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Althebartender 13 points ago +27 / -14

A few people in my hometown were infected, and family working at a hospital have personally witnessed 30 additional cases.

It is serious, and people think they are getting better and suddenly they're on a ventilator. I don't like how most of this sub thinks its some big hoax, it's not. People are actually dying.

It does have the ability to get worse, and we should keep our eyes on it. Do I think it's worse then the annual flu right now? No. But it definitely has the potential to be.

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Kolob 6 points ago +6 / -0

OP said not worse than the flu right now, not that it would never be. There is nuance there

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Althebartender 1 point ago +4 / -3

I'm talking about specifically in America. Its serious in other countries, there's more than 300+ deaths a day in Italy right now. I think right now, its like the flu, but as things develop we could see many changes.

flu's kill people sure, but the pneumonia which is easily caused by this virus is the concern.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +2 / -1

Pandemic doesn't have the definition you think:

An epidemic that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents, or worldwide.

This epidemic has escalated beyond a few localized regions, especially in Europe.

Seasonal influenza is usually not considered a pandemic unless the outbreak originates from a new strain of animal-to-human transmission, and humans have limited or no immunity.

However, COVID-19 is not an influenza virus. It's in a different classification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_(molecular_biology)#RNA_sense_in_viruses

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papaguns 10 points ago +10 / -0

of course it's serious. look, we KNOW it's bad. it's a weaponized version of the cold and it's killed a few thousand people. the only reason that it's more frightening than the flu is that we don't have a vaccine for it yet. why? because it's a constructed virus.

does it have the potential to be worse than the flu? nah. I don't think so. the flu has killed around 40,000 people in the usa, this season alone. the corona virus? not even 100 so far and it's in 49 states.

chances are, you've already had it and passed it off as the flu or a bad cold.

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NormaJeanRocks 2 points ago +2 / -0

And we HAVE a vaccine for the flu and that many people still die of the flu...hmm

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murkdollasign 1 point ago +2 / -1

Dude this strain was literally just discovered less than 3 months ago on the other side of the planet. It takes a little bit to spread across the globe.

Also, the flu has a mortality rate of 0.1%

Covid is 10 times that.

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Thrasymachus -1 points ago +1 / -2

You claim he's pulling shit from his ass but proceed to immediately insist that real metrics are actually wildly different from estimates based on data collected for weeks from multiple examined outbreaks, on the basis of "I promise". That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.