Every Year an Epidemic: Say
Goodbye to Normal Winters
American Thinker,
by
Justin Geoffrey
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/21/2020 11:10:46 AM
We all remember the horrible fall and winter of 2017-2018, when a terrible epidemic ravaged America. Schools closed, restaurants shut down, and sporting events were canceled to control the monster, but it still killed 90,000 men and women.You don’t remember the closings and cancellations because they never happened. But the epidemic did occur. According to CDC statistics, during the 2017-2018 flu season influenza killed 46,000 to 95,000 people. (The CDC estimates deaths in a range because a definitive diagnosis of the cause of death via respiratory failure is often impossible.) Ninety thousand deaths is the high end of the estimate, but it is still
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Grounded 3/21/2020 11:38:40 AM (No. 353142)
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 3/21/2020 11:44:44 AM (No. 353158)
I remember that winter for different reasons. It was bitterly cold and here in south Jersey we had a blizzard on the first day of spring. As for the flu that season, I dont recall a thing about it
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Grounded 3/21/2020 11:51:49 AM (No. 353167)
The only flu seasons that I remember are the ones during which I came down with the flu. For instance, I remember 1980-81 very well. Especially the weekend around Christmas.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/21/2020 12:01:01 PM (No. 353184)
Expect a future of constant demands for lockdowns and restrictions from the Left. They have discovered that fear of disease makes a great excuse for totalitarian control.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 3/21/2020 12:32:10 PM (No. 353235)
I think most of us have serious questions about the why this Wuhan virus is being treated more urgently than the flu, which this flu season has already killed 40k plus. Medical people say that this virus is much more virulent, much more easily transmitted, with no known palliative; they say it's deadlier for all these reasons. Perhaps there's also cause to fear that this virus could mutate further and become even worse.
Some researchers have said that during the Black Death, the bubonic plague could mutate into a pneumonic form, and that when infected from droplets spewed even by a passerby, people died within hours. We have to remember how weak the population was, in general. But at least a third of Europe was wiped out. Plague was bacterial in nature, and flea-bites spread infected blood until the pneumonic form developed which then enabled it to be transmitted person-to-person.
Influenza is not the same infection as corona, so I finally grasped. These germs are doggone insidious.
The question is, HOW did this get started? I believe that the Chinese commies want to bring to down the Trump Administration. The Russia thing didn't work; the impeachment thing didn't work; maybe destroying our economy would work. I'm suspicious of the Chinese. Maybe crazy, but I think it's very possible that this covid-19 was engineered.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/21/2020 12:42:55 PM (No. 353243)
This has also puzzled me that a flu virus with about the same mortality rate is being treated like the Black Death and the end of the world. Do they know something that we don't? Is it a bioweapon that is set to mutate? If they do know something that they are not telling the public then the extreme methods may be necessary. If it's not anymore lethal than seasonal flu then we have crashed the stock market, put thousands of small business in bankruptcy and cost hundreds of thousands their jobs and livelihoods for pretty much nothing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/21/2020 1:01:21 PM (No. 353265)
Well, at least if there's a Republican President. Not so much if there's a Democrat President.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/21/2020 1:02:27 PM (No. 353267)
Wintertime has always included colds and flues. We need to stop panicking and simply live (or die) with that fact.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 3/21/2020 1:42:39 PM (No. 353335)
The only reason we are getting so much 'hype' from the lame stream media is they still want to bring Trump down, but unintended consequences rear up, and his poll numbers are increasing....KAG!!! Go Trump..make a liberal head explode....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Luandir 3/21/2020 3:09:09 PM (No. 353467)
My personal expectation is that the Wuhan virus will prove no more destructive than seasonal influenza, and the people are going to be pretty upset about the media crying "Wolf."
I doubt that the populace will fall for it a second time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/21/2020 3:21:50 PM (No. 353495)
How many people do you personally know who have the Chinese flu?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/21/2020 4:14:34 PM (No. 353540)
We will have an annual anniversary of this forever. We will never be allowed to forget it, forever warned that some other calamity is coming, and we must surrender everything to the leftists to be saved.
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