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> It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths. This is bad, but 'another seasonal flu' i

> It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths. This is bad, but 'another seasonal flu' is not dominating the news day and night. Governments aren't preventing people from doing business with, and traveling to countries due to the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu isn't giving closet racists license to come out of the closet. Maybe you're lucky and have missed all the "they deserve it" comments, but the truth is if this originated in any other country this wouldn't be getting the coverage it's been getting.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
I simply don't believe that closet racists are coming out of the closet. It seems to me that open racists are just saying "haha coronavirus" instead of whatever they were saying before. Governments don't block travel due to the seasonal flu only because they know the seasonal flu is unstoppable. If the seasonal flu could be kept out of your country by closing borders for a month or two, I think a lot of governments would do it.
- lolc 7y ago
  I think so too. If we had any hope of eradicating just one influenza strain we would discuss even a month of worldwide travel bans to get that.
- stevens32 7y ago
  I debated bursting your bubble on this, because I would like to get back into the bubble - but in case others find this and aren't aware: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus
  - SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
    I don't really know how to interpret this. The first example I saw in English (I had to skip past some because I can't read French) was some guy beating up an Asian woman. I find it pretty implausible that guy's racism was closeted beforehand.
lolc 7y ago
Where I live, the death rate of Influenza is a recurring topic every season. After that it's not interesting because we know the disease very well. For all we know, it cannot be stopped by measures less bad than the flu itself. Thus eradication has not been attempted and is not even being discussed because there are easier targets. On the other hand, we know very little about Cov2. Its spread and its projected death rate are interesting to me and many other people. We're also currently trying to contain Cov2 by drastic actions. That too generates a lot of headlines. It seems we're failing because heavier measures are unacceptable. Cue more headlines. It may just become another flu strain we'll understand well and discuss shortly every year when it comes around again.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago

I simply don't believe that closet racists are coming out of the closet. It seems to me that open racists are just saying "haha coronavirus" instead of whatever they were saying before. Governments don't block travel due to the seasonal flu only because they know the seasonal flu is unstoppable. If the seasonal flu could be kept out of your country by closing borders for a month or two, I think a lot of governments would do it.

lolc 7y ago
I think so too. If we had any hope of eradicating just one influenza strain we would discuss even a month of worldwide travel bans to get that.
stevens32 7y ago
I debated bursting your bubble on this, because I would like to get back into the bubble - but in case others find this and aren't aware: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus
- SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
  I don't really know how to interpret this. The first example I saw in English (I had to skip past some because I can't read French) was some guy beating up an Asian woman. I find it pretty implausible that guy's racism was closeted beforehand.

lolc 7y ago

Where I live, the death rate of Influenza is a recurring topic every season. After that it's not interesting because we know the disease very well. For all we know, it cannot be stopped by measures less bad than the flu itself. Thus eradication has not been attempted and is not even being discussed because there are easier targets. On the other hand, we know very little about Cov2. Its spread and its projected death rate are interesting to me and many other people. We're also currently trying to contain Cov2 by drastic actions. That too generates a lot of headlines. It seems we're failing because heavier measures are unacceptable. Cue more headlines. It may just become another flu strain we'll understand well and discuss shortly every year when it comes around again.