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I'm going to make 2 predictions: (1) COVID-19 is no more dangerous than the common flu except for the fact that no one has immunity to it yet; and (2) the efforts to "flatten the curve" at the expense of the entire Nation's economy are absurd and will turn out to have done almost nothing.
posted ago by vfr2imc ago by vfr2imc +902 / -0

When this is all sorted out and we have the spare test kits and a couple years to monitor COVID-19, we're going to find that infected virtually everyone and it has a mortality rate close to the common flu of about 0.1%.

In addition, and we'll find this out a lot sooner than later, we will find that all this economy killing stuff: the self-quarantining, social-distancing, school closings, restaurant closings, daycare closings.... we're going to find that it didn't do anything to "flatten the curve" in any substantial manner.

So we are currently killing our economy and reducing our ability to respond to the impending needs for a snake-oil cure that apparently nearly every world leader has purchased.

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– NormaJeanRocks 21 points ago +22 / -1

And hurt Trumps 2020 bid

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– HockeyMom4Trump 2 points ago +2 / -0

And increase unemployment.

They did not want to run on the amazing economy. Whatever it takes to destroy it, that’s where they are.

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