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Anti-quarantine is the new anti-vaxx.
Perhaps the worst article I have ever read. @nxthompson this should not have been published. It is anti-vaxx level disinformation.

First, the 1918 Spanish Flu killed millions!

Second, severity is indeed the issue. ARDS, pneumonia, hospitalization.
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Is this the worst sentence ever written in Wired?

“broadly comparable in risk to a bad seasonal influenza or, at worst the 1918 influenza pandemic”

Seasonal flu: kills ~500k/year
Spanish flu: killed 50M people!

That’s a 100X difference. 50X if you amortize over two years.
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