“3000 deaths in a world with 7 billion people is barely a rounding error. 3000 people is a small auditorium.
I’m sorry, people that died or lost someone they loved. As a percentage of the total population of the world 3000 can barely be expressed.
Over 2 million people die every day of all causes. Heck probably 3 million people could die in a single day and we wouldn’t even know it.
Take 3000 people over a span of 2 months that is about 50 a day of corona virus. I am not going to get scared of odds like that. Shame on the people that are fomenting fear over it.”
23 posted on 3/3/2020, 1:52:10 PM by webheart (L)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3821429/posts?page=23#23
The age old Cui Bono question, applies to what appears daily on FR and the many concerned and panicked posters.This is posted by Grampa Dave.
Good evening,
As a point of discussion: the thing that got a lot of our attention a few weeks ago was the absolute brutality associated with the shut down in China. The blockades were pretty dramatic. Locking people down like that would never work in the USA.
They literally locked down half of their country. The complete shut down of their manufacturing and transport systems for more than a month now is certainly concerning.
So, if you are asking why eyebrows have been raised...that is one answer.
The largest social/civilian lockdown in human history will get some attention.
Most people don’t know that happened. They are coming late to the show and they freak out.
I’m sorry, people that died or lost someone they loved. As a percentage of the total population of the world 3000 can barely be expressed.
Over 2 million people die every day of all causes. Heck probably 3 million people could die in a single day and we wouldn’t even know it.
That's sorta like living downwind of a huge forest, and a storm rolls through, dry lighting, only two dozen trees are struck and set ablaze.
Would you say "Awwww, too bad about those trees, but there's a million trees in the woods, a couple dozen burning is nothing to worry about!"
Let us know when you smell smoke Grampa Dave, wouldja?
I think a lot of people in Paradise, CA waited until they smelled smoke to worry.
The only panicking I see is by the Meta Concern Trolls. Maybe they are attention starved.
Your logic in dismissing this is flawed. It isn’t a static situation or just “the flu”.
Yeah, everybody is going to die someday. This thing will make it sooner for some people. If that does not concern you, feel free to not participate in the ongoing threat evaluation. But shame on you for your casual disregard of human life.
In the past week more people have died from the flu than have ever died from Coronavirus