Originally Posted by
Ozgrade3
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"Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the
CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000. " Apparently this happens every year, in all countries, thousands upon thousands of people die from common flu. So why didn't we have travel bans, border closures and mass panic with these numbers in 2019,2018,2017................etc etc etc.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-...lated/11406980
https://www.health.com/condition/col...flu-every-year
Regular flu seasons have a death rate of about 0.1%. Coronavirus is currently sitting at 4%, and is expected to average about 3.4%.
The last pandemic that had a comparable death rate was the Spanish Flu in 1918, which is estimated to have killed between 17m and 100m people, when the world's population was a fraction of what it is now. That's what governments are trying to prevent.
I'm not loving sitting on my hands at the moment, and am worried about my family's financial position once my leave runs out, and my job if this drags on. But the amount of completely counterfactual denialism in this thread, and the thought that I might be counting on some of you to process information and make decisions in the cockpit with me, actually worries me more.