The positive benefits of protests and indoor political rallies.

You are more likely to be murdered on the streets of Minneapolis than die of Coronavirus there.

I listened to "the Daily" podcast this week regarding updates on CV19. Few highlights from the physician on the show:

A. Latest data suggests 1/3 of the population is asymptomatic

B. Even if you have the Covid antibodies you may still not be immune to it. Even if you are immune, how long you remain immune is unknown.

C. They studied eight different pandemics from the last two hundred years or so and in each of them there was a much more serious second wave.

D. Droplets can have an "aerosol" quality which means it can be spread in close proximity even if someone is just talking to you (not sneezing or coughing). Hence, the six foot rule. Also, these aerosol components can hang in the air for a while so being indoors with others is still concerning even if you're respecting social distancing rules because there isn't any wind to sweep away the particulate matter.

So just like the flu. You can catch it every year, sometimes twice in the same season, even with vaccines, and tens of thousands die, including kids, but we don't shut down a damn thing.

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So just like the flu. You can catch it every year, sometimes twice in the same season, even with vaccines, and tens of thousands die, including kids, but we don't shut down a damn thing.

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And this will become the new narrative AFTER the Democrats get complete control of Congress and the Presidency. Of course they will say that the findings are based on NEW data and then if a Republican by some miracle does win the White House again, then there will be yet again NEW data suggesting that quarantine is again necessary. This is how you can roll when you control every form of media/communication.

First they said 23 Clemson players have covid19 and no symptoms.
Now they’re saying an unknown number of LSU players have been quarantined for testing positive.
Wow what a coincidence the two teams that played for the national championship this January that are the freshest on the brain are now “testing positive“ and stopping practice as soon as it started.

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So just like the flu.

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Coronavirus has no vaccine currently and has a higher mortality rate. Also we know way more about the flu. Thanks for playing

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Does it tho? Does it really?

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The only reason Covid-19 has a higher mortality rate is that the average age of the people who have died from it is about 80 and that age group has a higher normal death rate than the virus. In sharp contrast, the average age of those who died from H1V1 was 40 and over 1800 children died from the Swine Flu yet there we no widespread school closures. Meanwhile, I just looked at the latest CDC data and 26 children 14 and younger have died from Covid-19.

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Most experts expect that gathering to produce an infection spike.

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Maybe not. His predictions of a packed house and overflow crowd didn't pan out.

Of course, considering how much Trump downplayed COVID-19, why require attendees to sign a waiver protecting the campaign from responsibility for any illness? I mean, this has all been a left wing conspiracy, right?

Swine flu hardly registered with me. It just wasn't a big deal.

CDC - US Swine flu deaths - 12,469 total.

Johns Hopkins - US COVID-19 deaths - 120,044 and counting.

Our country suffered less than 5% of the world's swine flu fatalities. We are suffering over 25% of the world's COVID-19 fatalities.

During the swine flue epidemic Americans were dying at a rate of less than 700 per month. COVID-19 is killing 20,000 Americans monthly.

What idiot downvotes reality?

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Swine flu hardly registered with me. It just wasn't a big deal.

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Could it be that it didn’t register because no one was making a big deal about it, even in the media?

Also, I think you are missing the point. We were talking lockdowns long before we had thousands dead.

We also didn’t have a push to classify all deaths as due to swine flu even when that wasn’t the reason for the death like we do/did for coronavirus.

We have tens of thousands of flu-related deaths each and every year and there has never been a response to the flu like we have had to this virus even though most of the deaths are from a subset of our population and many of those are due to terrible decisions in leftist northeastern states that decided to put the sick in assisted living homes where risk of death was greater for everyone else.