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In reply to the discussion: How can a disease with a 1% mortality rate shut down the U.S? Answered by Franklin Veaux: [View all]Caliman73
(11,760 posts)When the idiot and his administration cronies were talking about it "going away" or people were comparing it to the flu. Then they started talking about the damage to the economy from shutting down. My numbers were very rough but using that information, I had said that were were not only looking at the dead, which would have been bad enough if we had not shut down, but were were also looking at an infection rate that would have decimated the working population AND overtaxed our health care system creating even bigger problems. Just because we have COVID-19 doesn't mean that the 100,000 plus tobacco related deaths go away, or the heart disease, cancer, etc... related problems would just stop. It just means that we would not have the resources to deal with them.