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Old 05-11-2020, 09:29 AM
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Unfortunately there are way too many scared and paranoid people around right now. They have bought into this government and media generated over-reaction to a virus. Based on testing we now know that this virus will have about the same mortality rate as the flu that comes around every year, meaning that this whole thing was unnecessary. Some confrontations are inevitable as the paranoid want you to be like them.
Why does everyone compare this to the flu ? It's not only the higher "mortality rate" that makes this dangerous it's the fact that it is twice as contagious over a shorter period of time:

Flu deaths vs. coronavirus deaths: These reasons show why Covid-19 can be more dangerous than the flu - CNN

Q&A: Similarities and differences – COVID-19 and influenza.
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