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[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What is with the hysteria in this thread and this virus in general?

There are over 320 million people in this country. Yesterday I read that 60 people in the US are sick with it. The NY Times claims it's 163. It is nopt a pandemic and not even remotely concerning.

Here:

In the news, "HIV drug cures coronavirus" all of that panic now will start subsiding.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11106718/coronavirus-patient-successfully-treated-hiv-drug-spain/

100,000 cases globally, and 97% will show no ill effects.

A user on breakingnews.com, I think lays this out the best, which I'll post after the redefinggod article I read:

I personally think the hype surrounding COVID-19 is ridiculously overblown; you need only look at the numbers, do a little basic math, and apply common sense.

http://redefininggod.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cdcfludeaths.png

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

As you can see, a severe flu season can cause around 61,000 deaths in a single year here in the US. So just imagine if the propagandists gave such a year’s dominant flu strain an exotic name like “FLUVID -19” and had the press start breathlessly covering every single infection and death like the plague was upon us. You would see headlines like this…

http://redefininggod.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fluvid200302.png

Well you don’t have to just imagine such shenanigans, because it’s happening right now with COVID-19. To see that this is true, let’s crunch a few numbers…

China has roughly four times the population of the US, and it’s safe to assume that their yearly flu death rates are roughly comparable to ours, so China can have around 244,000 flu deaths in a bad year (61,000 x 4 = 244,000). And those deaths occur during the typical 13-week flu season which stretches from January through early April (remember that COVID-19 infections in China began appearing in numbers in January, right in sync with flu season).

So now that we’re 2/3 of the way through flu season, let’s look at how many Chinese have died of COVID-19 so far…

The official number of dead is currently 2,912, which is only 1.2% of yearly flu deaths in a bad year.

The alternative media narrative, ie your Alex Jones, Drudge Report, controlled oppositions state that deaths are actually 10 times higher than what’s being reported [no sources are given] would put the number of dead at 29,120, which is only 12% of yearly flu deaths in a bad year.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-02-23-coronavirus-outbreak-china-ten-times-worse.html

The highest alt-media number I’ve seen is that deaths are actually 52 times higher than what’s being reported, which would put the number of dead at 151,424, which is only 62% of yearly flu deaths in a bad year.


[–]HeyImSancho 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow, okay, so you've done next to no research on this. I will state, as I have, and do, I don't know, but you're "Concrete" in your position of knowing by way of the CDC, and 'redefininggod'; it's even funnier that you use 'NaturalNews' as they've got some very good articles that lay out the case that this is very serious, and on par with SARS-Cov2.... That's funny as hell. I hope your advice on any topic is either not taken, or that should you give the wrong advice, somewhere there's forgiveness. Our words matter, and we're accountable.

You realize that Covid-19, is a Coronavirus, just like SARS, and MERS, but we should only have concern in your words if it's SARS?

On that note, I'm out, you win.... Not arguing.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've read hunderds of articles and pages on COVID, one reason being becuase I've always been interested in Bacteria and Viruses.

You realize that Covid-19, is a Coronavirus, just like SARS, and MERS, but we should only have concern in your words if it's SARS?

I do, which is why only time will tell if it mutates and/or is weaponized.