Reuters: Influenza, which each year kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, all but vanished in Europe last month as coronavirus lockdowns slowed transmission, according to EU data and scientists.
Although lockdowns did not come until March of this year, almost through the flu season, the drop in flu cases because of the lockdown for CV19 is strong enough to show that lockdowns every flu season should be mandatory.
Firstly, in the flu season of 2017-18, the US lost 80,000 people due to flu. In Europe, the figures were outright scary, some 152,000 died of flu. In both cases, the numbers are higher than the current respective CV19 death figures.
But it is clear, no amount of lives lost can be tolerated!
Henceforth, lockdowns during the flu season, October through May, must be maintained and all those that oppose it are wanton genocidal maniacs!
In the US we can also limit auto speed to 5 mph and save another 40,000 lives! Yes, together we can!!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-flu/remember-the-flu-coronavirus-sent-it-into-hiding-but-at-a-cost-idUSKBN2221PG
a) Unlike the flu, Covid-19 is a virus humans have no immunity to, which is the case for pandemics like Swine Flu, bird flu, HIV, Zika, the Bubonic Plague, etc.
b) There are vaccines for the flu; not so with Covid-19.
Apart from that, it's not a terrible idea, but I doubt we can sustain annual lockdowns like this.
@vivify saidOnce you get sick and survive you get antibodies, which is how vaccines work.
That's a stupid post. If humans had immunity to Covid, there wouldn't be a pandemic in the first place...which was the point of my post and why Earl's attempt at sarcasm fails.
Seriously, are you this ignorant on the subject?
@eladar saidOmfg.
Once you get sick and survive you get antibodies, which is how vaccines work.
Seriously, are you this ignorant on the subject?
Earl is trying to make lockdowns look dumb by comparing it to lockdowns for the flu. I pointed out there's less need for flu lockdowns because most people have immunity and vaccines exist.
Lockdowns for Covid *are* necessary because. Most people don't have immunity to it. Whether or not some people gain immunity *after* the pandemic passes doesn't change that they're needed NOW.
Christ, dude.
@vivify saidPeople under age 40 have near zero percent chance of being killed by this thing.
Omfg.
Earl is trying to make lockdowns look dumb by comparing it to lockdowns for the flu. I pointed out there's less need for flu lockdowns because most people have immunity and vaccines exist.
Lockdowns for Covid *are* necessary because. Most people don't have immunity to it. Whether or not some people gain immunity *after* the pandemic passes doesn't change that they're needed NOW.
Christ, dude.
This thing is far from the end of the earth, at least as a virus. Of course the reaction to it might destroy our world.
@eladar saidThe corporate news media likes to point out we don't know if antibodies give people immunity, yet they are always suggesting a vaccine will work. That is a contradiction they should be called on.
Once you get sick and survive you get antibodies, which is how vaccines work.
Seriously, are you this ignorant on the subject?
They want people to accept double think. Ask them how likely SARS2 antibodies do not give people immunity. Then ask them why they never mentioned it before.
@metal-brain saidIt is odd watching the world come to an end over a virus which kills only a very small fraction who get it.
The corporate news media likes to point out we don't know if antibodies give people immunity, yet they are always suggesting a vaccine will work. That is a contradiction they should be called on.
They want people to accept double think. Ask them how likely SARS2 antibodies do not give people immunity. Then ask them why they never mentioned it before.
@vivify said"Most people don't have immunity to it."
Omfg.
Earl is trying to make lockdowns look dumb by comparing it to lockdowns for the flu. I pointed out there's less need for flu lockdowns because most people have immunity and vaccines exist.
Lockdowns for Covid *are* necessary because. Most people don't have immunity to it. Whether or not some people gain immunity *after* the pandemic passes doesn't change that they're needed NOW.
Christ, dude.
You have no proof of that.
@eladar saidRight.
It is odd watching the world come to an end over a virus which kills only a very small fraction who get it.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-are-currently-not-measuring-the-incidence-of-coronavirus-diseases-but-the-activity-of-the-specialists-searching-for-them/5708477
https://www.globalresearch.ca/stanford-antibodies-study-wraps-up-shows-covid-19-50x-more-prevalent-50x-less-deadly/5710147
@earl-of-trumps saidSqueal American piggy, squeal!
Reuters: Influenza, which each year kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, all but vanished in Europe last month as coronavirus lockdowns slowed transmission, according to EU data and scientists.
Although lockdowns did not come until March of this year, almost through the flu season, the drop in flu cases because of the lockdown for CV19 is stron ...[text shortened]... -health-coronavirus-flu/remember-the-flu-coronavirus-sent-it-into-hiding-but-at-a-cost-idUSKBN2221PG
@eladar saidLet's see in NYS, 290 people under the age of 40 have died of COVID and NY has just about 1/3 of the deaths in the country. https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n
People under age 40 have near zero percent chance of being killed by this thing.
This thing is far from the end of the earth, at least as a virus. Of course the reaction to it might destroy our world.
That's in about a month, which gives an annual rate of 10,000 deaths.
That would make COVID one of the top causes of death in the US for those under 40, exceeded only by accidents, homicides and suicides (slightly) and maybe heart disease. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2017-508.pdf
@no1marauder said390 out of 8 million people?
Let's see in NYS, 290 people under the age of 40 have died of COVID and NY has just about 1/3 of the deaths in the country. https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n
That's in about a month, which gives an annual rate of 10,000 deaths.
That would make COVID one of the top cau ...[text shortened]... t disease. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2017-508.pdf
Really? You are going to go nutso due to such a small number?
8000 people die each day in the US.
@eladar saidWould you take 10,000 people out and shoot them to help the Donald get re-elected?
390 out of 8 million people?
Really? You are going to go nutso due to such a small number?
The one "going nuts" is you; what most people support is reasonable measures to protect the public health. What you seem to support is mass murder.