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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are restless. Anyone following the actual science here understands that it’s just not particularly scary for non-elderly healthy people, and the death rate is a little higher than a bad flu. Some should shelter, but all of society should not.

Meanwhile people are becoming depressed, stir crazy, and losing everything.

Time for a course correction. [/quote]

Actually, the death numbers so far for this illness are quite high indeed.  Much higher than the flu in an average year.  Several times that level.  In fact, this year it will be the highest number cause of death in the US.  Get real.  Opening up right now is a deadly, avoidable mistake.

See NYT numbers I listed above.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-ways-to-monitor-coronavirus-outbreak-us.html

If it's down to your opinion vs science, I'll go with science especially if it will save my mother's life.[/quote]

Ok. There not that high indeed. Yes they are worse then the flu but I could do the same silly exercise you just did and say well they’re not close to Ebola so they’re not high. [/quote]

Guess I have to spell it out.  Since reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.  I've included sources.  You might consider doing the same?

US deaths due to influenza in an average year: 8200-20,000
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/qa/how-many-people-die-from-the-flu-each-year-in-the-us

US Deaths so far due to coronavirus: 50,439
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

Total deaths at the end of this year in the US will likely be more than double this number, at least.

How many people did Ebola kill in the US? 2.

We are talking about the US and more specifically the DC area.

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Death rate you moron not total number of deaths. You seem to be the person with reading comprehension issues [/quote]

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