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Old 03-28-2020, 06:38 AM
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Originally Posted by hotdog View Post
Seasonal Flu Deaths in US 2017-2018 61 Thousand. Why are we not looking at those numbers. This COV19 has death rate of 1.3% and that is almost half the season flu rate
What are we doing?
You should check your math. Using the numbers from the CDC estimate, the Flu death rate is between .06% - .12%. Which makes the COV19 death rate at least 10 times that of the flu.

So, what we are doing (at least some of us), is using some common sense.