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> Mortality rate is much, much lower than 3% if you exclude the elderly and the critically ill Yeah, fuck them, right?

• refurb 7y ago
  Do you get as upset when those same figures are given for the flu?
  • danso 7y ago
    What same figures? The CDC says the high end of flu deaths is 40,000 [0]. You think that number compares with a 3 percent mortality rate for the 70 million Americans who are 60+ years old? [0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
  • flukus 7y ago
    I do when people downplay the flu and say it's just a bad cold.