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To: FR1 who wrote (133418)	3/11/2020 11:36:51 PM
From: robert b furman	Respond to of 207845

Hi FR1, I have thought the exact same thing you just voiced. Last year I had a close friend die of the flu. I have thought the exact same thing you just voiced. 82 years old with a heart problem. One of the best Corvette restorers in the world. The fear has been hyped by the news media, to a large degree. It is all part of life - sadly sometimes the end of life. Bob

To: FR1 who wrote (133418)	3/12/2020 8:04:36 AM
From: the traveler	Respond to of 207845

thanks for that website. unfortunately it pretty much proves my point---fatality rates are much higher, not lower, on 19 so far than for the common flu. i arbitrarily eliminated all countries with less than 500 cases since i thought that 19 was too new to the country to accurately project death rates. the above left us with 120,561 cases and 4575 deaths or a death rate of 3.795%----interestingly the good ol USA had a death rate of 2.876%. by comparison, according to the CDC in Atlanta, approx 8% of the US population, or approx. 26,176,000 people, caught the flu last year. of that number, approx. 56,000 died from it in the USA. that's .00214%. google.com therefore, per the above, the death rate on average for countries with >500 cases is 3.795% for 19 and .00214% for the flu. OR 17.52 times greater for 19.