ENLARGES
........I put together his flu figures with today's (4/3) USA coronavirus figures in a way that visually illustrates his point quite adequately.
One difference is that the flu numbers are inclusive of October to the present, whereas the coronavirus is only from February to the present. It has been about 180 days since flu season began, In this period we have averaged 227 flu deaths DAILY.
I suspect this is more of a media-fueled Demdemic rather than a pandemic, at least here in the USA. All reasonable perspective has been eroded.
The rationale that provides sheltering in place for coronavirus should also be in place for the seasonal flu......after all, does it really matter which virus causes the deaths?
Based on what we're doing now, how can we justify keeping this nation open for business only from May through September each year? Really, this has gotten nuts.
I'm an older person, I'm the one of the ones at risk, but 5 out of 6 Americans are under the age of 60. They should be at work; while people my age, with the real morbidity risks, should be the ones sheltering - not everybody.
The stakes are high. If we allow this situation to irretrievably collapse this economy, the death toll will not be in the thousands, it will be in the hundreds of millions and you rgrandchildren will be using Chinese as their primary language.
Don't think so? Think again.
Is a successful Demdemic worth that?
~John
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