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Originally Posted by alphasaur
It's unfortunate that politics have made their way into healthcare, and I mean that for both sides. Whenever data doesn't support the narrative they're trying to push all of a sudden science gets tossed in with the opposing political party.
Covid has been played heavily by both sides, with the left often making it out to be far more deadly than it is (it's no MERS or SARS) and the right making it out to be a simple cold (it's far more deadly than flu). As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle.
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Politics exists everywhere. It's like the Schwartz. Whining about it doesn't change things.
While I'm sure some people somewhere have played up the deadliness of COVID, I haven't seen it. You spread your ignorance. COVID-19 is a form of SARS.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/covid-19
COVID-19 is MASSIVELY deadlier than SARS and MERS combined. SARS killed like 800 people or so.
https://www.cdc.gov/dotw/sars/index.html
MERS killed far fewer from what I gather.
But COVID 19? That shit is nasty. It has this long incubation period where it spreads rapidly. Then it kills 1.5-2% of people, but 2-3 weeks later. It's a great spreader. It fits right into the stupidity blind spot of danger sensing that many people possess. Come on, man. Think! AT LEAST 600,000 DEAD AMERICANS.