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Originally Posted by FR-S2GT86
@ humfrz
Waiting for me to die is like waiting for Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot to return to Federal Way......ain't gonna happen in your lifetime.  |
I always thought it said, "pu*** cow **ss* cow ****y cow!"
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Originally Posted by ermax
I've spent a ton of time in hospitals and doctors offices the past month. ... What I found interesting with all this time in the ER and at doctor's offices is how little talk there was about COVID. When my son was in the ER for respiratory issues they never once suggested it was COVID (and yes he had a fever). No COVID tests or anything. My brother in law is a doctor who is a big provaxer who did reluctantly take the Moderna vax but no one else in his family has taken it. My next door neighbor is also a nurse who hasn't taken it and doesn't plan on it. She said most of the nurses at her hospital haven't and don't plan on it.
The survival rate of the flu is about the same as COVID.
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Did you also stay at a Holiday Inn Express? I'm sorry to hear that your kids have gone through so much trouble recently. My balls ache for thee.
However, the attitudes of the few people you spoke with at a hospital have nothing to do with science. As I read your post, I thought to myself, "Where the hell is this guy?" I was not surprised to find out you are in Florida.
Nurses and doctors are not experts on epidemics. That's a field called epidemiology.
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss19.../section1.html
My dentist is an antivaxxer. I love her, and she is a fantastic dentist, but that doesn't make her wise in all things medical.
Your last line is a real doozy. It's just completely false. The COVID death rate is in the region of 1.5-2%. It can go higher when hospitals are overflowing, as it has recently in parts of India.
The flu death rate is a fraction of this.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden...-estimates.htm
The flue the year before COVID... Going with means of the ranges offered, 47 million cases. 43k deaths. .09% death rate. That means COVID is 16 to 22 times deadlier than the flu.
Except that the flu runs around unchecked and hits about as many Americans as COVID did when massive efforts were made to avoid the disease. Meanwhile, all the efforts to combat COVID have caused a 90% or so decrease in flu cases. That implies, tough not with certainty. Imagine if, with no protections, COVID were 10 times bigger. 10 times more deaths. That's 6 million dead Americans. The truth is, though, that deaths could have been far worse since hospitals could have been completely overrun.
The math is not on your side, Florida man.