COVID VS FLU

[Franb]

You are an idiot there is NO, I repeat NO vaccine for the cold or the common flu. Please stop.

Then what, pray tell, are all of those flu shots that people have been taking for decades? They are vaccines for the flu! Have you heard of them?

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

You are an idiot there is NO, I repeat NO vaccine for the cold or the common flu. Please stop.

No flu vaccine. Hahaha. This might be the dumbest thing ever posted on a message board. Not just this one - any board in the history of the internet. And you called someone an idiot. That’s rich.

 

[FreeportPanther]

You are an idiot there is NO, I repeat NO vaccine for the cold or the common flu. Please stop.

Is this a race toward total stupidity between you and Buffet, or are you just another Buffet alias?

 

[jivecat]

No it doesn't. Another lie. The study takes into account multiple seroprevalance studies, including the one from NY.

That NY study is not that favorable, by the way. If only 20 percent of the NY population has been infected, then NY would have to go through this same event three more times before it is resolved (60 percent is herd immunity)!!!

Also, compare that to Pittsburgh, where there has been, at most, a 2 percent infection rate. For Pittsburgh to get to NY, there would need to be 20 times more infections.

Hope that nobody that is asymptomatic visits from NY or DC (where there a 20 percent positive rate) and joins a social event in Pittsburgh.

And that is where you and the opinion piece you quoted are flawed. We do not know the true infection rate. What we do know it is higher then only those who were tested. Most people are asymptotic. That is a good thing. Also...when you talk about infection....the only real concern is death at this point. So....protect the high risk and don’t put our resources into this who will recover easily.

If you want to use the CDC numbers then show the fact that over 74% of the deaths are people over 70. The other deaths are high risk. Put things into perspective.