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COVID-19 Lethality Not Much Different Than Flu, Says New Study

AmNat said:
Clearly these scientists need to be re-educated. They are not towing the line, and are directly contradicting information which has been reported by party officials.
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Best choice for a re-education camp/gulag = New York City

Any problems, we send in Snake Pliskin.

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digitusmedius said:
Yeah, sure, cultist. We never expect you people to be happy when you're exposed and projection like that is expected. Just so you know that the charge is accurate I'll repost the checklist below and you people check every item on it:
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Luckily people like you mostly only exist on anonymous forums. I don't think people survive too long in the real world acting like that with the exception of NY and California. Even there you will probably get whats coming to you.
 
Aberro said:
Nope, it’s been at least 4 months, and they are adding untested deaths because it’s possible they had the China flu, so the numbers are bogus.

Then there is this:

ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in the U.S. - STAT

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years, never made the news, wonder why?
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The same reason you could have 20 people die in a single night form gun violence in Chicago and hear nothing about it. Now if a white guy shoots 10 people..."Breaking News".
 
99percenter said:
Why are trumpettes so keen on making the coronavirus just like the flu?
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Dear leader has mishandled, lied and cost thousands of life's.

To the cultists that is unacceptable,and they must deny reality...
 
Cardinal said:
Literally the one dark benefit of drunk drivers is that they're eventually a participant in the disaster they inevitably make. In their loved ones or strangers' deaths, they learn that drunk driving is bad. Unfortunately, people who walk around infecting others don't get such a vivid lesson, so they're unlikely to learn the lesson.
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OMG your avatar!!
 
Aberro said:
Nope, it’s been at least 4 months, and they are adding untested deaths because it’s possible they had the China flu, so the numbers are bogus.

Then there is this:

ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in the U.S. - STAT

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years, never made the news, wonder why?
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CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years


By Associated Press

/September 26, 2018


Yeah, never made the news!
 
Cardinal said:
Neat. I guess all those stories of hospitals across the globe being instantly overwhelmed are made up.
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Crisis actors. This is a big plot to get trump and ruin the economy for ever.....
 
Cardinal said:
Actually, I wonder if that's how people in weird end-days cults think: that everyone else is a cultist and they're the normal ones.
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Well duh. Thus digitusmedius, a member of a weird end-days cult, called me a "cultist" because I'm a non-member.
 
The dead should be grateful.

People in general don't like to speak out about their weaknesses and disabilities for the obvious reason that they don't want to be pitied. I understand that. Rand Paul doesn't want to tell you he's in physical therapy and suffers from paralyzing neuropathy (just an example. hopefully he's fine), yet there are some covid survivors that are spreading the word. This is not influenza. There are thirty somethings in physical therapy to learn how to walk again.
 
Aberro said:
We won’t reach that number this year, and it’s been 4 months.
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Actually it's only been widely spreading for about 6 weeks. So this time next year, 2021, we'll have good numbers. If it's like the 1918 flu, the deadliest months were the second wave, which for us will be in October and forward.
 
Cardinal said:
Neat. I guess all those stories of hospitals across the globe being instantly overwhelmed are made up.
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Yes, when you have a high number of persons wanting to be tested because of the panic and these people are heavily populating cities like NYC you will get overrun quickly.
 
Integrityrespec said:
Yes, when you have a high number of persons wanting to be tested because of the panic and these people are heavily populating cities like NYC you will get overrun quickly.
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Every place where strong lockdown measures haven't been enacted early will have hospitals over capacity, and that's for the simple reason that all hospitals are made for the capacity of their community under normal circumstances. NYC's unique factors made it particularly susceptible to something like cv19, though the three day delay certainly didn't help.

More rural areas in the US are lagging behind the cities, of course, but their hospitals will be over capacity too.
 
longview said:
Keep in mind that the measuring error in mortality is a systematic error, due to insufficient testing, and mostly testing of pre selected groups.
The nature of such an error is that the mortality rate will decrease as we test more.
The reason is that the asymptotic people will also get tested and push up the infected rate relative to the deaths.
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Hopefully that's true, but when the epidemiologists estimate a death rate of about 1% or so, that assumes a large number of infected but not tested and asymptomatic individuals. What the new studies appear to show - we don't know much yet - is there are more who get infected without symptoms than current evidence has demonstrated/assumed.

But, yeah, testing has a big impact on the numbers, which is why the UK and Germany have roughly the same measured cases per million (1,838 versus 1,750), but the deaths per million in the UK are 243/million, but only 56/million for Germany, and it's because Germany tested at high rates from the jump, and the UK hasn't.
 
captaintrips said:
I think we have to bury and ignore information like this.... it might expose what this crap has been about from the very beginning.

We dare not do that. Until long since this has passed. Then we can talk about it and argue about who is "spreading misinformation" still LOL
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Yes, the liberals are burying it and ignoring it by discussing it on this thread. Great point!
 
Aberro said:
Nope, it’s been at least 4 months, and they are adding untested deaths because it’s possible they had the China flu, so the numbers are bogus.
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Who is "they"? What is it with you people and completely ridiculous global conspiracies? Why would doctors in Italy overstate the death toll? Are the photos of hospitals being overrun fabrications to make Trump look bad too? Why is Trump bragging about turning convention centers into makeshift hospitals if this is no big deal? Is converting convention centers into hospitals normal?

Then there is this:

ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in the U.S. - STAT

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years, never made the news, wonder why?
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First, the exact same people report these deaths..................

Second, you're linking to an Associated Press article. Which is the news.

Third, here it is in the "fake" NYT:
Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu Last Winter, Highest Toll in Years - The New York Times

In all honesty, do you even care if what you're posting even appears to be believable?
 
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apdst said:
And you people think you're smarter than everybody else. The government told you stay home and you couldn't wait to obey. :lamo

If they told you to get on a train "for your own good", would you do it, no questions asked?
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No, and we've all asked the question - why stay home - and the answer is obvious enough, which is to help slow/prevent the spread of a virus that has a decent chance of killing me.

Let's see, the virus is spreading in my community, so should I:

1) Go to movies, sit elbow to elbow with strangers, then to filthy Walmart, then maybe get a beer at a crowded bar downtown with a band playing, or
2) Stay home as much as possible and limit my contact with strangers?

Doesn't take a lot of thought to figure out the right answer. Government shutdowns were necessary because people couldn't figure that out, believed the lies that CV19 isn't a big deal, and/or who didn't give a damn that them being reckless because they weren't in a high risk group might kill someone else who was in that group, directly or indirectly.
 
JasperL said:
No, and we've all asked the question - why stay home - and the answer is obvious enough, which is to help slow/prevent the spread of a virus that has a decent chance of killing me.

Let's see, the virus is spreading in my community, so should I:

1) Go to movies, sit elbow to elbow with strangers, then to filthy Walmart, then maybe get a beer at a crowded bar downtown with a band playing, or
2) Stay home as much as possible and limit my contact with strangers?

Doesn't take a lot of thought to figure out the right answer. Government shutdowns were necessary because people couldn't figure that out, believed the lies that CV19 isn't a big deal, and/or who didn't give a damn that them being reckless because they weren't in a high risk group might kill someone else who was in that group, directly or indirectly.
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Yeah, no you never questioned a ****ing thing.

Gubmint: "Stay home!"

Leftists: "Uh...ok!"
 
apdst said:
Yeah, no you never questioned a ****ing thing.

Gubmint: "Stay home!"

Leftists: "Uh...ok!"
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We're staying home to prevent the spread of a highly infectious and deadly virus. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
 
Cardinal said:
Neat. I guess all those stories of hospitals across the globe being instantly overwhelmed are made up.
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it's a global hoax. all countries are in on it.


and in other news, yet another Trump leg humper tries to protect his man.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
We're staying home to prevent the spread of a highly infectious and deadly virus. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
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Because you were told that's what you needed to do and you haven't questioned it, one bit.
 
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