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[–] DoodooBrown412 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Give Covid-19 the rest of the year and a month or two (since it didn't really get a good start until Feb or so). Maybe it'll top the regular old flu and take a fair amount of the obese with it. Fingers crossed.

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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Maybe. I would bet it's been spreading since November and yet China flu has killed only 50,000 people or so in 3-5 months. Regular flu kills 500,000 people every year so China flu is well behind. I don't know why people are so excited about a flu that might a few fat people through pneumonia when you have heart disease and diabetes decimating them on a daily basis. Flu deaths don't even register, even in a bad flu season.

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[–] teatime 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Not that I disagree, but I’ve known a few people to get covid now and I do not want it. It sounds incredibly painful. The people I know who recovered described it as being paralyzed with pain and suffocating by their own breathing.

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[–] DoodooBrown412 ago 

I suppose the excitement is partly that fats could be dying much sooner than with the traditional fat plagues. Diabetes and heart disease can take decades. It seems Covid-19 can take them out in 1-2 weeks in their 20s and 30s. This virus is novel; there's a lot of data still emerging and a lot of unknowns. I think comparing it to influenza is a fallacy, but only a few years of data (time) will tell. I'll be the first to admit we just don't know, and that claiming to know, is almost always a bad idea in any situation.