"Max Demian" wrote in message
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On 14/04/2020 21:50, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 14/04/2020 15:44, Max Demian wrote:

Neither do I. I've never had 'flu and I don't see why I should start
now. In any case, the virus mutates so you need a new vaccination every
year and it frequently doesn't work.

"'Flu" is usually what people complain about when they have a cold and
want a day off work. It is rarely fatal, or even serious.

Max, I'm astonished anyone still thinks that. I would have thought in the
current situation everybody would know about the 1918 'Flu pandemic.

While the total number of deaths is not clear it is comparable with WW1
that preceded it. And a lot of them were young and healthy (before!)

The influenzas since 1918 have been a lot less infective and serious. They
are mostly dangerous to certain groups who are offered vaccination, which
sometimes works.

Last year's boring ordinary didn't make the news flu killed nearly 2000
people in the UK.

You've always got to ask the question, beloved of the radio
programme/podcast "More or Less": "Is that a big number?"

Same for Covid-19. The problem with that is mainly that a lot of people
are getting sick at the same time, and require elaborate care to keep them
alive and avoid infecting the health care staff.

600,000 people die a year in the UK of various causes.

Yes.

Most people currently dying of Covid-19 would die within a year.

Thats less clear.

All very sad, but there you are.

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:46:09 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the nym-shifting senile cretin's latest troll****

03:46?????? Just what the **** is wrong with you, you 86-year-old senile
pest?

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