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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by empath75 on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:47AM (#22405005)
> According to Wikipedia, Coronavirus has killed about 2000 people.

It's mostly isolated to 1 province in China. If you extrapolate those deaths world wide, you're talking 10s of millions of people dead if it goes pandemic.

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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by lm28469 on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:29AM (#22405474)
You can't really extrapolate things like that though. Try extrapolating west virginia diabetes related death to the world and we'd be fucked too.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by empath75 on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:41PM (#22406256)
I don't know that this needs to be said, but -- diabetes isn't contagious.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by tim333 on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:06PM (#22405878)
West virginia diabetes is not rapidly spreading around the globe just now.
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