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Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

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Re: Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

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inyourtenement wrote: post #26
blmsjw wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body, highly transmissible -- but didn't kill, then we would not be "shutdown"?" YES, THIS IS THE PRECEDENT FOR LITERALLY EVERY OTHER FUCKING ILLNESS KNOWN TO MAN. Why didn't people care about AIDS this much?

What is it that you think is actually going on? What conspiracy?

Easy. Incumbents always win during re-election and a stable economy. To beat Trump, you have to first tear down the economy. I know you aren't this naïve... Why do you think they always called it coronavirus instead of SARS-Coronavirus-2? They didn't want you to know it's just a mutation of the same thing we saw in 2004.

Re: Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

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Post by blmsjw »

inyourtenement wrote: post #25
blmsjw wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Are you suggesting that if this illness had all the same characteristics -- long hospital stays, long-lasting damage to the body, highly transmissible -- but didn't kill, then we would not be "shutdown"?" YES, THIS IS THE PRECEDENT FOR LITERALLY EVERY OTHER FUCKING ILLNESS KNOWN TO MAN. Why didn't people care about AIDS this much?

Because it was not transmitted by breathing. jfc.

H1N1, Ebola, and Zika, can be transmitted through the air and they are all are more deadly than Covid. Thank God Barack Obama had that miracle cure to prevent mass panic and shutdown...

Re: Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

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Post by blmsjw »

inyourtenement wrote: post #28
m0zg wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wrong hill to die on, bud. 60M people got infected with Swine Flu, and nobody even thought of shutting anything down. Why? Because it was about as deadly as regular flu. So yes, deaths are the right metric to track.

Completely irrelevant. There were an estimated 274k hospitalizations from swine flu, over the course of that year. So swine flu did not have the characteristics I specified. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

"estimated 274k hospitalizations" - remind me again how widespread the swine flu tests were in comparison to COVID?

Re: Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates

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Post by nikolay »

maxharris wrote: post #2

I am not surprised by this one bit. I've been looking at these charts daily, and it's a bit silly to need confirmation from a study: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Yes, and it's still at 4%, but, true, it fell down from over 20% in the early days, but the sample is big enough to know that it's not less than 1%.
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