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Putting Covid-19 In Perspective
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’m trying to get with the program and be a good citizen, but somewhere in my mind I keep feeling this coronavirus crisis is being over-hyped. I’d be interested in the Advisor’s perspective. T.G. Boulder, CO
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but very unlikely, you knew county, by hospital. (As it has someone who died. Most been for Covid-19) If every likely, you never gave it much panicked politician and public thought, nor did you or official was on-camera the rest of the country daily, on Next Door, change your on Facebook , on behavior in any Twitter offering way. dire warnings and tips to stop Now ask yourself the spread of the how you, and the deadly flu. The country, would have exact same disease responded if the news cycle was that you and the rest of the 24/7 100% coverage of every country probably ignored confirmed infection, every would certainly have caused confirmed death - by state, by wide-spread panic.
Great question T.G., and one that is being asked by many independent thinkers. Let’s look at the last regular flu season for that perspective: The CDC reported 350,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from the regular flu last season in the US alone. Maybe you got a flu shot. Maybe you knew someone who actually got sick. Possible, 28
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