Meanwhile back at the Ranch.......
From the CDC Two days ago;
26 million cases of Influenza
250,000 hospitalizations
14,000 Deaths
Where is all the whimpering Statistics, Rumors, and Fear Mongering?
Obviously the Cabal & Pentavirate must be silencing the masses here too!?
Several reasons.
People are used to the flu, so it is less scary to them.
There are vaccines for flu.
Death rate for flu is 0.05%. It is unlikely for anyone you know to die from flu.
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Here's why nCov is a big deal.
nCov currently has an R0 (infection rate) about the same as flu.
Death rate for nCov (by China numbers, which have some caveats) is 20-40 times higher that of flu.
So, if 26 million people in the US got nCov (which is the concern, because of R0), we would have 7.5 million hospitalizations (well, the hospital system would collapse before that), and 400,000 deaths (about the same number as US citizens who died in WWII). In the world, there would be maybe 10 million deaths (or worse, because if that happened, most people aren't going to get any hospital attention).
Maybe it ends up like SARS or MERS and peters out before it is a world-wide crisis. But currently you cannot at all count on that.
That's why there is action being taken regarding nCov that is far more drastic than you have ever seen regarding flu.