Biden celebrates a full year of the two-weeks-to-flatten-the-curve lockdowns

Camp · 2021-03-11T20:18:52.654Z

This is the reality.

Growing old isn’t for cowards.

They could have been protected if the rest of society didn’t panic.

conan · 2021-03-11T20:20:37.285Z

Then 72 percent are ill-informed.

That’s same percentage that thinks 100’s if not 1000’s of unarmed Blacks being killed each year by police.

Jezcoe · 2021-03-11T20:21:02.747Z

Camp:

This is the reality.

Growing old isn’t for cowards.

They could have been protected if the rest of society didn’t panic.

Only if there was a robust testing regime and compliance with masking.

All Trump had to do was be halfway competent and he would be God Emperor and we would probably still have Dr Seuss.

Such a shame.

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T20:23:27.462Z

Camp:

We have found the flu comparisons were not so far off.

What year have we seen flu deaths approach half a million?

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T20:24:29.351Z

Jezcoe:

Camp:

Personal care and nursing home outbreaks were 70 percent of the fatalities.

Subtract obese and immune compromised and you get real bad flu numbers.

Yeah. If we just subtract all the people most at risk from Covid it certainly wasn’t that bad.

I wonder what flu would look like if we subtracted all the people most at risk from flu?

WuWei · 2021-03-11T20:29:31.086Z

675k

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T20:32:15.199Z

WuWei:

675k

So you had to go back to the last pandemic to get similar numbers. What is that telling you about comparing Covid to the common yearly flu?

WuWei · 2021-03-11T20:34:20.742Z

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

675k

So you had to go back to the last pandemic to get similar numbers. What is that telling you about comparing Covid to the common yearly flu?

I answered the question you asked.

It tells me we have evolved to the point of handling the current strains better. It also tells me we are subject to another pandemic at any time.

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T20:44:32.956Z

WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

675k

So you had to go back to the last pandemic to get similar numbers. What is that telling you about comparing Covid to the common yearly flu?

I answered the question you asked.

It tells me we have evolved to the point of handling the current strains better. It also tells me we are subject to another pandemic at any time.

Agreed. And comparing it to just another bad flu year is ridiculous, right? We haven’t had that sort of year since 1918.

WuWei · 2021-03-11T20:49:14.693Z

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

675k

So you had to go back to the last pandemic to get similar numbers. What is that telling you about comparing Covid to the common yearly flu?

I answered the question you asked.

It tells me we have evolved to the point of handling the current strains better. It also tells me we are subject to another pandemic at any time.

Agreed. And comparing it to just another bad flu year is ridiculous, right? We haven’t had that sort of year since 1918.

Is it? But we did have one that so far was worse.

conan · 2021-03-11T20:52:29.385Z

1957…Asian flu pandemic.

1918 pandemic was far more deadlier then Covid 19…far more. So their was no comparison between the two.

conan · 2021-03-11T20:53:18.440Z

Which I thought CDC was preparing for last 70 years and trillion dollars or so later.

conan · 2021-03-11T20:55:13.417Z

Actually we did. As I posted but to compare it with 1957.

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T20:56:24.888Z

WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

WuWei:

675k

So you had to go back to the last pandemic to get similar numbers. What is that telling you about comparing Covid to the common yearly flu?

I answered the question you asked.

It tells me we have evolved to the point of handling the current strains better. It also tells me we are subject to another pandemic at any time.

Agreed. And comparing it to just another bad flu year is ridiculous, right? We haven’t had that sort of year since 1918.

Is it? But we did have one that so far was worse.

Over a hundred years ago. If you have to reach back that far to find an example of a flu with comparable numbers, it becomes a tad disingenuous to claim “Covid is just like a bad year of the flu”

WuWei · 2021-03-11T20:59:40.521Z

Borgia_dude:

Over a hundred years ago. If you have to reach back that far to find an example of a flu with comparable numbers, it becomes a tad disingenuous to claim “Covid is just like a bad year of the flu”

Is it. How about “Covid is not as bad yet as the worst year of the flu”?

Supreme_War_Pig · 2021-03-11T21:02:58.338Z

Not only reach back that far, but reach to the last pandemic in America history!

That’s more than a tad!

Borgia_dude · 2021-03-11T21:03:52.404Z

WuWei:

Borgia_dude:

Over a hundred years ago. If you have to reach back that far to find an example of a flu with comparable numbers, it becomes a tad disingenuous to claim “Covid is just like a bad year of the flu”

Is it. How about “Covid is not as bad yet as the worst year of the flu”?

If your listener knows you are harkening back to the Spanish Flu, go for it!

conan · 2021-03-11T21:53:35.099Z

Why are you all ignoring 1957–1958 influenza pandemic.

In 1957 there were about 3 billion people with 2 to 4 million deaths globally due to Asian flu pandemic…it originated in Guizhou province of China.

en.wikipedia.org

1957–1958 influenza pandemic

The 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 that originated in Guizhou in Southern China. The number of excess deaths caused by the pandemic is estimated to be 1–4 million around the world (1957–1958 and probably beyond), making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history. A decade later, a reassorted viral strain H3N2 further caused the Hong Kong flu pandemic (1968–1969). The first cases were reported in Guizhou of southern China, in 1956 or in earl...

Today with about 7.5 billion people there is little over 2.5 million deaths.

And again in 1968/69 it reared it ugly head and killing 1 to 4 million people globally.

en.wikipedia.org

Hong Kong flu

The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus. The virus was descended from H2N2 (which caused the Asian flu pandemic in 1957–1958) through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes are reassorted to form a new virus. The first recorded instance ...

These are wiki…a lib source of information.

Now it’s time to edit em and rewrite history.

Sknyluv · 2021-03-12T00:06:24.526Z

Are we back on the “just like the flu” nonsense?
Jesus Christ.

gooddad409 · 2021-03-12T00:28:42.286Z

STODR:

PeterGriffin:

STODR:

Correct Fsuci should had gotten out of the way… What is worse someone not trained it following advice or the trained person giving him bad advice

Fauci is not the problem. He’s a national hero. He’s being attacked because he had the temerity to put distance between himself and Trump.

He’s more of a National Problem than hero.