AFAICT, this is the first time anyone affiliated with a mainstream news org came out and said "hey, when this is all over you're probably going to know some people who died from it." I think most people were expecting brighter red flags from the media long before it came to that.
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The disingenuousness is flooring. Terrorists might kill 100 people = hysteria Virus might kill 100 million people = “cool, drink Coke btw”
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In fairness, we should be this chill about terrorists too
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"just another spanish flu" is quite a statement Didn't it kill about 1-2% of the worlds population.
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Yep. 50-100 million dead. Greater than sum of all military deaths in WWI and WWII, combined.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/ …
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Not sure how anyone can "know" at this point the this will have 1918 magnitude. These are BS artists
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Have you listened to the podcast? They didn't say it was a certainty at all. A spanish flu type situation was more talked about like a worst case scenario, but a very possible one.
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The discussion wasn’t nonchalant - here is the transcript.pic.twitter.com/twicR2Cw3S
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That sounds pretty darn nonchalant.
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This wasn’t a nonchalant episode. They were rightly sounding the alarm with an appropriate amount of alarm including a discussion of what people should do to prepare
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