COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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Blackleaf said:
We don't call for mass isolation because of the flu.
When 15,000 Britons died of the flu in the winter of 2017-18 they were merely called "excess winter deaths" and were largely ignored. We didn't shut down society.
The Swedish Government has decided to not implement a lockdown because they think it will be largely ineffective and just cause huge harm to the economy. And they believe a lockdown is bad for people's health and wellbeing and cause more deaths than coronavirus.
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Sweden didn't shut down because they felt their healthcare system could handle the onslaught. We shall see if they are correct.

This virus, if not controlled by drastic measures, will kill millions. Their is no vaccine or treatment and hospitals are not equipped to handle the surge in patients ie Italy. Does the flu require mass graves and refrigerated tractor trailers to house the dead? This one does.
 
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Avro52 said:
Sweden didn't shut down because they felt their healthcare system could handle the onslaught. We shall see if they are correct.
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“Sweden cannot take draconian measures that have a limited impact on the epidemic but knock out the functions of society,” says Sweden's health secretary Johan Carlson.

Does the flu require mass graves and refrigerated tractor trailers to house the dead? This one does.
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Why does it? The flu kills thousands of people every year in Canada alone and Britain alone. It kills more than coronavirus is killing.

Stop gullibly people all the apocalyptic hysteria you see in the mainstream media.
 
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We keep hearing a lot about how there are something like 35,000 cases of coronavirus in New York City, as though it's some unprecedented and apocalyptic plague that's descended upon it.


Yet the media never mention that New York City regularly has over 8000 cases of flu per WEEK.
 
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“Sweden cannot take draconian measures that have a limited impact on the epidemic but knock out the functions of society,” says Sweden's health secretary Johan Carlson.
Why does it? The flu kills thousands of people every year in Canada alone and Britain alone. It kills more than coronavirus is killing.
Stop gullibly people all the apocalyptic hysteria you see in the mainstream media.
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They are using.....right now....refrigerated trucks in NY.....right now.
 
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Blackleaf said:
We keep hearing a lot about how there are something like 35,000 cases of coronavirus in New York City, as though it's some unprecedented and apocalyptic plague that's descended upon it.
Yet the media never mention that New York City regularly has over 8000 cases of flu per WEEK.
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Never mind....have a nice day


 
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Blackleaf said:
We don't call for mass isolation because of the flu.

When 15,000 Britons died of the flu in the winter of 2017-18 they were merely called "excess winter deaths" and were largely ignored. We didn't shut down society.

The Swedish Government has decided to not implement a lockdown because they think it will be largely ineffective and just cause huge harm to the economy. And they believe a lockdown is bad for people's health and wellbeing and cause more deaths than coronavirus.
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You should try to get it through your head there are
aspects of this germ that can't be compared to the 'flu'.
 
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They are using.....right now....refrigerated trucks in NY.....right now.
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In the whole of New York State, there have been something like 1000 coronavirus deaths - out of a population of 19.5 million. Why the hell would New York City be struggling to cope with that amount of deaths? Just 1000 in the whole of the state, never mind the city. Why do you seem to think there's a massive death toll in New York? Have you not checked the figures? Stop exaggerating and stop scaremongering.

Contrast the paltry 1000 people who have died from coronavirus in New York State to the 4517 who died from flu in that state in 2017. Was there mass hysteria and panic and a lockdown when all those people died of the flu?
 
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JLM said:
You should try to get it through your head there are
aspects of this germ that can't be compared to the 'flu'.
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Like what?

It can't be compared to the flu, in one respect, in that it appears to be less deadly than the flu, of course, looking at the death toll.
 
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Re: COVIDD-19 'Pandemic'

Blackleaf said:
We keep hearing a lot about how there are something like 35,000 cases of coronavirus in New York City, as though it's some unprecedented and apocalyptic plague that's descended upon it.
Yet the media never mention that New York City regularly has over 8000 cases of flu per WEEK.
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What your point?

Sure people die from a flu, nevertheless COVID-19 is more contagious, more deadly, oh yeah and we are not having a flu pandemic, we ARE having a COVID-19 pandemic.

Go hug a Chinese or Italian person.. would you.. show them your not a racist.

 
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Blackleaf said:
Like what?

It can't be compared to the flu, in one respect, in that it appears to be less deadly than the flu, of course, looking at the death toll.
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You really can be pretty thick can't you? It travels about 10 times as fast as any flu.
 
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B00Mer said:
, nevertheless COVID-19 is more contagious, more deadly, ]
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Says who?

How many times do I have to point out to you that the deadliness of coronavirus is not known for certain and that in countries such as Italy the death rate from it merely SEEMS high because they regard many people as having died from coronavirus when they didn't and they seem to be mainly recording deaths from old people's homes

Of course, every time out this inconvenience truth it's always conveniently ignored.
 
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B00Mer said:
What your point?

Sure people die from a flu, nevertheless COVID-19 is more contagious, more deadly, oh yeah and we are not having a flu pandemic, we ARE having a COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bingo. The flu is deadly but this virus is nasty because unlike the flu, you can be contagious without symptoms. The window of that with the flu is very small. Therefore it doesn't spread as fast. The exponential way this spreads means the 1-2% of the infected will overwhelm healthcare systems as they will all hit at the same time instead of staggered in a slower manner like the flu. Also I have heard a wide variety of fatality rates. I used the low ones in this post.
 
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You really can be pretty thick can't you? It travels about 10 times as fast as any flu.
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I don't know where you get your "data" from, but not surprising to me at all I find it to be a load of hysterical scaremongering drivel.

Here's what I've just found:

Coronavirus appears to spread more slowly than the flu. This is probably the biggest difference between the two. The flu has a shorter incubation period (the time it takes for an infected person to show symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (or the time between successive cases). Coronavirus’s serial interval is around five to six days, while flu’s gap between cases is more like three days, the WHO says. So flu still spreads more quickly.

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615341/flu-vs-coronavirus-6-differences/
 
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