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@mayofeb2020

I stopped watching the news on TV. My children update me on things I need to know. There are too much misinformation floating around on the internet too.

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There's so much misinformation, there's so much I could tell, with links to epidemologists, one of note from Stanford University, people that specialize in the transmission of disease, but I think it wouldn't be permitted here. Things are not as bad as they claim, the media is exaggerating the impact, but emphatically I am not saying that older people (such as myself), especially older people with various health issues (such as myself), need not be careful. Although I agree, this is worse than the flu, the flu causes a tremendous loss of life on it's own. And a vaccine, according to the epidemiologist I've listened to, may be over a year away. He said they can do more harm with vaccines if not properly designed and tested, then having no vaccine at all. He supports vaccines, but he said they must be careful in its design. But he stressed his findings in California, many more people have been infected than previously realized, and especially younger people may experience the virus without symptoms, or with mild symptoms. And this decreases the death rate, as they were calculating it early as known positives vs death rate, which is improper, you must calculate the total infected vs the death rate.

The HHS encouraged doctors to report fatalities as covid even without proof. The epidemologists I've listened to said there is a difference between deaths with covid and deaths from covid, he said the mere presence of the virus does not mean it was the one that caused the death. So the numbers are likely inflated. But be careful, I'm not suggesting this is a hoax, but I don't believe it's as bad as being constantly reported.