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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by happytoexplain on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:07AM (#22694236)
Thank you. Too often this comparison is made to establish the ridiculous inverse argument: We don't take the flu very seriously, so we shouldn't take Corona very seriously.
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by d0mine on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:24AM (#22694432)
Why Covid-19 is worse than the flu, in one chart https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/18/21184992/co...
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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by dwild on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:55PM (#22697896)
He isn't saying Covid-19 isn't worse than the flu, he is saying that many people consider the flu not important, which meant that they would just as easily consider Covid-19 as unimportant, because the flu was the closest reference they had.
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