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Originally Posted by Xist
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Anyhow, I'm still not interested enough to turn on the news. Wake me up when we've lost more people than the seasonal flu.
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CDC estimates that last winter, the flu had about a 0.1% mortality rate in the US, with a 7% mortality rate among cases bad enough to require hospitalization. And we have major programs researching it and developing vaccines every year. And they have to have commercials promoting the flu shot because most people don't bother to get it.
Coronavurus seems to have 7% mortality right out the door. We don't even have test kits in this country*, much less a vaccine, and the only way we can even slow its spread seems to be by burning everything down. It's already far worse than the flu even if the body count hasn't caught up yet.
* If people showing symptoms can't get tested, we don't have tests. 330,000,000 people have shut down their society- no travel, no sports, no schools, no toilet paper. My wife is setting up our church to stream tomorrow's service. But a report from yesterday says we've tested 15,000 people.
The president said we'll have a vaccine in a few months, though. Maybe it's going to be made up of those "thoughts and prayers" that they claim are the most effective thing to use against mass shootings.