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This comment is a great example of the ignorance we face. "It's mostly in China" = I don't understand exponential growth. "the flu" = I don't understand that
by earthtourist 7y ago
This comment is a great example of the ignorance we face.
"It's mostly in China" = I don't understand exponential growth.
"the flu" = I don't understand that there's a 10-30x higher mortality rate and hospital bed availability is vital to lowering it.
https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
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- lou1306 7y ago> and hospital bed availability is vital to lowering it. This. Plus, any disease that has very good chances of putting a young, healthy person in some ICU is not "the flu".