What shark???
Posted on 03/16/2020 11:24:54 AM PDT by catnipman
The Diamond Princess was the worst case scenario, according to Levitt. “If you compare the ship to a country—we are talking 250,000 people crowded into one square kilometer, which is horribly crowded. It is four times the crowding in Hong Kong. It is as if the entire Isaeli population was crammed into 30 square kilometers.” Furthermore, he said, the ship had a central air conditioning and heating system and a communal dining room. “Those are extremely comfortable conditions for the virus and still, only 20% were infected. It is a lot, but pretty similar to the infection rate of the common flu.”
As with the flu, most of those dying as a result of coronavirus are over 70 years old, Levitt said. “It is a known fact that the flu mostly kills the elderly—around three-quarters of flu mortalities are people over 65.” To put things in proportion: “there are years when flu is raging, like in the U.S. in 2017, when there were three times the regular number of mortalities. And still, we did not panic. That is my message: you need to think of corona like a severe flu. It is four to eight times as strong as a common flu, and yet, most people will remain healthy and humanity will survive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at calcalistech.com ...
Environmentalists crestfallen.
The coronavirus PALES in comparison.
The flu line is one of two lines on the chart that is incorrect.
All the rest have been verified as correct.
“...most people will remain healthy and humanity will survive.”
Members of the Socialist Democrat Party are deeply saddened!
Consider also that Italy and China have almost double the rate of smokers as the US and China in particular has significantly more air pollution than the US. This would suggest the citizens of both countries are at a higher risk of respiratory issues.
Who will benefit politically when the panic turns to anger as more and more people realize this is a serious issue but not nearly to the level that it has been represented by the media and their political lackey’s?
Italy did not melt down and the Italy propaganda is week old stale bread...nice try doomer.
Exactly. Humanity will survive.
The WuFlu is only a “Boomer Remover” (as the kids are calling it)
Travis McGee is a liberal troll idiot.
I agree. Things are looking great if we just ignore Italy, Spain, Germamy, France, NY, WA, CA, FL.
The biggest pandemic hoax by the mediaVOMITS and the deep state unfortunately I feel they have succeeded in crippling our economy..the damage has already been done! As usual NO MEDIAVOMITS will be held accountable! Millions might be without jobs after the hysteria dies.. ALL because the mediaVOMITS hated the president so much that no cost was spared!! We are the beneficiaries of their EFFIN hoax!! Yes the virus exist but not to the point of killing everything in its way...I HATE THE MEDIAVOMITS I PRAY THEY GET THEIRS when the people finally see everything with a clearer minds! I pray the people hold them accountable and punish them!! They are evil and contribute absolutely NOTHING good to this nation only bad deeds, hate and lies!! They are the enemy within!!
Rose - you are so right!! About everything.
What shark???
That’s kind of the point. He said “one of two lines on the chart that is incorrect.” The other is COVID. He’s making fun of it.
Kidding aside, yes it is going to get worse before it gets better. My guess is new cases will level out around May. By then there will be so many make-shift hospitals to deal with worse cases. My big concern is how this will affect production and transport of goods, and what businesses go under because of the panic.
Just saw the mayor of Los Angeles on local TV and ignored his feel good BS. However, he had top level people from the major food chains explaining how they are increasing the speed of re-stocking the shelves, and that their employees are working around the clock to sanitize everything and re-stock. I wish they had a trucking rep to say what they are doing.
Last thought: The dem/socs are trying to blame Pres. Trump for this world pandemic as if he formulated the virus in the Trump Tower. I want to see SleepyGroper Joe try to put this on Trump. Trump's simple response is that during his campaign he was determined to bring most if not all production back to the USA. Seems he had a point since China produces some 80% of the active ingredients in our medicines and has recently threatened to stop shipment.
Relax. I was just having a bit of fun.
Although I didn’t say it, the lines I’m sure are correct are all of the vertical and all of the horizontal lines.
The two lines, ‘Flu’ and ‘Corona’ are just someones evil imagination.
One can dream.
Italy has it bad. Or more precisely, the Italian elderly have it bad. The Average age of fatal cases is 80.3. And fatalities drop off significantly further down the age table. No one under 30 has died. Two under 40 have died. Both had significant prior conditions.
https://www.thelocal.it/20200311/coronavirus-what-do-we-know-about-the-victims-in-italy
I love the dishonesty of that graph. Pure snake oil. These panic pushers are of the same breed as the anthropogenic climate change scammers. They even use the term “denier”
I swear these panic pushers should just move over to DU and be done with it.
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