re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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This is dumb. We've created vaccines for most and have decades-long immunities built up by this point. This is a NOVEL virus strain, aka NEW. If the common flu viruses were new starting this December we'd be doing the same.

If you could go back and limit social gatherings for a few weeks and close some businesses and schools to eradicate the flu before it becomes an annual epidemic, you absolutely do that.

What we're doing now could potentially be stopping another epidemic in it's tracks that would only ADD ON to the already deadly flu season that keeps hospitals busy enough. That's worth the slight inconvenience you face from not being able to watch sports on TV for a few weeks or go to a St. Patrick's day parade.

Why does this continually have to be explained to the same 2-3 dense posters over and over? shite.

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You are not addressing our point

If during the winter, you cancelled all social gatherings and school, would you not agree it would lower flu deaths and hospitalizations? Would it not lower viral pneumonia deaths and hospitalizations? Simple question

Coronavirus is a common noun. COVID-19 is a proper noun, boss.

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You act like a novel virus Has never existed until this one. As if it something super special that we have to freak out over. Over the last 300 years dozens of these have existed and only one, the Spanish flu, killed more than 2 million people WORLD WIDE. So stop with the hysterics and fear mongering.

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Try closer to 50 million

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It's too late to stop the flu

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True

But why wouldn’t we cancel silly things like basketball games, music festivals, and parades to help lower the death total and hospitalization rate?

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too late to stop the flu, it's not too late to stop this. It's early enough and few enough cases that it's actually within reach of managing and eventually eradicating with the right measures.

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i don’t think this argument is accurate.

I do think that this thing is more deadly than the flu. While both low overall this one can overwhelm our systems. We don’t want to ration care

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So why aren’t we doing that annually?

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because our Heath are system is designed to care for the annual uptick. This really is that simple.

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because our Heath are system is designed to care for the annual uptick. This really is that simple.

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Ok. So you, like me, are ok with not taking those extra steps to lower the amount of deaths

It’s not a silly point

I am proving y’all are all too afraid to simply say you are willing to accept the current death rate of the annual flu. You are willing to accept the current measures we are taking to keep the rate where it’s at

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Ok. So you, like me, are ok with not taking those extra steps to lower the amount of deaths

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look man. People die. The flu is brutal. But we have shown an ability to keep the death rate low and care for the most fragile. This thing could produce many more critical, medically complex patients. And if it means you don’t go to the CWS so some people don’t get told that they aren’t valuable enough to use limited resources on, then I am ok.

The two things can’t be looked at as you continually, repeatedly, incessantly do.