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by sveng 2303 days ago
I’ve seen C19 rates of 20% seriously ill (hospitalization) and 5% critical care (ICU). Almost no country has the capability for this, even in large cities.

There are vaccines for flu; none for C19 for 18 months at the earliest. Also, C19 is contagious when victims are asymptomatic. It aerosolizes so it can spread across rooms and potentially through ventilation systems.

Many C19 healthcare workers are becoming infected, some dying. This is unheard of with the flu.

And C19 is uncontained, unlike SARS. It meets the definition of pandemic now (2+ continents and community spread). The WHO will finally recognize this any day now.

To equate C19 with the flu is inaccurate and dangerous.

Watch this video from CNBC last Friday.[1] It’s excellent, and features experts who do not mince words.

[1] https://youtu.be/8A9BT3lAGHU

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Curious why you say 18 months at the earliest for a vaccine. Is this a standard vaccine timeline? Are we guaranteed to be able to make a vaccine for this virus? I am not at all educated on how vaccines are developed.