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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
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.
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From what I've heard, mortality rate is more like 1%, which is still 10x greater than the flu. People that have it don't even know because we're used to getting sick and just getting over it. Testing is available even if not analysed locally. We've been outsourcing labs for a long time.
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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.
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I don't know what your point is here. Politicians always use tragedy as a way to get sheeple to act out of emotion rather than reason because they are slimy and corrupt, and we're (collectively) irrational.
Mass shootings represent among the lowest causes of death in the US. Ladders falls kill way more. Maybe we need background checks on ladders purchases... I kid, and I'm for requiring a safety certification for gun ownership (like a drivers license), but we've got to keep things in perspective, which hardly anyone does.
Not saying Corona virus is something to be dismissed, because we still don't know the full potential for harm it may hold, but personally I'm not going to worry until it crosses some threshold, roughly more deadly than the flu.