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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 2, 2020 15:20:38 GMT
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Post by fredhutch on Apr 2, 2020 21:18:01 GMT
Everybody wan go to heaven.
Nobody wan be dead.
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Post by mrdave100 on Apr 2, 2020 21:29:16 GMT
More than a few people including highly respected doctors pointed that out before the whole quarantine thing started.
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Post by macky on Apr 4, 2020 0:29:19 GMT
The doctors may very well have pointed out that other epidemics have vastly superior numbers of deaths attributed to them, but that's where any comparisons end.
For a start, this pandemic hasn't finished and is still growing, so any comparison number-wise with pandemics that have come and gone is premature to the extreme.
Smallpox - seriously ? Over thousands of years and must only be a very rough guess.
Black Death - over four years and at a time when "western" medicine was primitive at the least, sanitary arrangements in towns were non-existent (people threw their shit into the street) etc
Spanish Flu - over two years and shortly after a war that affected populations in Europe everywhere, one way or another and depleted resources. The first virus was discovered in 1892, not
long to develop antidote methods, even if known how.
HIV/Aids - over nearly 40 years. Not known to be contagious by coughing i.e. through the air. Not requiring 2 metres distance, nor gloves nor mask, for "normal every day contact. Rather it requires more "internal close contact" as far as I know. Very safe in comparison to the present virus. Takes a series of very deliberate actions, in comparison to random contact
for no other reason than one was there in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Cholera - number estimated over a 24 year period.
Asian flu - two year estimation period. Look at the figures again if covid-19 lasts that long.
Russian flu - two year period. Largely upon a rural-based community that is/was hard to move around in and has some pretty savage winters. Certainly viruses were unknown, let alone identified.
Hong Kong flu - two years, Chinese stacked together living at close quarters to each other sideways and on top of each other. Rudimentary medical/emergency services.
Swine flu - may turn out to be a comparable time-frame, for all we know. The closest comparison so far, but uncertain as yet.
After the present Virus entry, the last three "comparison's" numbers are already surpassed in less than six months.
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