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   In article <0001HW.2C0541490026A28F70000C14238F@news.supernews.com>,   
   WolfFan   wrote:   
   >> Ok. Sad, but there are people who die of bananas, and we don't ban   
   >> bananas. In that age group, corona was about as dangerous as driving a   
   >> car, so not justifiable to close down the world for a flu.   
   >   
   >bloody hell:   
   >   
   >1. covid-19 ain’t ‘a flu’   
      
   Don't discount "flu".  (You did mention the example of the   
   "Spanish Flu" of WWI.)   
      
   The "bird flu" that is starting to transmit to cattle, for   
   instance...  There's no human-to-human transmission (yet)   
   but about 900 people have caught it from cattle.   
      
   And half of them died of it.   
      
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