Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

One opinion, and while Covid-19 is not the flu, and the CDC estimates that influenza has only resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths in America annually since 2010, yet while the issue is why did we not see a comparative proportionate response to the Asian flu with its est. 500 million infection WW and 1–4 million deaths and 116,000 (according to the CDC) deaths in America, when the population was about half what it is today?
1 posted on 04/26/2020 1:18:05 PM PDT by daniel1212
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: daniel1212
Many hold out hope for a vaccine...

Each year, there is a vaccine for the flu...yet thousand still die. What makes people think that a vaccine for the coronavirus will prevent anyone from dying?

2 posted on 04/26/2020 1:21:44 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

BS. I’ll say it again. I’m a bone marrow transplant patient. My son travels internationally. after he gets in from the airport, he changes his clothes snd I give him a hug. He’s been in and out of S Korea, Japan, Ireland for months, I can go on. I have an effed up immune system. He doesn’t have a sniffle nor do I. Why? We practice good hand washing. We learned good hygiene when I got AML leukemia and it’s kept me from getting sick.


4 posted on 04/26/2020 1:32:54 PM PDT by HollyB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

New Zealand has just gone from Level ...

That means the schools are open so that children of workers have somewhere to go they will have class....the rest don’t have to go back to school until its mandatory at Level Two...

Also now my brother in NZ can visit and hug his children and grandchildren for the first time in 4 weeks... only family members...

The lockdown in NZ was house arrest...They didn’t have the freedom we have here in TN...we could leave home whenever we wanted to...

and its not winter out there as yet....


6 posted on 04/26/2020 1:46:01 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

'Paid for the damn virus that’s killing us': Giuliani rips Fauci over grants to Wuhan laboratory

by Madison Dibble | April 26, 2020

According to a report, the U.S. Intelligence Community has growing confidence that the current coronavirus strain may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology rather than from a wildlife market, as the Chinese Communist Party first claimed. During a Sunday interview on The Cats Roundtable, Giuliani questioned why the U.S. gave money to the lab.

"Back in 2014, the Obama administration prohibited the U.S. from giving money to any laboratory, including in the U.S., that was fooling around with these viruses. Prohibited! Despite that, Dr. Fauci gave $3.7 million to the Wuhan laboratory — even after the State Department issued reports about how unsafe that laboratory was, and how suspicious they were in the way they were developing a virus that could be transmitted to humans," he claimed.

He added, "We never pulled that money. Something here is going on, John. I don’t want to make any accusations. But there was more knowledge about what was going on in China with our scientific people than they disclosed to us when this first came out. Just think of it: If this laboratory turns out to be the place where the virus came from, then we paid for it. We paid for the damn virus that’s killing us.”


Direct link to interview
8 posted on 04/26/2020 1:54:28 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212
Yep... For us old folks (my wife & I) this chicom sneak attack has cost us:
  1. Hugging lots of grandkids and great grandkids: Extremely Important;
  2. Casino access (Wife-Slots;Me-Craps): Very Important;
  3. Doctor appointments (Wife every couple of months-Heart): Important;
  4. Bass fishing: Slightly Less Than Important;
  5. Target practice (Just me): Not Too Important; and,
  6. The nightmare of taking the wife grocery shopping (Called binge label-reading): Who Cares?-Not me!

13 posted on 04/26/2020 2:18:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

From the article:

“Herd immunity is when people who are prone to the milder forms of this infection get it, get over it, get antibodies and are immune…if I have antibodies, I can’t get it and I can’t give it to you, so it doesn’t matter if you’re vulnerable. If we shake hands you won’t get it from me.”

When enough people have antibodies, the virus can’t get through the population. “It finds it harder to get through to a host where it can survive and it dies out, that’s herd immunity,” Dr. Katz told Levin.”

Who was it claimed that people couldn’t get immunity from the c-virus?


14 posted on 04/26/2020 2:39:50 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

In what area of life have we EVER demanded 100% Risk Free interaction?


15 posted on 04/26/2020 2:49:56 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

In what area of life have we EVER demanded 100% Risk Free interaction?


16 posted on 04/26/2020 2:49:59 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

In the USA, Covid-19 is expected to kill 1 in 5,000 this season. How many will the vaccine kill?

Note: Yearly colder season diseases, like Covid-19 appears to be, have seasons that straddle the new year. So, this year’s season for Covid ends around August. We are in 2019-2020 season. In the fall, it’s the start of 2020-2021 season. The death count resets.


25 posted on 04/26/2020 6:19:58 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 Collyer Report!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson