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Old 20th Mar 2020, 04:38
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xyze
 
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"So why didn't we have travel bans, border closures and mass panic with these numbers in 2019,2018,2017................etc etc etc"

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Accepting a mean fatality rate of 4% (it is likely more see: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ ) then in the US alone (pop. 327.2 million) there would be 13 MILLION deaths during this pandemic (i.e. the total number of deaths from flu in the same period would be 0.2% of the total deaths from COVID-19).

Now expand that out to 80% of the population of earth (which will be the number infected eventually) and you start to see why our leaders are doing what they are doing.



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