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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Millions, not thousands, of people die from influenza. I fail to understand how nobody even cares about that but this virus is the end of the world. I’m not trying to diminish the seriousness but the reaction to this borders on insanity.
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It probably has something to do with:
1) SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus. Influenza isn't.
2) We have vaccines for seasonal influenza. We don't for this yet.
3) It's deadlier than influenza.
That's why we took mitigation efforts, and even with those efforts, we've lost 170,000 Americans to it so far.