Scientists say the coronavirus is at least as deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic

I kinda wondered about this; many advancements have been made.


more at link

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Those scientists are smoking crack if they say the corona virus is as deadly as the spanish flu. Because almost a 3rd of the world was infected with it and around 50 million people died from it. We are nowhere near that and we have around four times the global population as we did back then and people are traveling around the world much more than they did back then. To compare the two is ****ing laughable.


https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-res...emic-h1n1.html

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What kind of scientist came up with that crap. For the record...;Political scientists are not equivalent to Medical scientist.

As Jamesrage pointed out, the Spanish flu of 1919 killed almost 1/3 of the worlds population. This back when fewer people traveled like today.

Covid-19 doesn't even come close.

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Inected, not killed a 1/3 of the world's population. It killed 50 million people.

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The more we find out about this COVID-19 the less impressive it's threat becomes.

And yet;

The more we find out about this COVID-19 the more the press and the opposing politics infect....., I'm sorry inject, the population with fear.

Children are the least likely to transmit this disease yet we deny them normal school experiences. At the same time we have purposely sent infected persons to old folks homes, containing the most venerable members of our population.

What kind of following the "science" is that?

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I suspect that shortly after the election this covid-19 nonsense will be over with.Regardless if Trump wins or loses the democrats won't have any need to use covid fear mongering to keep the economy screwed up. So after the elections an "effective" vaccine will magically be discovered and we will go back to life as normal. Unless those in office wish to use this to try to exert more power for themselves or try to use this covid-19 nonsense to screw China.


These are the same people that try to tell you that a biological man can be a woman or that climate change is mostly man made instead of something that has been naturally occurring for billions of years regardless of how severe or minute those changes are. So yes it would make perfect sense for them to basically shove sick people in with those whose health is compromised.

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"“....What we want people to know is that this has 1918 potential,” lead author Dr. Jeremy Faust said in an interview, adding that the outbreak in New York was at least 70% as bad as the one in 1918 when doctors didn’t have ventilators or other advances to help save lives like they do today. “This is not something to just shrug off like the flu....”"

Please note the highlighted.
this guy is looking at the WORSE hit area and projecting from that?
that's good science?
It's like looking at worse player on a team and assuming that the whole team is like the worse team they ever played.

Also even at worse it's "70%".
and correct me if I'm wrong but i don't think ventilators saved tons of people, they prolonged life of some, but not much more.
But even 70% ain't "As deadly"

Also the 1918 flu "pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased sixfold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but 92% of deaths still occurred in people under 65...." wiki
while this covid1984 is more like normal flu, being more deadly to those above 65 and with preexisting conditions.

So no it's NOT, as the headline reads "at least as deadly".
or even as the Dr actually says"POTENTIALLY" as deadly.

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Some people love to keep the public in fear.

Muslims' are gonna kill us all!
Irans' gonna kill us all!
Russias' gonna kill us all!
Climate Change is gonna kill us all!
Covid is gonna kill us all!

reminds me of the General MacArthur quote,

Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:6-8

Scientists are hardly a monolith of thought. To be so they would not be scientists. As a rule, each must be a skeptic about their fellow "scientist." It's called the "Scientific Method" and includes a reasoned speculation followed by peer reviews.

And at the end of the day, it is only generally accepted thought. Not necessarily the actual, factual, truth.

And although some are highly qualified in their particular field, none are actually "experts" on everything science.

When scientist collude with politicians, it is incumbent on one to be especially skeptical.


Be careful when trusting an expert his/her opinion on a subject. Remember that "experts" built the Titanic; amateurs built the Ark!

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