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Old 03-28-2020, 04:09 PM   #12988
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Originally Posted by O.city View Post
There’s actually been tons of literature coming out on this.

Basically, there’s a ton of active infections that slip thru the crack because the person doesn’t even know they’re infected

That’s bad because it can seed the whole lots of people because they don’t know they’re sick

Basically we’re about to do flu season in a month with no protection
I'm not sure that is accurate. Let's look at one flu season in the US...

Symptomatic Illness 44,802,629
Medical Visits 20,731,323
Hospitalizations 808,129
Deaths 61,099

Let's pretend the flu is spread out evenly over an entire year (we know better but let's go with that). That would mean 5000+ deaths per month. We obviously aren't close to that in March.

This is not to downplay Covid-19 but to just give perspective.
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