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Yeah, let's downplay the pandemic, shall we?So typically 20,000 Americans die from the flu every year and so far 3,000 have died from Covid 19. Hopefully it won't end up being as bad as some people are saying.
I can not overstate my disbelief that people like @Hack are still on this 'oh, well it's not flu bad' as if the flu has killed more Americans this year than covid19. As if the hospitalization rate is higher with the flu than it is with covid19. As if we don't have a global pandemic because of covid19 and not the flu.
There is no herd immunity for covid19 so it could theoretically infect the entire population.
There is no vaccine, whereas, the flu has annual shots.
Covid19 has symptoms that can persist for over a month, unlike the flu which typically clear after a week.
Covid19 has 10 times the hospitalization rate of the flu and roughly 20% of covid19 infections result in serious symptoms that require medical intervention.
Covid19 can be transmitted without the infected showing symptoms making it much more difficult to control.
The fatality rate of covid19 is 20-30 times higher than the fatality rate of the flu.
Covid19 spreads significantly faster than the flu.
Now consider the multiplicative effect that all of these attributes have for the virus. Compared to the flu, covid19 spreads faster; kills far more; is harder to control; requires use of far more medical resources; for far longer a period of time; has no effective treatment, and can infect possibly the entire population. If left unchecked, covid19 is far more likely to overwhelm the country's medical infrastructure. Additionally, when medical infrastructure is overwhelmed, the fatality rate will skyrocket because we know 20% of cases require medical intervention.
It doesn't take a genius to piece it all together. This virus is potentially devastating if containment measures fail. Far far far worse than the seasonal flu.
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