re: Current score. Corona vs flu

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They also say that the virus is on a downturn

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I’d say they’re lying about this, too. They have 1.4 billion people. It would be ridiculous to speculate that even an authoritarian government could control this highly contagious virus.

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Let's say it's 10,000 dead in China in about a month. That's still far, far, far below the total number of deaths in any given month, at flu season, during any given year in the United States from the common flu.

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Stop beating the flu drum. This is a coronavirus, and a new one, at that. It’s absolutely silly to speculate on its end characteristics. We have to operate on what we definitely know about it: It’s extremely contagious; it’s deadly dangerous for a significant portion of the population; and, a vaccine cannot be made for a coronavirus.

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Also, Italy as has been mentioned is chock-full of elderly individuals. And have you even been to Italy? It's more akin to the Middle East in terms of medical care than it is to Anglo-Saxon modeled nations.

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Most importantly, it’s an open society. We can believe the numbers they’re reporting.