Mask Wars - merged thread for all stories related to disputes about wearing masks (downturn, statistics)
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It is not nitpicking. SARS-CoV-2 is not an influenza virus. The disease it causes is COVID-19, not "flu".
Flu(/grippe) has come to mean a set of symptoms, that may be caused by other viruses than influenza from which it's named after. It usually means anything that fatigues you and gives you a fever.
Ofc, this virus is not an influenza virus. And for most Americans, the influenza virus will leave them with more symptoms than this sars-cov-2.
Flu(/grippe) has come to mean a set of symptoms, that may be caused by other viruses than influenza from which it's named after. It usually means anything that fatigues you and gives you a fever.
Ofc, this virus is not an influenza virus. And for most Americans, the influenza virus will leave them with more symptoms than this sars-cov-2.
Do you think anyone with the symptoms of either really cares what the underlying virus name actually is? The point is, corona symptoms aren't as bad as even influenza, or the other "flu bugs" people claim to have year in, year out. They're in line with a cold. Some people can get a "mild cold" and die from it, some people can get a "mild cold" and have a cough for a day. Yes, it can be serious, but nothing in the real numbers tells us that corona is any more serious than all these typical year round infections.
Do you think anyone with the symptoms of either really cares what the underlying virus name actually is? The point is, corona symptoms aren't as bad as even influenza, or the other "flu bugs" people claim to have year in, year out. They're in line with a cold. Some people can get a "mild cold" and die from it, some people can get a "mild cold" and have a cough for a day. Yes, it can be serious, but nothing in the real numbers tells us that corona is any more serious than all these typical year round infections.
No one dies from a "mild cold".
Tell the quarter of a million dead Americans that "nothing in the real numbers tells us that corona is any more serious than all these typical year round infections."
Tell the quarter of a million dead Americans that "nothing in the real numbers tells us that corona is any more serious than all these typical year round infections."
There are not a quarter of a million Americans dead from Covid19. Suggesting as such, especially in the inflammatory way in which you insist on doing it, proves that you are peddling an agenda.
There are not a quarter of a million Americans dead from Covid19. Suggesting as such, especially in the inflammatory way in which you insist on doing it, proves that you are peddling an agenda.
Taking precautions, doesn't mean isolating or avoiding the economy. "Vulnerable" doesn't mean every obese or elderly person. You're creating strawmans left and right and arguing with yourself like a crazy person. Are you ok?
Getting a tad testy aren't we? Vulnerable does mean every obese or elderly person. Some number will isolate or so-called avoid the economy. Along with some portion of those in close contact with the vulnerable and who exercise caution for that reason. And some who don't want to risk covid period.
Want to quibble over those numbers and their impact on the economy, then do so. Assertions about some bar or whatever other establishments in Miami you find characteristic of the U.S. economy as a whole don't help that cause. We all know there is a subset who wants to party period.
I haven't been following this thread but just popped in. Interesting or maybe sad that some still hold hard to outright misinformation. Covid is a problem, the economic fallout likewise. Outright denial or inability to address challenges never helped much of anything in my life experience.
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