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radius777

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17. Flu has a 0.1% mortality rate,

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 11:42 PM

Mar 2020

while Covid19 has about a 3% mortality rate.

3% of 325million = 9.75 million people could die, many more very sick, especially since covid19 is more contagious than the flu.

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Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat [View all] riversedge Mar 2020 OP

"You know, lots of ships bump into chunks of ice. We don't get all upset when that happens." Girard442 Mar 2020 #1

LMAO! DEbluedude Mar 2020 #4

Riight, everybody was "meh" when the Titanic sunk sakabatou Mar 2020 #11

Fox Snooze bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #2

Criminal behavior! eom LittleGirl Mar 2020 #3

Jumping' jehoshaphat! BarbD Mar 2020 #5

#wheresfauci EarthFirst Mar 2020 #6

What an obscene stain he is. zentrum Mar 2020 #7

As Forrest Gump said, stupi is, as stupid does. iluvtennis Mar 2020 #8

OH. MY. GOD. He STILL DOESN'T GET IT??? LymphocyteLover Mar 2020 #9

I think that he DOES get it Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #16

PLEASE let it be true.... LymphocyteLover Mar 2020 #18

Flu doesn't leave large numbers of people with long term lung damage, for one thing. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #10

I have never in my life wanted someone to have a stroke, Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #12

Same here. LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #14

Most of us would like to err on the safe side from death. LakeArenal Mar 2020 #13

Just replace "This" with Trump. captain jack Mar 2020 #15

Flu has a 0.1% mortality rate, radius777 Mar 2020 #17