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Another big thank you Doc! Your posts are always well worth the read.

The science is settled.

At least, as settled as it can be, in an area where estimation is the prescribed course.

It's just being ignored.

The number of people contracting the flu is estimated every year, as it has been for 100 years.

And that's because the impact of each year's flu, as a social health issue, isn't important enough to warrant an all-out study.

Number of people contracting Colds? .gov doesn't even bother to estimate, because colds are even lower on the danger scale, than the flu.

Mortality statistics for colds and flu are well known, and accepted as part of life.

The Coronavirus genus has been around for 60 years, and its lethality, characteristics and propensities are well known.

And it's known to be a relatively mild strain of the cold virus.

This year, is like any other year, cold-virus wise.

But somehow, this election year, with President Trump in office, science, in the sense of the known history of the cold and flu season, is being ignored.

The course of this year's corona virus is the same, or less significant, than past years of corona virus.

These circumstances are well known, and being intentionally ignored, to generate hysteria.

Doc, I'll never forget the thread you made about getting the flu shot. Since then, I have gotten the shot every year after reading your ideas about the major threat a virus pandemic was to all of us and building a defensive library. As soon as this virus began making news I immediately thought of that thread and hoped you would speak on Covid-19.

If I could find that old thread I would bump it as it is especially worthy of a read now.

Another thank you for Doc. That was a very informative OP post.

Thank you for the fantastic post Dr. It’s so important to get the right message out and to hear it from people we know and trust. This is especially vital when so many distrust the media and our scientific and political institutions.

Thank you for being on the front lines. I missed you (and the rest of the crew) in TX this year, but you have been in my thoughts. Please be safe and don’t hesitate to reach out, if there’s anything I can do.

As always excellent posts
Thanks Doc

Bump

+1 Much appreciated!

Doc: The wife passes she is 100% on board with your assessment. Bottom line is we can't solve an equation without all the variables...

DocRocket, thanks for the thoughtful, rational and well reasoned post. It actually made me think, for a minute there, that I was on a different forum.


Me too.

Interesting article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-low.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Thank you very much for posting this! I forwarded it to everybody I know. I'm not worried about myself (retired) or my kids and their spouses (working at home) but I am a little concerned about my 5 grand kids going back to school.

LIKE - Thanks doc rocket!

Very true DF. I expect that we are first in the number of cases now because of the ramped up testing and that the positive-but-not-sick denominator, to the critically-ill-to-death numerator, will grow very large.

One thing — Trump seems to have true fondness for China’s Xi, not I hope, to his blindness to their ultimate goal. They will only be “our friends” as it suits their purpose to economic world domination.

“We struggle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities.”

Thanks for taking the time to type it up, Doc. In this day and time we rarely know who to trust. Having shared a camp with you, I have no doubt in mind. Stay safe.
CT

This is THE BEST Coronavirus thread to date.

OP, excellent post. Thanks for the information.

as with others am glad for what you wrote.
i did print it, to hand out to members of the family .

Thanks Doc.

Voice of reason out of the panic - thanks Doc. As a retired medical professional (NP), I have come to much the same conclusions.