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If that happens that would be the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu killed 675,000 Americans in a country of 106 million. Today we have over triple the population, so the Spanish Flu will be much worse.
Covid-19 will unfortunately easily pass the swine flu a decade ago that had 10,000 Americans die.
100k is best case scenario. 1+ million more likely. This virus started with wealthy travelers and their friends, once it reaches the working class the mortality rate will skyrocket with our huge population of unhealthy people. Working class people are mostly ignoring warnings in my experience.
They have no choice because so many of them are living paycheck to paycheck.
And maybe if we had considered the worst case sooner we might not have been caught so unprepared
No, I think it's more like his middle ground estimate at this point. He's not in the modeling business, but he sees the results of the various research groups doing it, and he can take all their predictions into account. Now mind you, the outcomes still depend very much on what we do. So a precise prediction is simply not possible, even if you had a perfect model. But we have already done what we have done these past 3 months, and so getting off lightly is no longer a reasonable expectation. We already have 125K verified cases, and that's substantially an incomplete count due to limited testing capacity, and it's clear that the situation is still accelerating today.
So every year, the deaths from the flu exceed 10,000, usually by a factor of nearly 4 times that amount and frequently quite a bit more than that.
The Media is largely Democrat controlled and are all about doom and gloom right now. They don't want people to know the facts, nor that this is no more than a bad Flu. As you note, we have large numbers of people die from the Flu each year, and they are usually old and already compromised by other nasty illnesses and health issues. Not saying we shouldn't try to minimize the risks to those people, but the fact is we've never crashed the economy and shut down the country until now.
The Media is largely Democrat controlled and are all about doom and gloom right now. They don't want people to know the facts, nor that this is no more than a bad Flu. As you note, we have large numbers of people die from the Flu each year, and they are usually old and already compromised by other nasty illnesses and health issues. Not saying we shouldn't try to minimize the risks to those people, but the fact is we've never crashed the economy and shut down the country until now.
Is Dr. Fauci a Democrat?
He said it -- the media didn't make it up.
If you can show where the media misrepresented some information you might have a point.
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