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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 6:15 am
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Originally Posted by TravelingZoomer
You’ve bemoaned the entire thread, for days on end now, how this global pandemic is a hoax and people are sheep to believe the panic. Yet, everyday the situation gets worse and more facts come to light that show this is much worse than people originally thought. I myself have been humbled, back in January when Taiwan started to take it seriously I thought that it was a big overreaction...thank goodness smarter people than me made these decisions.

At the most conservative estimate, many smart people who research and deal with this stuff for a living predict nearly 20% of the global population will get the disease. At a 1% mortality rate, that is still millions dead and a reduction of global population not seen since WWII.

Yet instead of having the mental capacity to reflect on your own cognitive dissonance (hey, maybe I’m wrong on this...) you’ve doubled down and put your fingers in your ears yelling LA LA LA LA effectively calling everyone else stupid. But if the whole world smells like poo, perhaps look under your shoe first.
20% of the global population infected is a conservative estimate? How do these nameless smart people you refer to explain the course that it’s taken in several countries where it has been extant the longest, which now have virtually no new cases appearing?
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