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Bigsweaties 70 points ago +71 / -1

It's like that all over the country. Wuhan China Kung Flu cases bring federal dollars. All kinds of incentives to lie. These numbers have been muddles from the get go. We have been straight played.

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Thep1mp -2 points ago +3 / -5

It’s literally not, but that’s okay. It’s similar as far as symptoms and mortality.

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PepesCovfefe 2 points ago +3 / -1

How is it not?

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EatDirtCommiePinko 6 points ago +9 / -3

It's definitely different, but it isn't the end of the world. Most people do not have any significant difficulty with it. However, for a small number of people, it causes serious problems that haven't been seen together while caused by one disease before (such as the clotting issue that's extremely dangerous, and that is not present with influenza).

However, it is clear that the number of deaths has not warranted the extent of the lockdown and suppressive measures.

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Grief 8 points ago +9 / -1

You're right, it's not the same. If you remove all the deaths that had nothing to do with it then it's less severe than the flu.

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PepesCovfefe 5 points ago +5 / -0

👏 👏 👏

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logicallyevil 1 point ago +1 / -0

Its even "better" than the flu if you really look into it. It has an almost zero impact on children. The flu goes after everyone and spreads like wildfire through kids.

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Paek -16 points ago +7 / -23

I know a few people that have died from this but know nobody who has died from influenza. Our hospital has had 24 deaths from this and usually has 1-2 from influenza by this time. I think it's about 5x worse than influenza. Definatley not worth all the measures taken. But to say it's no different than the flu is hyperbole

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Friendly_B 10 points ago +11 / -1

I know one person who has died from this too, and while I question if he was one of the many "non-Covid" Covid-counted deaths, personally I believe it was Covid / Wuflu. He was in his 80s, trapped in a nursing home, and had a very compromised immune system. I think he would have been safer being allowed to leave the nursing home and being out in the sun.

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TonsOfSalt 12 points ago +12 / -0

Yes, the virus is very good at taking out people who have already exceeded average life expectancy, and lots of states sent positive patients to nursing homes which ensured that happened.

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footinmouth 1 point ago +1 / -0

So with a new virus it is pretty important to know if the person who died had the Kung Flu. Death certificates are not one word either, they list primary cause and complicating factors. It may be weird to have someone who got hit by a bus having their death certificate list that they also had corona virus. However, part of the virus being novel is we don't know what it can do, especially if the person is asymptomatic. Viruses can do weird things neurologically, like rabies causes a fear of water. It could be possible that we see a massive increase in misc accidents with people who are asymptomatic infected because the virus is slowing reaction time.

Now scientists are separating all this data out. Age, gender, race, ect, as well as complications directly related to the virus vs. conditions exacerbated by the virus vs. had the virus (this is where we could see an increase in car accidents for example). This is how scientist and medical staff view it.

The news just takes # of deaths and reports just that. No break down.

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Grief 5 points ago +7 / -2

Quick question - was your hospital forcing people on ventilators and if so did you report them for murder?

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PepesCovfefe 3 points ago +3 / -0

Spicy!

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Paek 1 point ago +1 / -0

Your comment is so offensive and retarded that the only way I can reason through your comment is if you are trying to turn people off to Trump and his supporters.