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[QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 3473722, member: 37"]
Of course there are people with an agenda that has little to do with the problem.

Please reread what I wrote.  I’m not advocating a position.  Understand variants of the corona virus were the cause of SARs and MERs.  Those diseases were extremely fatal but fortunately not very contagious.  If they had the same contagion rate as the flu that would be catastrophic.

You might also note I never wrote the mortality rate in the 1917 flu pandemic was 25%.  The number of deaths was estimated between 25 million and 50 million which was a 2% mortality rate compared to the 0.1% mortality rate of the flu in a mild year. That number still results in 450,000 deaths worldwide.

I feel the knee jerk reflex of immediately dismissing the danger of these outbreaks is just as wrong as the exploitation of them.

Personally I’m following events in Italy.  Their outbreak appears to be different than ours.  If the numbers of deaths in Italy turns out to be minimal than your position is most likely correct.
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