We are in the first wave of a new virus. A virus, to survive, becomes more spreadable as it evolves, which is very fast. The reason ebola wasn't successful is it killed people before they could spread it to enough people. This disease is successful because it's finding ways to transmit itself without killing people quickly. It started with bats shiting on pangolins in a farmers market in china and now its killed how many Americans?

You just don't know shit about viruses.

if you like violins; the second wave of "spanish"(which was american btw) flu was a mutation, more lethal and killing young ones.
especially pregnant women

I'm not reading or following the news.
What's new with covid? Did it increase to more than 0.2% mortality rate which was the number that caused a massive panic and lockdown?


Thank god 2020 is the first year in past 100 years without seasonal flu.
Every year we have a seasonal flu killing more people than covid19 did so far.
Imagine if we had seasonal flu this year on top of covid.... wait.....

CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season.

Without** any shutdown/distancing/PPE measures

17-18' was a terrible year if i remember.

This has very little to do with the incredibly low fatality rate observed in children. Viruses tend to get less fatal over time, not more. You are scaremongering and setting children back years so that you can score political points on the president. Shame.

Absolutely, I won’t forget that one it was my first time as a senior in ICU and it seemed like every asthmatic in Detroit regardless of age was coming in requiring a vent.

CDC estimates that influenza was associated with 45 million illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths during the 2017–2018 influenza season. This burden was higher than any season since the 2009 pandemic and serves as a reminder of how severe seasonal influenza can be.

Most people dont get the difference between the seasonal influenza and the common cold.

What I dont understand is how people can still stick to the "it's just another flu" talking point. Even in one of its worst years, the seasonal influenza killed 61k people while being allowed to spread unchecked. Covid has already killed 150k+ (and counting) in spite of massive mitigation and containment efforts like social distancing and shutting entire industries down, and it looks like it will easily break the 200k mark before everything is said and done.

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He said kids were immune and one died a day later. Making fake claims for political points is what is shameful not telling the truth.

You have to be a complete idiot to deny it. One of my coworkers said that it would be over when the election is over still though lol. She is ofc a small white town Trump supporter.