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Originally Posted by twdm
1. There are decisions that were made hastily based on "models" and "doomsday projections". Sweden has largely debunked the myths.
2. Since you aren't a healthcare professional you wouldn't have realized the 2017-18 flu devastated healthcare systems. And because we're both living in Hong Kong, I would like to let you know that all public hospitals were over capacity and even private hospitals had waitlists for admission.
If you want data here it is (US CDC data for US alone):
The overall burden of influenza for the 2017-2018 season was an estimated 45 million influenza illnesses, 21 million influenza-associated medical visits, 810,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, and 61,000 influenza-associated deaths
And this is WITH VACCINATION and WITH TREATMENT over a largely 5 month period (from Nov-Mar.)
Also of note, it killed people from all age groups.
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1) Sweden hasn't "debunked" anything compared to all their neighbouring countries. (note this is NOT a random selection of countries, but rather all countries surrounding Sweden, regardless of policy, with population size taken into account)
If anything is "debunked" it's the idea that we would be able to survive for very long without strict social distancing controls.
2) Quit trying to throw that fallacy of you knowing anything since you claim to be a healthcare professional. Whether you are or not is clearly not relevant.
2b) We went through this before, comparing the 17/18 flu to the coronavirus. Comparing an entire flu season AND pneumonia to 2 months of Corona in a hard hit area looks like this:
And yes, even with vaccination and treatment, flu kills a lot of people. And it still pales in comparison to coronavirus.
That is why the global economy took a back seat to "flatten the curve".
If ANYONE were to listen to your advice, the world would look like The Road by now.
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Originally Posted by twdm
Then again, it's easy to make all these claims when you don't actually know shit.
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Keep pretending like you know what you're talking about, since you work in a hospital.
If anything, you have even less of an excuse to be so wrong. You had somewhat of an excuse to be ignorant before the outbreak went worldwide. That's why I entertained the idea of arguing with you early on, it is only fair. Some even supported your nonsense early on, but it didn't take long for you to be proven so wrong.
But for you to continue saying this shit now, continuing to dig yourself deeper into this hole... You are just insulting everyone's intelligence now. This is even worse than the "liberate" protesters in America. At least they have a point in that they want to get a haircut.