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In reply to the discussion: Contrary to Fox Noise, Coronavirus is not like the flu. Simple numbers I found: [View all]garybeck
(9,942 posts)18. thank you but i think you're missing the point, as others are
the fox news memo says that this is just like the flu, which kills 25,000 people a year in this country an no one even notices. so we don't need to worry and we don't need to do anything
the math i posted was simply to show that that statement is BS. there are a lot of paremeters to debate and we don't know. i'm not trying to tell everyone how many people are going to die or anything like that.
i'm just saying the mantra coming from fox and refucklicans, that it's just like the flu, is BS. i think the math does enough to show that it is BS.
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Contrary to Fox Noise, Coronavirus is not like the flu. Simple numbers I found: [View all]
garybeck
Mar 2020
OP
Yes, we can't go on speculation just what we know. The math from WHAT WE KNOW is this is worse
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#24
Thank you. There's a huge misconception about the entire population mortality rate.
Pobeka
Mar 2020
#20
My point is that no where near 3% of all who get the disease are dying.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2020
#17
They're not just counting those who have been hospitalized. Where did you get that idea?
Crunchy Frog
Mar 2020
#53
Your last sentence really comes off poorly. Do you know what a 3% death rate looks.
GulfCoast66
Mar 2020
#10
See my post#11 giving an explanation of Mortality rates in the epidemiology world
Pachamama
Mar 2020
#13
Have we heard from the professional epidemiologists that put out these numbers
mr_lebowski
Mar 2020
#29
The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is currently 6% - the 3.4% is not the correct number
Pachamama
Mar 2020
#11
Clearly I am not missing the point which is why I posted real math to show the point n/t
Pachamama
Mar 2020
#19
What is the ***INFECTION*** rate !? Dying is horrible getting sick from this is bad !!
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#26
So 35 million people get the seasonal flu in spite of wide spread vaccinations
captain queeg
Mar 2020
#28
it's more like 300x the mortality rate of the flu which is 0.01% (n/t)
Spider Jerusalem
Mar 2020
#49