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I wonder if all the “the flu kills way more people every year than Coronavirus has killed” people ever saw a single hospital in America loading up refrigerator trucks with corpses on a daily basis because so many people were dying of the flu?
What this crisis has revealed is just how awful some people are at math. YES, the flu kills on average 40,000 people each season, but they don’t die en masse at hospitals and the deaths don’t increase exponentially. We have a vaccine and treatment for the flu, we have immunity to it for the most part. And STILL it kills 40,000 people and sickens millions.
Curious, I did the math of seasonal flu deaths distributed across the 19,495 cities in the US.
If each city in the US had TWO seasonal flu deaths across flu season October 1st - March 14th (164 days) that would come out to about 38,990 deaths. Let’s round up and call that 40,000.
Would anyone even notice? 2 deaths in 164 days in 19,495 cities?
We wouldn’t spend a second’s thought worrying about it. You could take 10,000 of those deaths away from 10,000 cities and add them to the other 9,495 cities over 164 days and still nobody would notice THREE flu deaths in 164 days.I absolutely suck at math and this is child’s play to figure out.
The flu does not kill this many people in one day. The flu does not kill exponentially. The flu doesn’t require refrigerator trucks for dead bodies.-------
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https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=h…- Well said mg33 ... this guy approves
https://ei.marketwat…Ramanisky2 - I can't tell you how hard it was in the recent months to argue with these people. We see the logic in that a few leaders took this path in the first stages to********
- avoid panic, and massive migrations.********
- Pneumonia kills 2000-4000 a week in good old USA. It's an oldy but a goody...robotron3k
- Bobo?PhanLo
- Yes actually. An old friend that used to run a funeral home said yes. It's just that the politicians are involved and the media is begging for viewership -toemaas
- Mixed with some social media madness. The heat wave in Chicago in '95 had way more sudden deaths and I'm sure NYC has had that shit worse thantoemaas
- Chicago. Things like this happen. People normally don.t give a shit or know about it. We live in an age of information. Who will manipulate that fact.toemaas
- 95 heat wave = 740 deaths in 5 days VS. Covid-19 = 45 deaths in 2 months.toemaas
- See where we are in 2 weeks Toemaas.PhanLo
- Soon in NY they'll be up to 100's per day.PhanLo
- Are you confused by what the word "exponential" means, toemass?Khurram
- Perhaps im just in denial of how escalated this will get. Optimistic maybe. I remember the headlines saying 3mil dead in best case scenario. Now 100ktoemaas
- were at 3k now - I dunno, I guess it's best to discuss in a couple of weeks as PhanLo says.toemaas
- my bad, 4Ktoemaas
- Well said mg33 ... this guy approves