1) For the 'it is just the flu' crowed. Without drastic countermeasures, deaths from seasonal influenza in the US between 2010 and 2019 varied between 12,000 and 61,000. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html SARS-CoV-2 has within a very short period of time......
2)....and despite drastic countermeasures killed 80,000 individuals in the US as of today. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic, according to estimate (not official counts) killed approximately 280,000 people globally within the time frame of about 1.5 years......
3)....Today, we have reached this number as official case count with SARS-CoV-2 globally. After five months and drastic countermeasures. This is not seasonal flu. Even if some electric car producers want you to think that.
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