So it would stand to reason that if all this social distancing and shutting down of businesses and banning of guns will help save us from the Chinese virus, it should do the same for other similar viruses like the flu.
I’d be interested to see the effect on the number of flu cases as compared to the effects of these policies on the number of Chinese virus cases.
If there was a relatively small reduction in flu cases then it would mean that these drastic measures were largely ineffective at stopping the spread of any virus. So when they try to tell us months from now how they saved us from the Chinese virus we can call bullshit if the flu numbers were not effected.
That would make sense, although I imagine that there would historically be at least some residual spread of the flu well into spring. If that’s the case then that should be significantly reduced if what they’re telling us is true.
There is and was. This was addressed today in the briefing. We caught the tail end of the peak flu season with Wuhan Flu simultaneously.
It might be reduced. But don't miss the point of the distancing. Everyone is going to get Chinavirus basically, at some point. There is a pretty good chance you were already exposed to it. They are simply trying to make sure EVERYONE doesn't get it within a month, and overload the health system. The flu is more manageable, since there are vaccines, and it hits over the course of several months. There might have been overreaction to it, who knows. They had terrible data to work with, WHO was covering for China, who is still lying. There's no way they have 0 new cases. And the Left saw it as an opportunity to hurt Trump.