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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1221697)	4/17/2020 3:17:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579998

Quit trivializing this disease. That's not the way it's done for flu. There is no testing of the general population.If you don't enter the health-care system, you don't have flu.Stay home with the flu; you don't have flu. Go to school or work sick with the flu? Same story. How CDC Estimates the Burden of Seasonal Influenza in the U.S. The burden of influenza on the United States can vary widely from season to season and is affected by a number of factors including the characteristics of circulating viruses, the timing of the season, population immunity to circulating viruses, how well influenza vaccines are working, and how many people have gotten vaccinated. While the impact of influenza varies from season to season, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC uses a mathematical model to estimate the numbers of influenza illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States, ( 1-4) as well as, the impact of influenza vaccination on these numbers. The methods used to calculate the burden of influenza have been described previously ( 1-2). More recently, the same model was adopted to estimate influenza-associated deaths in the United States. This methodology has been used to retroactively calculate influenza burden, including deaths, going back to 2010. This page includes information on current and past methods for estimating the number of influenza illnesses, medical visits, influenza-associated hospitalizations, and influenza-associated deaths that occur in the U.S. during a given season. cdc.gov

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1221697)	4/17/2020 3:21:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579998

Mindmeld, The more of these kinds of true scientific studies that are done, the more we find out that many, many times the people we thought, have actually contracted the virus and come out the other side. I'll say it again, we've made a giant mistake shutting this economy down. It was simply not worth the cost in money and lives destroyed. Once again, this is all hindsight, and even then, there's no justification for claiming that the lockdowns didn't "flatten the curve." It's like claiming that your chances for getting hit in a shootout is lower because there were actually more bullets that were fired than once thought. Tenchusatsu