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Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)

Is the Coronavirus going to cause a pandemic in the USA?

  • Yes

    Votes: 197 43.4%

  • No

    Votes: 127 28.0%

  • Too Early to guess

    Votes: 130 28.6%
  • Total voters
    454
  • Poll closed .
WinstonSmith said:
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Less than 1k cases to almost 8k in the past 10 days. And regular flu doesnt have 3%mortality rate.
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Yeah I'm not denying that. But influenza caused a staggering number of deaths last year. Corona hasn't touched even a fraction of it, yet. Time will tell though.

I guess my point I'm trying to make is, the flu doesn't cause panic, and yet it's constantly killing more people than most other infectious diseases. The common flu is boring and doesn't make the big news.
 
Trailrider said:
Yeah I'm not denying that. But influenza caused a staggering number of deaths last year. Corona hasn't touched even a fraction of it, yet. Time will tell though.

I guess my point I'm trying to make is, the flu doesn't cause panic, and yet it's constantly killing more people than most other infectious diseases. The common flu is boring and doesn't make the big news.
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Pneumonia kills roughly 50k in the US alone every year. This is just another hot news story that will fade away like all the others have.
 
Trailrider said:
Yeah I'm not denying that. But influenza caused a staggering number of deaths last year. Corona hasn't touched even a fraction of it, yet. Time will tell though.

I guess my point I'm trying to make is, the flu doesn't cause panic, and yet it's constantly killing more people than most other infectious diseases. The common flu is boring and doesn't make the big news.
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Not saying its cause for panic. Just some basic precautionary preparation and keeping an eye on it. The Spanish Flu had a similar r0 and mortality rate and ended up infecting a third of the world and causing 50-100 million deaths. Not that you are doing so, but, dismissing it as a concern as some seem prone to do seems like folly to me. Yeah, the regular flu on a worldwide view is bad too but we don't have a working vaccine or antiviral medication for this one and its spreading pretty darn fast. What more worrisome is the reaction of our economy and society if this were to escalate. Individuals are smart. Groups are uniformed, prone to herd mentality and panic. Ex. The bread and milk table at atlanta grocery stores when 1 inch of snow predicted. Times that by a 100 and what do you get? Rarely does reason prevail when a large group of people is concerned.
 
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