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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 13:47:28 2020 No.12039289 View Reply Original Report

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Why are HIV and COVID 19 outbreaks classified as pandemics while common cold and seasonal flu outbreaks aren't?

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 13:48:33 No.12039292 Report

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Because it's /pol/itical, not /sci/entifical question.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 14:45:24 No.12039464 Report

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>>12039289
>A pandemic (from Greek ???, pan, "all" and ?????, demos, "people") is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected people such as recurrences of seasonal influenza are generally excluded as they occur simultaneously in large regions of the globe rather than being spread worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 14:55:07 No.12039489 Report

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>>12039292
lrn2read

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 16:32:44 No.12039758 Report

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>>12039289
Hard to politicize the flu. People are too familiar with it. That's why they always have to give it a different name to create a scare over it.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 16:38:14 No.12039779 Report

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>>12039289
it causes long term damage apprently

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 16:45:41 No.12039816 Report

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>>12039758
>Hard to politicize the flu.
The CDC tries. 5k official flu deaths a year in the USA, so they lump flu and pneumonia deaths together and tell everyone the flu kills 50k people annually.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 16:56:18 No.12039847 Report

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>>12039289
Because Epstein didn’t kill himself so they had to change the narrative

No seriously, all this COVID shit started not even 2 weeks later

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Anonymous Sun 23 Aug 2020 17:12:35 No.12039892 Report

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>>12039289
Seasonal flu CAN be a pandemic such as the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. However the Flu, even the Swine Flu is not nearly as deadly as Covid-19. Swine Flu killed about 12,500 people in 2 years in the United States with about 60 million people infected that gives us a fatality rate of .02%. Covid-19 has killed over 160,000 people in half the time and Swine Flu was considered an especially deadly version of the flu.

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