[kearnyirish2]

From what I gather, the difference is the ventilators required for treatment; if the new cases slowed, there may not be such an issue.

Here in NJ, four people in one family are dead (across a couple of generations); it isn’t a “cold”.

[chiller]

"Here in NJ, four people in one family are dead (across a couple of generations); it isn’t a “cold”

I'll go out on a limb that there's more to this NJ casualty. I can't imagine what it was but it doesn't appear the WuFlu could be responsible. I'll wait for more.

This ruinous panic is pathetic and won't be tolerated much longer. US sentiment is moving that way.

[Bonemaker]

In 1916, New York City experienced the first large epidemic of polio, with over 9,000 cases and 2,343 deaths. The 1916 toll nationwide was 27,000 cases and 6,000 deaths. Epidemics worsened during the century: in 1952, a record 57,628 cases of polio were reported in the United States.

Polio (also called infantile paralysis) was most often associated with children, but it affected teens and grown-ups as well. Between 1949 and 1954, 35 percent of those who contracted polio were adults.

The first known polio outbreak in the United States was in Vermont in 1894. The last cases of wild (naturally occurring) polio in the United States were in 1979 in four states, among Amish residents who had refused vaccination.

[one guy in new jersey]

The “novel corona virus”, “covid-19”, is in the family of cold viruses.

However serious the illness caused by the novel corona virus, it would presumably warrant being called a “cold”.

You appear to feel the illness caused by the novel corona virus should not be called a “cold”.

Alright, bet. What do you propose to call it?