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Originally Posted by mugwump
To keep things in perspective, about 50,000 people die of seasonal flu each year.
For you preppers out there, this is a fascinating exercise that's unfolding before us. All diseases exist in an ecological and sociological context. We're seeing how the media and the 24-hour news cycle contribute to that context.
I said it before in the panflu thread: cultures can generally hold things together until there are unprocessed bodies in the street. In 1918 there were bodies placed curbside in Boston, Philly, Chicago, etc, but the mortuary carts kept rolling and picked them up. There are bodies rotting in the street in West Africa -- that's what has the WHO spooked.
There's no reason for events to progress to that point in the US -- barring the MSM whipping public perception into a frothing panic.
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The numbers that you provided concerning death from the flu each year.....
What is the demographic of the deceaced and common ages?
What is the survivability rate?