[gogeo]

Your simple minded indignation impresses me.

"It's just the flu" means anywhere from 10,000-60,000 deaths. Were you advocating that the country should be shut down for flu season?

I'm sure we would have noticed.

What's the difference?

[noiseman]

The projection if we don’t isolate from one another is 2.2 million deaths in the U.S., which adjusted for population growth would be a slightly higher percentage than were killed by the Spanish Flu. Are you ready to just accept that?

Look, no choice here is a good one. Leaders are presented with an awful choice: Let huge numbers of people die or destroy the economy. I could make an argument for going either way, but I’m just trying to point out that contrary to the head-in-the-sand scoffers here, we are dealing with a real threat, and not “just the flu.”