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Originally Posted by Suit
Didn't most of these come about right around election times as well? I'm not going to do the research, but I feel like this has happened before. Ebola too maybe?
It happens to be winter time = flu season. As it gets colder, your body weakens and becomes more susceptible to getting sick. The flu also slowly mutates and slowly circles the earth. This circling of the earth is how scientists can "know" what strains to put in your flu vaccine.
If the elections were in July, we could create conspiracies about people blowing their fingers off with fire works. USA#1 would be accused of spraying stupid-juice all over the place so her injured citizens couldn't pull the level in the voting booth.
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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
Corrona has already killed way more than SARS, but that is not the point, the point is a disease does not need to kill to be a problem, a highly infectious disease that puts lots of people in hospital/makes lots of people miss work but kills no one is a much bigger problem to modern interconnected economies than a disease that kills most people who catch it but has a much lower infection rate.
People need to stop concentrating on the mortality rate. You need to look at the collectivised effect, not the risk to your personal individual health.
Also its worth remembering with China that they did not have full information on the disease when they put all their reactions and policies into effect and had to make some worst case assumptions.
I don't know what the numbers are for taking work off for flu -vs- what's happening now.
It was Chinese New Year on Feb. 12. During this time, the entire country shuts down and everyone goes back home to visit family. This would be the worst time to spread a disease like this. Wuhan has 19 million people and is an industrial hub, so people who live there would be heading home under normal circumstances.
I'm not really sure if that information adds or subtracts to your thoughts.