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[–]magnora7[S] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The flu has a death rate of about 0.1% usually, so at 0.3% it really is just a bad flu... Which I would've vehemently disagreed with 5 weeks ago, but now it's becoming clear that the death rate was vastly overstated through a combination of bad scientific methodology, government-overreach, and a corrupt hype-driven media.

[–]astronautrob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And this will be the same thing we hear from all the politicians, power players, etc. Who have been pushing this fear mongering for the last 5 weeks. "I vehemently disagreed with the good science 5 weeks ago and instead of taking a wait a see approach we decided to use fear mongering and break the world economy. BUT NOW it's become clear that because of X and Y and Z, I have now seen the light!" No one can just admit they were wrong, it always has to be that I was wrong BECAUSE of SOMETHING. Dude you got tricked by the media and you were wrong, don't try and back peddle now. You sound like a politician. The government lied to us again, what's new? What's new is some people got tricked by the public health side of things. It was just a new tactic by the government to gain more control. You have to know this by now my friend.