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re: 1968 Flu Pandemic
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:43 pm to oilattorney4lsu
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:43 pm to oilattorney4lsu
I see you are an attorney, but I wasn't looking for an argument (although your assertion that the CFR is 3% is laughable). Just curious about the experiences of anyone who was around in 68 and remembers this.
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:48 pm to Kafka
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Pandemic is such a shitty word -- it doesn't flow rhythmically at all. WTF as wrong with epidemic?
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Epidemic is a term that is often broadly used to describe any problem that has grown out of control. An epidemic is defined as "an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population."2? An epidemic is an event in which a disease is actively spreading. In contrast, the term pandemic relates to geographic spread and is used to describe a disease that affects a whole country or the entire world.3?
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:48 pm to SloaneRanger
IHME is using a fatality rate of .5% which is the average of about 7 or 8 peer reviewed studies that have calculated the fatality rate between .6% and .3%.
Covid is spreading much faster than the flu pandemics because there are so many asymptomatic cases.
Covid is spreading much faster than the flu pandemics because there are so many asymptomatic cases.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:52 pm to SloaneRanger
How many trillions did the (totally legitimate) federal government borrow?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:55 pm to Eat Your Crow
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There weren't 16 different news channels back then telling people to panic, so no.
Really was only 3 back in those days. No panic nor word of it till it was over years later.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:56 pm to SloaneRanger
The people who saw the actual horror of total war in the 1940s did not start shitting their panties and hoarding toilet paper over something like covid. I can guarantee that.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 7:56 pm to USMEagles
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How many trillions did the (totally legitimate) federal government borrow?
Too busy spending on Vietnam and developing the welfare system. But that spending made interest rates in the late 70s interesting.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:01 pm to SloaneRanger
It didn't hit the US that significantly and it had a death rate of only .5%.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:03 pm to Shaun176
We may see a rerun of the 70s economy again this decade, the way we are spending.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:03 pm to Zappas Stache
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It didn't hit the US that significantly and it had a death rate of only .5%.
So if 100k dead isn't "that significant," what are we saying about the Covid?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:05 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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We may see a rerun of the 70s economy again this decade, the way we are spending.
I agree. Massive inflation and high interest rates are going to happen eventually.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:05 pm to SloaneRanger
early white house estimates were like 1.5-2 million potentially dead for this covid bullshite. which is what precipitated a shutdown.
the number being low does not make it and overreaction or a hoax. the number being lower than we feared means that mitigation worked. the government and the citizens of the US handled this so poorly even with mitigation efforts. imagine if we'd just let it go unchecked, it would have been beyond out of control.
the number being low does not make it and overreaction or a hoax. the number being lower than we feared means that mitigation worked. the government and the citizens of the US handled this so poorly even with mitigation efforts. imagine if we'd just let it go unchecked, it would have been beyond out of control.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:05 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:06 pm to sanora
but stay on that fox news bullshite all you want, you can't educate the unwilling.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:10 pm to TOKEN
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Interesting this isn’t the flu
Yeah it's not even close...
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:11 pm to TOKEN
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Interesting this isn’t the flu
interesting this isn't as bad as that was.
Jesus fricking Christ
Defend your fricking virus.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:12 pm to SloaneRanger
I don't know where you're getting your 100,000 number from. The Hong Kong flu only caused 34,000 deaths. LINK Also even if that 100,000 death number is correct, all of those deaths happened over a course of two years. There will likely be 100,000 deaths in the US caused by Coronavirus in two months. Not exactly the same.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:16 pm to SloaneRanger
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So if 100k dead isn't "that significant," what are we saying about the Covid?
100k dead is over 4 years. Covid is going to be killing people for at least the next year and will probably surpass the 1968 pandemic numbers.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:16 pm to Bench McElroy
CDC and Wikipedia had it at 100k. If I have overstated it, my apologies. I am curious about the recollections of anyone who was around and paying attention back then.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 8:19 pm to SloaneRanger
Just wanted to drop in and say that I wasn't born yet.
I don't get to say that much anymore.
I don't get to say that much anymore.
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