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Old Jan 28, 2020 | 2:18 am
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Originally Posted by Flying Lawyer
They can do what they want and everybody may have his opinion on this. Fact of the matter is that the risk to die from the flue in the US is dramatically higher than to die from a Corona Virus in China and even more dramatically higher than even to come into contact with the virus outside Wuhan. In particular the rest of China might well be by far safer than the entire US. The current administration has an agenda if it comes to China.
It is simply not known if that is true. And there is a vaccine fo the flu. Comparing a relatively isolated (currently), rapidly spreading virus with an unknown infectivity, lethality and treatment to the flu which is already spread rapidly and has a vaccine is not a valid comparison.
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