[–] TurquoiseLover 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Let's wait and see if Pence catches it.
Differences:
1. When did influenza ever flood the hospitals with 15,000 people, 20% of which need mechanical ventilation in one day or even a week? What happens then if you have a car accident, heart attack, or you're in the hospital being treated for something else?
2. Flu utilizes throat cells to reproduce.
COVID 19 needs ACE cells to reproduce: Ace cells are found at the end of the bronchioles at the beginning of the alveolar sacs where blood releases CO2 and picks up Oxygen. If the sacs get filled with lymphocytes making antibodies and the cells of the sacs are being destroyed at the same time from the virus, then you cannot breath even with an apparatus. ACE cells are also found in your kidneys, small intestines, and pericardial sac.
This also happens in flu except in your throat, which is not the parenchyma of the respiratory system. Meaning, you can live if the throat becomes inflamed in this way, but not the parenchymal alveolar sacs. You'll die if they get destroyed.
3. COVID 19 has 20x CFR as the flu.
4. Non-symptomatic people can and do shed the virus causing about 2-3 other people to catch it - Only symptomatic people or post infection patients shed the flu
5. We have no herd immunity like we have to certain influenzas because the flu is not a NEW disease and NOVEL coronavirus 19 is.
I could list about 10 more things but, I think that's enough to get my point across.
[–] myopicseer ago (edited ago)
I don't get the unnecessary, and highly conjectured theories people are coming up with to explain a novel viral outbreak. Problem with your theory is that the MSM was not even interested in covering this at all for the first 2 months, instead focused on a fake impeachment which already had a determined outcome.
This in fact IS a novel virus, that is killing people--mostly vulnerable people (young or old) and those with compromised immune systems, This can easily mutate into a more virulent form--in fact, that is what happened during the Spanish Flu. The first wave was not that deadly. It mutated and millions of people died. It mutated again to a less virulent form. Viruses need a host to do what they want to do... which is replicate themselves. When they mutate to a more virulent form, they are less effective at replication, so those forms generally don't persist as long as a less virulent strand would.
Could it be MSM was covering for China? Would they want people to know about the deaths resulting in political intrigue around the Wuhan area? There is evidence the Covid-19 virus was released as a result and patient one has had all mention of her scrubbed. There's a lot more going on than you know.
On the other hand we have eye witness testimony that patients who caught pneumonia from COVID 19 and then died are showing the cause of death as pneumonia NOT COVID 19.
It goes both ways. Now which way do you think the Chinese gov't wants it to appear; lower numbers of deaths or higher numbers? So which way are the figures being manipulated?
Dr. Fauci is advising the President. He compared this to the flu as if they are commensurable to one another. That's factually wrong and he knows it. Another traitor-44 appointee who can't tell the truth to save his life...literally.
[–] feckyerlife ago
This report says over 100k over 24k dead
this chinese billionare says over 50k dead
[–] feckyerlife ago
Someone on Rush made a good point today though. Corona is probably real and it was probably released to destroy the economies. If the DS is on the ropes, Corona would seem like their last play.
[–] Helenahandbasket ago
Covid 19 has emptied HK streets of protesters and pushed a lot of other stuff off the news, like the yellow vests.
Multi-purpose media distraction. Wrecked the cruise industry, tourism in general, disrupted supply chains, attempting to trigger a recession just before the election. Hope it bites the chicoms in the butt. Their people are pretty pissed.
[–] docksofthebay ago
I wonder how many C19 are flu
[–] fla5h6996 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I would not be surprised if what you suspect is true. Trust nothing that comes out of China, including supposed leaked information. China has total control of their internet if they want it. I always suspected that there was more to this "pandemic." We get a new flu out of China every year, this is just the next one, and they ALL are pandemics, the word merely means it spreads far and wide, sweeps the world, the flu does that every year and a few thousand die from it every year. The huge numbers dying in China doesn't match the lack of huge numbers in the rest of the world. I am willing to guess that they are having some sort of a civil war and they are burning the bodies to hide the evidence. The flu is real, and they may release more flu-like viruses to help keep the ruse up. I really don't know, but this is a considered opinion, I am open to being convinced that I may be wrong, provided that you are open to the possibility that I may be right.
[–] Alderwolf [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Also the number of people actually dying from this DOES NOT JUSTIFY the reaction to it even if the numbers are way off from the truth. The worldwide panic is also extremely suspect. There is far more at play they we are being told.
[–] myopicseer ago
This type of RNA virus is very adaptable -- it can mutate easily. There was a report from China that 6 members of a family had it, and all six had a different version. Also this thing--because of the HIV element--is up to 20 times easier to transmit than typical seasonal flu. This is why so many healthcare professionals are coming down with it. 40 in one Chinese hospital caught this. It is made (lab-engineered) to infect as many people as possible.
So while it may not come to anything in the long run, the concern for this as a potential pandemic is actually scientifically valid and warranted.