Mccage
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The narrative is driving facts rather than facts driving the narrative. The 2017-2018 flu season produced 60 million cases and 70,000 deaths in the US alone. IIRC, about 900,000 Americans were hospitalized. That was a particularly bad year. This year was on its way to being a "mild" year with possibly less than 30,000 deaths from the flu.Sorry but afraid you're behind on this. The Brits have completely changed their position. They are on the verge of a complete lockdown. It was a British epidemiological study released last Sunday that changed our administration's plans when it predicted that if England didn't change course they would have 250,000 deaths with the total collapse of their health care system and we would have 1 million dead. That is why the President completely changed course this past Monday.
oh good Lord, drama queen much?
The narrative is driving facts rather than facts driving the narrative. The 2017-2018 flu season produced 60 million cases and 70,000 deaths in the US alone. IIRC, about 900,000 Americans were hospitalized. That was a particularly bad year. This year was on its way to being a "mild" year with possibly less than 30,000 deaths from the flu.
With those facts in mind... convince me this panic isn't a narrative driven overreaction. It is like the "emperor's new clothes". No one dares point out he has none.... just like no one seems willing to say this isn't the second coming of the black plague... or even the Spanish flu.
yeah I intend to purchase mine as well. I (poorly I might add), was really trying to put it out there to VN to get a feel for how many season ticket holders here were going to buy theirs if or when they are made available even though I wonder if the normal dates will be altered.
The flu season starts in October so those deaths have been adding up for 6 months vs 3 months for CV19. The US is just now getting into the teeth of this thing. The numbers may be comparable by June, but hopefully I’m wrong.
To your point of not being dependent on other countries, we can't totally do that, but that is what Trump has been trying to do, bring American jobs back to America, by increasing tariffs on our trading partners to create a more level playing field for the U.S. We have had a trade deficit with other countries for way too many years. Maybe at one time we could allow this, but those countries have caught up with us, and passed us in many instances, to the point of having a huge advantage over our manufacturing.Every virus runs its course. The French have already produced an effective treatment regime that is thought to be killing the virus in humans. They are so convinced that it is working that they say it is malpractice not to use it.
The curve on this is already falling in China and South Korea. The smartest thing we did was to close down our links to China to keep the numbers down here. As soon as we have people that have developed the antibodies from the infection we will also see a decline. You also have to wonder if the virus has not already been present in people before now and they thought they had flu like symptoms. We do not know for sure because no one has been testing for it and the testing we are doing now is showing cases were already present in the population, especially in the larger urban areas.
One course of action I do not understand at this point is setting up the temporary hospitals in the large metro areas. Who is going to take care of those additional patients? The existing medical personnel are already stretched to the limit in the clinics and hospitals.
The one lesson that we have to learn from this is that we should never be dependent on any other country for our industry and manufacturing output. We have to have the same attitude with this as we had with oil in the last century.
I do have to wonder about the panic when so many more people die with the flu this year in the US.
The narrative is driving facts rather than facts driving the narrative. The 2017-2018 flu season produced 60 million cases and 70,000 deaths in the US alone. IIRC, about 900,000 Americans were hospitalized. That was a particularly bad year. This year was on its way to being a "mild" year with possibly less than 30,000 deaths from the flu.
With those facts in mind... convince me this panic isn't a narrative driven overreaction. It is like the "emperor's new clothes". No one dares point out he has none.... just like no one seems willing to say this isn't the second coming of the black plague... or even the Spanish flu.
Less than 500 total deaths in the USA this morning. This is a month after hearing and reading of our doom. Drudgereport cranks out numbers in their headlines of "millions" yet all of China only had 80,000 total cases? Spare me the hysteria and lack of rationality exhibited by a politically driven media.
Less than 500 total deaths in the USA this morning. This is a month after hearing and reading of our doom. Drudgereport cranks out numbers in their headlines of "millions" yet all of China only had 80,000 total cases? Spare me the hysteria and lack of rationality exhibited by a politically driven media.
This is the key IMO. The finger pointing and wanting to be right needs to take a back seat right now.