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Old 13-04-2020, 11:57   #2081
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
So is Covid-19 in addition to the regular seasonal flu or a replacement for it? Given the later timing(ie post-winter) of it, it would seem to be an additional source of deaths.


The only "treatment" seems to be to keep people alive long enough for their own bodies to overcome it by themselves.
Yes, it is an additional cause of deaths. As a number, it is frightening people. I am merely making the point that a higher number of seasonal flu deaths happen in many years and people scarcely bat an eyelid.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Another one arguing about a point I didn’t actually make. 250 000 without intervention - that’s the analysis that drove the Government policy we have now so I’m amazed at you questioning it to be honest you are usually a keen and unquestioning follower.

The problem is far from it just solely being heavy demand for medical care over a few short weeks. It’s clearly more deadly and more easily transmitted than seasonal flu. As I’ve pointed out to you a million times if it was just the flu nobody would have noticed and it’d just get chalked up as a few extra deaths here and there or a particularly cold winter.
We are talking about the seriousness of the actual number of deaths recorded, jfman. Stop criticising points I did not make.
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