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@AtTheMurph posted:

We have a flu vaccine and 80,000 +/- a year still die from the flu. We don't really test for the flu either. You just get it and survive or die from it like many other things.

Adequate testing won't do anything other than tell us that this thing is actually another flu by it's mortality rate. 

The current course is the best course. we slowed the spread and didn't overwhelm the health care system. That's really the best that we can hope for because just like the flu, it will be changing and coming back all the t


I'm 72, lived all over the US and must confess I know of no one who died from the ordinary yearly flu. That got me to thinking about why, one would think that if 10's of thousands are dieing each year I would have. I found this article and found it interesting. Take it for what it is worth.

https://blogs.scientificameric...g-apples-to-oranges/

I think most responsible states/groups/individuals have encouraged daily updates.  The state of Minnesota has done an excellent job providing facts, explaining their reasoning all in the attempt to provide the public with as much information as necessary in the middle of a global pandemic.

@Pikes Peak posted:


I'm 72, lived all over the US and must confess I know of no one who died from the ordinary yearly flu. That got me to thinking about why, one would think that if 10's of thousands are dieing each year I would have. I found this article and found it interesting. Take it for what it is worth.

https://blogs.scientificameric...g-apples-to-oranges/

My cousin's wife died from complications of the flu (influenza) this past December.

@Pikes Peak posted:

Colleges having students stay home while having football players come to campus to make money for them for basically free....would that be good look?

Please baby Jesus let this happen.    That would completely expose the NCAA for what it is..  

@H5 posted:

I wonder how they might be able to do that considering the existing network deals? 

I’d bet they have wording in those contracts giving them loopholes in emergency or catastrophic events that change the laying landscape.

@Pikes Peak posted:


I'm 72, lived all over the US and must confess I know of no one who died from the ordinary yearly flu. That got me to thinking about why, one would think that if 10's of thousands are dieing each year I would have. I found this article and found it interesting. Take it for what it is worth.

https://blogs.scientificameric...g-apples-to-oranges/

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