And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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ExxWhy wrote:pnichols wrote:ExxWhy wrote:tomman58 wrote:Lantley wrote:wilber1 wrote:dodge guy wrote:
And 80,000 people died of the flu in 2017. I don't remember a shut down then? At the rate of 22,000 right now, that would be 66,000 by the end of the year. I don't see the issue that requires the country to be shut down.
23,500 have died since March 13, at that rate it would be more like 200,000 by the end of the year.
Now that the math has been corrected does an additional 150,000 deaths change your mind.
During the pandemic of 1917 Spanish Flu. I believe 675,000 died. That's what we are trying to avoid.
You can get a flu shot........ many don't and some of them die, chew on that.
Many do get the flu shot and some of them die! Flu shot is not a vaccine and is nowhere close to 100% effective.
[COLOR=]"Flu shot is not a vaccine"" ... huh?, huh? huh? :h
Where did you get this from? If you're somehow correct, you better contact whoever wrote this and have them correct what they wrote:
https://www.medicinenet.com/flu_vaccination/article.htm
Let me define what I consider a vaccine. When it works in most people, it is a vaccine. Like polio, mumps, measles, etc. Perhaps that is not the clinical description, but it is my description. I apologize if I have deceived you in any way.
The flu shot at the rosiest projection 50% effective. Would you call it a polio vaccine if you still had a 50-50 chance to get polio?
Call it a vaccine if you wish. If we get a "vaccine" that is 50% effective for covid-19, will that be satisfactory for those of you who wish to isolate as long as it takes?
The flu vaccine is a vaccine for the particular flu strains it is concocted for, but which strains will be most active is a guess and the accuracy of their guessing varies from season to season.
Shingles vaccine is likely less than 60% effective but having seen some of the effects of shingles, including a friend losing his flying career because of what it did to his vision, I'll take the 50% rather than nothing.
