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Yes, those factors played a role in its severity. So did the fact it took place in 1918. Coronavirus will unquestionably circulate around seasonally moving forward. Just like most of the other viruses in that same family do. That's what they've said from day one.

LOL No, but that is a very fitting guess for you, sir. Well, now I'm going to just let it linger until someone figures it out....

Although the best satellite photo I saw this week was this: Any idea what that is? (without cheating) ;-)

Thank you for pasting. Wow. They've lost 11 members of their parliament as well.

Pay wall.

Definitely didn't mean to wrap you into that, no. More of a general society-sense. The fervor has gotten so intense that it's almost reached a point where if you aren't just blindly in support of every possible reaction to this, and put forth economic balancing arguments, you are attacked as...

It was a hard hit to my ego, man, but I still love ya too. LOL Agree. It's tough to argue for getting 10s of thousands of people together in arenas right now. And who knows, maybe I'm completely wrong and it will turn out we didn't even DO ENOUGH when all is said and done. I just think...

Right. We got those behind us. Just like we'll get COVID-19 behind us. This is in large part because modern advances in technology (across many industries) make the severity of a flu-based virus like this much less devastating in 2020 than it was in 1918. SARS, MERS, bird flu, swine flu...

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I stand corrected on the time line. The point I was making stands exactly the same though.

Solid post. I hesitated to include Ebola in that post as I figured someone would take it and run down that road. As you know, Ebola is very different in many many ways from the others I referenced which are in the same family of viruses as coronavirus. I included it simply because it is a...

Hold on, wait, I just want to make sure I'm understanding you... your position is that people are NOT using references to the Spanish Flu of 1918 as an INTENTIONAL means of being misleading re coronavirus? Wow. The Spanish Flu of 1918 does not show how a lack of containment of coronavirus in...

It actually wasn't intentional. But I noticed it when you quoted it and it cracked me up.

red her·ring /ˈˌred ˈheriNG/ noun something that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting. Like comparing how Spanish Flu decimated millions in 1918 as a means of projecting the potential devastation of coronavirus in 2020.

Did you see how I changed it from "mankind" in 2018 to "humankind" in 2020? Don't tell me I'm not wise to trends, sir! LOL

Very well said post. "I've stated my position. I tend to prefer some mild "overreaction" (on a macro level, not a personal level) to "inaction" My only remark to it would be to encourage you to consider that there is an entire spectrum between "overreaction" (you can remove the world "mild"...

Because comparing how the Spanish Flu impacted mankind before even the industrial revolution had begun as a means of trying to show how coronavirus may impact humankind in 2020 is literally the definition of a red herring. What would be a lot more accurate is to see how the modern flu pandemics...

Again, that sounds great, but that's not what we're facing right now. You completely disregard the factor of economical devastation caused by the (over)reaction in your attempt to package the downside as "we go a few weeks without sports and go a bit stir crazy". IMO, the economical impact to...

And I agree with you there 100%, my man. I think maybe where we differ is that you seem to feel that a large amount of those who are skeptical about the level of precautionary actions that have been taken are in the Baghdad Bob camp - meaning, people who are advocating for doing nothing and...

Wow. Like every word I said to you just sailed right over your head. Ok, cool. Hook 'em!