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Originally Posted by Bearcat
I was just trying to find the point in a couple of your posts where you didn't seem to care much if it kills 5% (6.5 million people in the US) and that the cold is also a virus so it's just like the cold.
The common cold hasn't shut down Italy and Spain and China.
The point of slowing it down right now is to get through flu season with the hopes of developing a vaccine, so there's really no point in saying "everyone will get it eventually".
No one knows exactly the right level of precautions, but we do know where a lackadaisical approach has gotten other countries.
No one in this thread is 'sitting here and whining' about 'shutting down all of society'.
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What does it matter how much I care about the fatality rate? It is what it is. How much I care isn't going to change that part of it.
Moving on . . .
You and Donger and the other guy are overreacting to my use of the example of the common cold. I never said it's as lethal or whatever as the common cold. But it's certainly a lot less lethal than ebola. Where's your outrage for his use of Ebola?
What I was trying to communicate was that this thing will ultimately spread much like rhinovirus. That everyone at some point will come into contact with it. And that ultimately younger people will get it, and get over it, much like younger people get over the cold or the flu. That was extent of my comparison.
You people are the ones trying to reinterpret what I meant.