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Old 05-22-2020, 12:05 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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So, it's like the deadly Hong Kong flu of 1968.
You remember how we shut the world down for that, right?
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Old 05-22-2020, 12:14 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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And in another couple months, they will revise their estimate and say it is even lower. Sorry future generations, we all bankrupted you so lefties could get paid to stay home, smoke pot and watch porn for month on end. We could have spent some of that money reshoring industry so at least future generations could have employment opportunities to look forward to besides taco bell, but the left didn't like that idea a whole lot.
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Old 05-22-2020, 05:06 AM
 
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So the CDC has been muted and kicked to the curb until now. The CDC apparently has numbers no one else has yet has not reported them out, or done a conference / national call in months. Also Sweden's numbers are the best model we have and Swedens's percentages are significantly higher.

Methinks I will wait and see while continuing precautions.

Edit:
Forgot to mention, R 2.5 is the same as the Spanish Flu, and the CDC is still predicting 0.4% fatality rate, 4 times higher than the flu even with their estimate which does not line up with the John Hopkins information that is compiled from state daily reports.
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Old 05-22-2020, 07:56 AM
 
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And in another couple months, they will revise their estimate and say it is even lower. Sorry future generations, we all bankrupted you so lefties could get paid to stay home, smoke pot and watch porn for month on end. We could have spent some of that money reshoring industry so at least future generations could have employment opportunities to look forward to besides taco bell, but the left didn't like that idea a whole lot.
Only speaking for myself, I hope that its true. I hope the death rate is that low or even lower. I think we did the right thing as a nation. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to hand over your cash and keys there is the possibility that the gun has no bullets, the gun is broken or that the robber really is not going to shoot you for your items.

When the virus broke out, it was a robber with a gun to our heads. No one but the robber knew exactly what the robber was capable of doing. We choose not to gamble with the lives of Americans. I am proud that the nation made that choice. That is a choice I will tell any and all loved ones to make, when being robbed. Make the choice of life....over things. Things can be replaced....lives cannot.
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Old 05-22-2020, 08:19 AM
 
Location: King County, WA
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Reports vary depending on the source. I've seen 1.4% fatality rate from the UK. The point once again is that's the fatality rate when sufficient medical resources are available. This isn't just like influenza, it's more like the 1918 H1N1 outbreak, when there was no vaccine available and they had to resort to social distancing measures.

Ref.: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...-fatality-rate
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Old 05-22-2020, 08:22 AM
 
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Only speaking for myself, I hope that its true. I hope the death rate is that low or even lower. I think we did the right thing as a nation. If someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to hand over your cash and keys there is the possibility that the gun has no bullets, the gun is broken or that the robber really is not going to shoot you for your items.

When the virus broke out, it was a robber with a gun to our heads. No one but the robber knew exactly what the robber was capable of doing. We choose not to gamble with the lives of Americans. I am proud that the nation made that choice. That is a choice I will tell any and all loved ones to make, when being robbed. Make the choice of life....over things. Things can be replaced....lives cannot.
One flaw in that logic is of course that the robber may no intention of letting you live even if you hand over the items so passively handing over 'things' may not save your life either. Also, what if they asked you to hand over your kid? Remember the 'things' you're referring to are also human lives.
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Old 05-22-2020, 08:29 AM
 
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Reports vary depending on the source. I've seen 1.4% fatality rate from the UK. The point once again is that's the fatality rate when sufficient medical resources are available. This isn't just like influenza, it's more like the 1918 H1N1 outbreak, when there was no vaccine available and they had to resort to social distancing measures.

Ref.: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...-fatality-rate
it is significantly higher than the flu we have now.


It is nowhere near the Spanish flu. Nowhere. the 1918 outbreak may have been 300 times more deadly than this flu.
depending on treatment and location the death rates for those infected was between 19% and 35%


stop being hyperbolic. you are as bad as those saying this is common cold.

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Old 05-22-2020, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Dang.

What an unbelievable sh*t show this has all become.

Panic, fear-mongering, and total business/economy destruction.

Government expansion success though.

And the exposing of idiotic governors who think they are dictators, has come to light.

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Old 05-22-2020, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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I think even their 0.26% projection will turn out to be very high. However that is .0026. So that is 260 out of every 100,000, most of which were dying already and in nursing homes. The "bad Flu" just put them over the edge like any other. And this warranted a total Shut Down and Economic Collapse?
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Old 05-22-2020, 08:46 AM
 
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i would point out that in PA more people over 100 have died from COVID19 than people under 50?
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