From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:52:48 -0700 (PDT), billvan@shaw.ca wrote:   
      
   >On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 1:25:55 PM UTC-7, Bob wrote:   
   >>   
   >> How often have schools closed because of the flu?  I don't get the   
   justification for closing because of THIS respiratory illness and not THAT one.   
   >   
   >Covid19 has a fatality rate of between three and four per cent.   
   >Regular influenza has a fatality rate below 0.1 per cent. In   
   >other words, the coronavirus is 30 to 40 times more likely to kill   
   >you than an ordinary flu.   
   >   
   >Do you get it now?   
   >   
   >bill   
      
   And we have vaccines each year, as well as therapeutics to treat   
   influenza, and the disease progression is, with rare exception,   
   predictable in progression and outcome.   
      
   Of course he gets is. He has the training and knowledge to get it, but   
   the fascist mentality to deliberately distort and BS about it.   
      
   See it. Call it out. Do not let it go by unchecked. Do not bothside   
   it. It is passivity that has allowed this political wildfire to burn   
   almost unchecked.   
      
   Fuck Bob.   
      
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