What do you call 130,000 deaths, with just 10% of the USA population being infected? The CV19 virus has another 300 million more people it could infect in the USA.Give up. You're not going to convert a Mormon missionary or a flat earther. The majority here believe even Governor Abbott's steps to save lives, the economy, and Republican seats in the legislature are unreasonable. Abbott is a wise man btw. He realizes old people vote, and when their husbands and wives and friends start dying they're going to be mad as hell.Originally Posted by adav8s28
How can you have such poor reading comprehension?Ooohh, I see. So your whole idiotic argument is based on the bad assumption that we will be able to treat this next year better than we treat the flu.
I'm obviously not talking about cumulative deaths next year, but the yearly total...which if we figure out how to treat this thing could easily be like a regular flu season with a similiar IFR in the second year - since this is a NOVEL coronavirus. What we call the flu was much deadlier until we learned to treat it over the years, you simpleton.
Did you get your ass beat in school alot? Originally Posted by friendly fred
6 people died of COVID in Harris county yesterday. Despite an almost all encompassing mask order. No reporting of how many were rioters.Abbott only just issued the "all encompassing" mask order. The people who died in Harris County yesterday caught CV-19 two weeks ago.
But keep the panic coming.
Anything not to reopen schools. Originally Posted by gnadfly
6 people died of COVID in Harris county yesterday. Despite an almost all encompassing mask order. No reporting of how many were rioters.Read this:
But keep the panic coming.
Anything not to reopen schools. Originally Posted by gnadfly
K - the number of deaths is not out of line for a severe year of Influenza A. Originally Posted by oeb11This is patently FALSE. Yet you keep saying it. A severe YEAR of flu kills about 50-60K. We are already double that in less than 6 months.
Ooohh, I see. So your whole idiotic argument is based on the bad assumption that we will be able to treat this next year better than we treat the flu.We are already treating it so much better than the faggot Yankees up in NYC did just a few months ago and now we have convalesent plasma, IDIOT!
One enormous "IF" argument.
Tell me, idiot - what makes you think we will be able to treat this like we treat the flu? We don't actually "treat" the flu. We have partially-effective vaccines for it. But once, you get it, you pretty much have to tough it out. Medications have limited effectiveness. That's why 30K-50K die of flu every year.
There is NO guarantee we will have a vaccine for CV-19. There is NO guarantee we will develop a treatment - since we haven't even got one for the flu.
The flu only kills 30K-50K each year because only a small percentage (maybe 20%) of the population gets the flu to begin with. But it appears that CV-19 is going to affect the majority of the population - 50% or more. So, not only does it have a much higher death rate (over 1.5%), it will be spread to far more people.
If antibody immunity does not last more than a few months, we may lose more than 150K EVERY year until there is a vaccine.
That is a worst case scenario, but it is NOT a highly unlikely one. Originally Posted by Kinkster90210