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What's Texas' current death rate? How does it compare to the flu? How does it compare to other states for Wuhan virus?
Just under 2700 deaths. Rate is 93/million population.
So we cancelled the State Fair when we have > 7,000 deaths to go to reach a bad influenza season? We're smart.
I think you mean 700?
Whut?
How are you measuring a "bad flu season?" CDC reports an average of about 3400 Texas deaths from the flu each year. Because we are at about 2700 covid deaths I assumed you meant we were 700 deaths or more away from a "bad flu season."
~10K Texans died in 2018 flu season. Why didn't we shut down the State Fair?
To start with, because the State Fair does not happen during flu season. As we are learning, there does not appear to be a "Covid Season." To add on, the facts that the flu was less contagious, had a vaccine and a known treatment, meant that the risk of materially increasing the number of deaths by having the fair was negligible. Not so for Covid.
It is simply amazing to see bright people fail to accept basic science.
If one wants to argue that reviving economy is more important than saving the hundreds of thousands of lives that would be lost by ignoring the virus, go ahead and do it. (And explain why you think people will still be going out as hundreds of thousands of people are dying). But pretending we can just return to normal without a staggering human cost is just wishful thinking.