From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 7:39:07 PM UTC-4, Boron wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Fascist mentality?  It's fascists who want to impose rigid controls on society.   
      
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