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Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan
Although this flu bug is running rampant, the response has been horribly overblown. The normal influenza - which is also a coronavirus with the same age/risk factors, and the same symptomatic M.O. - kills on average 4,000 people a week; many, many thousands a year. People are oblivious to the stats or just don't care, yet they act like the world is going to end over this. The media won't tell you about the large majority who recover. They only cite deaths which add to the hysteria of society's lemmings.
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I was in agreement until this paragraph.
This is not influenza.
And your numbers aren't apples to apples. Influenza is EVERYWHERE. You want real numbers? Wait until SARS-CoV-2 has the same infiltration as influenza. Until then, you're just guessing.
Beyond that, it's not even about COVID-19 because with how long it'll take for a vaccine to be created we will all have it, so it's about everyone not getting it at once, and if you're not doing everything you can to socially distance yourself, then you're part of the problem, not the solution.