Dear Patrick True re: 2017-2018 flu season. Also, our novel coronavirus is more infectious, nobody has partial immunity (yet), and the death/complication rate is rather higher than it was for the flu strain you cite.
The point of all the social distancing, closing schools etc is to slow the wave of infection, reduce the peak numbers, so that emergency/medical services are available to the ~20% of cases that require medical assistance vs totally overwhelming the available services. A personal note: I was briefly on oxygen in early 2018 thanks to that damn flu and a subsequent viral pneumonia. It ruined my riding season that year, and I still have respiratory deficits associated with it. Not recommended. Best Regards, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 3:27:03 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > In 2017-18 there were 80,000 deaths from the flu in the US. 900,000 people > went to the hospital because of the flu. Per: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/last-years-flu-broke-records-for-deaths-and-illnesses-new-cdc-numbers-show/2018/09/26/97cb43fc-c0ed-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html > > Make of that what you will. > > Still riding with abandon, > Patrick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6d0698c1-0797-482e-b8e0-9a31e8927e91%40googlegroups.com.
