Originally Posted by RickyD
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CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
Deaths caused by flu are comprised mostly of old, and very sick people who can't fight any ailment in their frail condition. The number of deaths to the number who contract the flu any modern year is very small. That same number for Ebola is very high as it kills the young and strong with "boring" regularity. To equate the flu to Ebola is far from rational.


Plane crashes are more deadly than car crashes per event, but the chance of being involved in a fatal car crash is much higher.

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people... The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic,

I think it's unfortunate if young children or elderly people die from a disease, regardless.

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