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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by DanBC on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:19AM (#22421820)
I don't know about you but I'm bombarded every year with campaigns to get people immunised, and the meetings I go to talk about availability of the vaccine for the public, and for healthcare professionals, and how many professionals have been vaccinated so far and how we can ethically increase that number, and on top of that every year for the past however long in the English NHS there's been a lot of talk about winter pressure.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by lisper on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:13AM (#22424273)
Fair enough, but there is nonetheless a lot more hand-wringing about covid-19 than there is about seasonal flu despite the fact that the total number of covid cases is still less than the number of annual flu deaths.

Covid is very serious and we should not be complacent about it. But I think it's important to keep some perspective, especially since we seem to be on the brink of shutting down the entire global economy.

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