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In reply to the discussion: Some folks tell me the common flu is worse than this new virus [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)49. The flu kills more people. But the COVID-19 rate is higher,
though some experts have questioned the COVID-19 rate due to the shitshow virus management of Chinese officials. The actual number of people that got exposed could be possibly in the millions, just most simply never got seriously ill.
If you look at the rate of deaths after hospitalization, you are right, the flu is deadlier by around 2x. The issue is the gross pollution of the COVID-19 data, so no one can really say, even the posters that are bashing you over numbers.
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left-of-center2012
Feb 2020
OP
The death rate for common flu virus is way higher than the death rates of the Coronavirus..
magicarpet
Feb 2020
#11
Your math analysis sucks. 2000/75000 is more than 14000/26000000 COVID-19 is far more deadly.
LonePirate
Feb 2020
#14
You think they quarantined entire cities because the virus is so 'harmless'. We are fucked with
Demsrule86
Feb 2020
#48
You have it completely backwards. The fatality rate from the coronavirus is much higher than it is
onenote
Feb 2020
#16
Not true. The fatality rate for flu is 0.1%. So far, for the coronavirus they're saying 2%.
pnwmom
Feb 2020
#68
Then I stand corrected on the number locked down, but I stand behind all else that I wrote.
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#74
if this is no big deal then why is Japan closing ALL schools for a month? Saudis cancell the
beachbumbob
Feb 2020
#36
We closed our schools in my county during the flu season a couple of weeks ago. It happens just
LiberalArkie
Feb 2020
#53
You ever hear of an US state closing ALL their schools during flu season for a mont? I would like to
beachbumbob
Feb 2020
#71
COVID-19 is a big unknown, mostly because of the shitshow Chinese officials ran.
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#58
Remind me how many cruise ships have had people on them with the Coronavirus?
PoindexterOglethorpe
Feb 2020
#66
Please be very careful at your age. It's the possible pneumonia which is the killer.
Baked Potato
Feb 2020
#39
Watch what experts (CDC, WHO) say and what governments do, not what "some folks tell me".
meadowlander
Feb 2020
#57