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. - The Donald

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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 1 year ago by vfr2imc 1 year 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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– 45squared 10 points 1 year ago +12 / -2

I sound like a parrot, but my mom’s co-worker 100% had COVID-19 back in December-extreme fatigue, sob walking from one room to another, horrible headaches. Went to several doctors-multiple tests: MRI, holter monitor, influenza swabs—all negative! All this to say, I think this has been running through the US population, in my opinion, for months now and yet, the hospitals have not been “overwhelmed” in most places. As more people are tested, it’s pushing the mortality rate lower & lower. I don’t doubt it’s serious, but I don’t think it’s “put us in a voluntary depression” bad because we have to all quarantine.