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Which makes it more or less identical to flu. No, it makes it about 5x worse than a typical flu season (10x worse than what America is seeing this year).
5x worse than a typical flu season. We have atypical flu seasons all the time.
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There's this weird social media thirst for this to become the next spanish flu. My family (midwest conservatives) fall into one of two camps: 1. This was sent by Jesus and is a prelude to the rapture, literally. 2. The spanish flu happened 100 years ago, and 100 is a big round number, so this is going to do the same things. It's very strange and surreal around the home town right now. Many elderly are openly embracin…
My own personal opinion is that the Great Recession and it's repercussions (inequality, deaths of despair, the hallowing out of middle American economies, the opioid crises, Flint water crises, etc) over last 10+ years have really ramped up a zeitgeist of inevitable doom. I don't really blame anyone in the Midwest for being full of doom and gloom, because for the most part that's all they have known for the last deca…
While some of them might still have kids, or act 'irrationally' in relation to that belief, it's there, and I can't help but feel it's going to have huge effects over time as these people become politically active and vote.
To be clear, that's putting aside my beliefs on these issues. Just describing what I'm seeing.
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My reasoning for thinking this is worthy of panic: I recently moved to China. The PRC has good numbers (internally) and knows more about COVID-19's severity and risk profile than anyone else. And, on the ground, the PRC is putting the entire country on what amounts to wartime footing (in a way that's unimaginable to most HN readers), to the point that it's willing to sacrifice a quarter or more worth of economic prod…
I have the polar opposite view, China is not transparent with their numbers, and their response is hamfisted because they aren't competent and a lot of it is theater (typical of communist regimes.) It is possible that in many years more people will die from cancer from their irresponsible spraying than the actual virus. Western countries are also traditionally cleaner, and things like "gutter grease" aren't common. I…
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Conversely, there's a group of people who like to show off how sensible and level-headed they are by being able to rise above the concerns of other people. They do this by handwaving away problems rather than engaging with the evidence. The threat of nuclear war was (and is) real. The mass reduction of insects is well-documented. The threat of rising CO2 levels is one of the most-studied phenomena in science. > "You…
>Conversely, there's a group of people who like to show off how sensible and level-headed they are by being able to rise above the concerns of other people. Quite right. Let us at HackerNews strive to be part of that group. ;) There are plenty of other sites for the chicken-littles. In any case, I don't expect to persuade you... But a couple months from now, when Covid-19 is but a memory and we're off with the next i…
Still backing this claim, 11 days later?
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>Conversely, there's a group of people who like to show off how sensible and level-headed they are by being able to rise above the concerns of other people. Quite right. Let us at HackerNews strive to be part of that group. ;) There are plenty of other sites for the chicken-littles. In any case, I don't expect to persuade you... But a couple months from now, when Covid-19 is but a memory and we're off with the next i…
> But a couple months from now, when Covid-19 is but a memory ... Still backing this claim, 11 days later?
And I hope lurquer will not find themselves in the situation they suggested above.
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>Conversely, there's a group of people who like to show off how sensible and level-headed they are by being able to rise above the concerns of other people. Quite right. Let us at HackerNews strive to be part of that group. ;) There are plenty of other sites for the chicken-littles. In any case, I don't expect to persuade you... But a couple months from now, when Covid-19 is but a memory and we're off with the next i…
> But a couple months from now, when Covid-19 is but a memory ... Still backing this claim, 11 days later?
Check back in 37 days.