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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by xscott on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:49AM (#22793657)
The point still holds to compare Covid vs flu+pneumonia then. This is some weird No True Scotsman argument you're making where it's not the "True Flu" if they had pneumonia as well... (likely getting pneumonia because of the flu) I doubt the dead people would be comforted by such a subtle distinction.
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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by KMag on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:50PM (#22798255)
The plus operator here is "and/or" not "and", but I presume you must have understood this. The GP's point is that flu+pnumonia = (flu) U (non-flu pneumonia). Nobody is denying that flu with pneumonia is flu.
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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by xscott on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:52PM (#22799393)
What's really happening is that some people are trying to compare deaths from Covid-19 to deaths from the typical flu/pneumonia season. Nitpicking about what is or isn't the flu really doesn't matter, what matters (to me at least) is how many more deaths Covid-19 is causing than normal "flu/common cold/pneumonia/whatever" deaths which happen every year.
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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by nullc on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:56PM (#22798691)
The CDC's figure is "flu or pneumonia" (non-exclusive). The majority of the moralities included in it do not have influenza.
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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by xscott on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:01PM (#22799443)
I really don't understand your intent. Are you trying to say more people have died so far from Covid-19 than die from a bad flu or pneumonia season?
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