I read on here just a few days ago that is was no worse than a common cold and the people saying it was serious are provocateurs trying to hurt Trump.
conspiracy KooKery.
I read on here just a few days ago that is was no worse than a common cold and the people saying it was serious are provocateurs trying to hurt Trump.
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Unless you’re elderly or have serious health issues, most likely the infection will be mild.
What you read on here downplaying the issue likely have a personal desire to downplay it for the sake of downplaying it.
Even if it is “no worse than a common cold”, there is a distinct death rate for the common cold, it’s not trivial, and the deaths will be _in_addition_ to death rates we’ve normalized. Another 80,000 dead US residents, who otherwise would have survived, is not a small issue.
Numbers coming from China admit it _is_ worse “than a common cold”, with (as lead article notes) a >2.3% death rate. Should it full-on hit the USA (which I anticipate it will, having a sufficient rate of spread and nothing stopping it), that means 1 in 50 people you know will die this year - on top of those in that 50 who will die of something else.
And that death rate is based on Chinese numbers, which are generally accepted as seriously under-reported (lest The Party be embarrassed).
It’s not a matter of “provocateurs trying to hurt Trump”.
It’s a matter of 1 in 25 people you know will die of it by year’s end.
Most likely someone was being sarcastic. The Spanish Flu pandemic from 1918 to 1920 infected approximately 30% of the world's population at that time or 500 million people and killed approximately 40 to 100 million of them. This is a death rate of between 8% to 20%.
The unusual thing about that strain of flu virus is that it seems to have been most deadly to young adults with strong immune systems. The unusual thing about the name of the flu was that it did not originate in Spain, but the effect of wartime censorship gave people the impression that it was disproportionally affecting Spain which started the misnomer.
This outbreak appears to be a far less deadly strain of infection and more effective treatments will probably be devised over the next few months but there is a good chance it will put a strain on our health-care system next year. And of course the Democrats are hoping and praying that it will become a wild card in the election.
Apparently for many people who contract it it is no worse than the common cold, though obviously it kills others.
And whether serious or not Trump’s enemies are of course trying to play it up and rooting for it to be severe enough to bring him down. Sick.
“I read on here just a few days ago that is was no worse than a common cold and the people saying it was serious are provocateurs trying to hurt Trump.”
I read the same thing!