were very old, one had cancer :(

There are many that die of the flu every year and we don’t close the schools and the nation’s economy.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 7:13:03 PM PDT by Coleus
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If ANYTHING comes out of the WHO, ignore it as Chicom propaganda.


4 posted on 04/18/2020 7:14:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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And BTW, there are two strains of this manufactured virus, a mild one much like a seasonal flu and a virulent one that replicates fast and devastatingly.


5 posted on 04/18/2020 7:16:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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This from the WSJ? Guess it getting traction!🙏🏻 I'm so ready to get out and enjoy freedom! I will never again take freedom for granted ever again!
6 posted on 04/18/2020 7:22:15 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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The coronavirus is deadly to the elderly and those with weakened bodies already, mostly due to voluntary choice of a bad lifestyle.

The coronavirus is not so deadly to most Americans.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 7:25:30 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Libloather

NO SHIT!!!


8 posted on 04/18/2020 7:26:15 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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Conned by scum Democrats in the CDC.


10 posted on 04/18/2020 7:29:16 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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I guess WSJ doesn’t want to be labeled “fake”...anD is jumping ahead of most other media...this gonna be good
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12 posted on 04/18/2020 7:39:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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I think this virus is fairly serious. I think it’s a bit worse than the seasonal flu. At least for this first go-around.
I think the country should go back to work. All of it.


14 posted on 04/18/2020 7:49:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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I believe I had it in late February. I thought I had the worst cold I had ever had for 2 weeks. Took another 2 weeks for the cough to go away. Dang thing also gave me pink eye.


21 posted on 04/18/2020 8:09:56 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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39,000 Americans dead in 1 month.
5.3% of known cases and still rising.


24 posted on 04/18/2020 8:21:29 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Be great to have twice as many flu deaths every year wouldn’t it?

But if China had been open about the outbreak we could have done less “social distancing”.
Heck, it may have even been stopped there!


26 posted on 04/18/2020 8:26:59 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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-—— Original Message -——
From: moses
To: Rush Limbaugh
Cc: John muir ; Joe pags
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 9:44 AM
Subject: Bonn Univ Study

Leading German Virologist: ”No Transmission Of The Virus In Supermarkets, Restaurants Or Hairdressers Has Been Proved”
RTL Luxembourg ^ | 09.04.2020

Posted on 4/13/2020, 12:52:54 AM by Helicondelta

Mr Streeck is a professor for virology and the director of the Institute of virology and HIV Research at the University Bonn. He explained the methodology of his new study in Heinsberg, the “epicentre” of Germany’s COVID-19 outbreak, and talked about potential plans for a country to move forward gradually in getting back to a “normal” life.

These research findings have already provided some indication on how the virus works, as Streeck clarified:

“There is no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping. Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time, for example the après- ski parties in Ischgl, Austria.” He could also not find any evidence of ‘living’ viruses on surfaces. “When we took samples from door handles, phones or toilets it has not been possible to cultivate the virus in the laboratory on the basis of these swabs….”
(Excerpt) Read more at today.rtl.lu ...


36 posted on 04/18/2020 8:52:32 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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like most Americans have known all along.


39 posted on 04/18/2020 9:46:32 PM PDT by wmarshalllives3 (Free people always face censorship)
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Almost like the flu.

Sure, if you are talking about a flu that kills 40,000 Americans in a 1 month period. As I understand it, last years flu took six months to do that.

40 posted on 04/18/2020 10:05:54 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty."/)
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Bookmark


45 posted on 04/18/2020 11:04:08 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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Well, being behind a paywall, it’s not useful.


46 posted on 04/18/2020 11:30:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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New Data Suggest the Coronavirus Isn’t as Deadly as We Thought

= = = = = = = = = =

They say we like they have a turd in their pocket.

Not everyone bought into all this BS ‘sky is falling crap’.


48 posted on 04/19/2020 12:09:39 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.


So, skipping to what little I could see of it on non-wsj sites, this is a good-news/bad-news thing, that suggests both that the disease has a lower mortality rate (especially early on), but that it is more infectious by far, which would also mean that instead of being like the flu and topping out at about 6-6.5 population infection rate, it is likely to be far higher. That’s not exactly wonderful.

Reading further, they apparently found antibodies for 49-50 people amongst the 3300, which they weighted to give a value representing 94 people. That’s got a huge margin of error in respect to what we are talking about.

“These prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by early April,”


Again, widely varying. Also, nothing in the limited-access version of the study seems to clarify the point at which the particular serum tests are able to detect the antibodies, though I have seen elsewhere that at least one of the versions detects at about a 70% rate during the first 4-10 days after infection (in other words, before even the earliest of symptoms, until a majority of those who will develop symptoms have done so). So, that suggests that there is at least a partial overstatement in an apples-to-apples comparison (probably only around 2:1).


49 posted on 04/19/2020 12:11:19 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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