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Originally Posted by optimusREIM
Well, the authorities are being incredibly heavy handed and obtuse right now. This is as good a time as any for civil disobedience.
You know what, I'm just gonna say it. The authorities are getting it wrong. The percentage of deaths relative to hospitalizations is a negligible difference from that of the average flu. Secondly, there are epidemiologists that have openly said that we should be adopting a more Swedish-like approach here, where the only people who should isolate are those that are vulnerable people.
Lastly, since when have we flipped the model from people can make their own decisions on risk management to the state being the ultimate arbiter of who gets to be gainfully employed. Screw that! We've allowed the media to whip us into a frenzy, the models used to forecast the death tolls have been consistently wrong and revised lower and will continue to be, and worst of all, anyone wishing to have a reasonable conversation about this is immediately dismissed as a denier, as anti-science. There is nothing scientific about locking people down: I heard an epidemiologist interviewed yesterday who said that keeping children out of school was the dumbest decision we could have made. This is a manufactured crisis. The only thing we gain by isolating people is delaying the inevitable.
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This is why you should not compare coronavirus to the flu
They have some similar symptoms, but there is a stark difference between the flu and the coronavirus fueling the global pandemic.
When you look at the numbers, you start to understand why health officials have been insisting on social distancing measures to keep exposure to the virus as low as possible.
Flu kills about 0.1% of those it infects. While that doesn’t seem like much, in reality that’s still amounts to tens of thousands of people among the millions the flu infects each year.
Various reports have estimated the fatality rate of coronavirus patients ranges from less than 1% to as high as 4% among cases diagnosed so far, depending on the location.
It is good to keep in mind that there is a vaccine for the flu. Researchers around the world and here in the Atlanta metro are working around the clock conducting clinical trials to try and develop one for the coronavirus, reemphasizing the importance of social distancing.
According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, an average of 36,000 Americans die each year from the flu.
Currently, the United States has seen 15,826 coronavirus deaths since the first case in the country on reported on Jan. 20, according to the RealClear Politics coronavirus tracker.
In Georgia, the flu season general runs from as early as October to as late as May.
The latest data from the Georgia Department of Public Health shows that 83 influenza-associated deaths have been confirmed so far for the 2019-20 season, in a state of about 10 million people.
The 2017-2018 flu season turned out to be one of the worst on record, killing 145 people in the state and hospitalizing more than 3,000 people in metro Atlanta for flu-related illnesses, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The latest coronavirus figures show since the first case of the virus was reported in the state on March 2, a little more than a month ago, there have already been 379 deaths with 2,159 people hospitalized.
That means the coronavirus, in a little more than a month, has killed more than 2.5 times the number of people the flu claimed in one of the state’s worst years, 2017-2018.
The White House has estimated that the United States would see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths once we get through the worst of the virus.
During the 9/11 terror attacks, we lost just under 3,000 people. To put into perspective the magnitude of loss the country could see, that would mean we would see the number of people killed in the terror attacks every day for roughly two to three months straight.
If those projections come to fruition, that means the United States will see roughly three to seven times the number of people die from the coronavirus than from the flu in an average year.
It is important to note, that many of the people who have died from the coronavirus also had some type of pre-existing condition.
Despite not having a vaccine yet, many people do recover from the coronavirus. Johns Hopkins University has developed a worldwide tracker for the coronavirus and as of the writing of this article, nearly 25,000 people in the U.S. have recovered from the virus.
It is important to note that the recovery number is only an estimation. It’s hard to truly know the exact amount of people who have recovered from the disease because there are many people who have contracted the virus and had very mild symptoms. That means they probably never went to a doctor and their case was never reported to health officials.
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