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by Martin Hash » Tue May 05, 2020 2:19 pm
Here's my rewrite:
COVID19
There's lots of respiratory, meaning they affect your breathing, viruses, thousands maybe? The common flu is also a respiratory virus, which is why COVID19 is often compared to the flu, and rightly so, regardless of any sanctimonious posturing about life & death you might hear. The various flu strains are estimated to kill about 50K people a year but the actual cause of death is normally listed as pneumonia, which has many causes, so it's difficult to tell, which is different than COVID19 which is listed as the cause of death, even when fever was the actual cause. It's mostly dangerous to older people with compromised breathing, or weakened immune systems. The common cold also comes from viruses, some in the same family as COVID19, and there's no vaccines for colds or the flu, only a partial vaccine, called a “flu shot” that older people are encouraged to take every year even though its effectiveness is questionable. There's no drugs that cure either. Everybody can get these viruses, though there are few cases of a child passing COVID19 to an adult.
Masks don't prevent people from catching a virus because viruses are way too small. Masks just stop those who are contagious from sneezing on the food at the grocery store, where it remains infectious for a couple days, but masks seem to placate people; makes them think their doing something proactive in this time of emergency, even if they are ridiculously. Because there are and never have been any vaccines or cures for respiratory viruses, several nations did not lockdown, but decided to let the virus spread naturally, which showed that lockdowns don't do much to stop the spread of COVID19, though they do facilitate authoritarians.
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