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In article <0001HW.2C0541490026A28F70000C14238F@news.supernews.com>,
WolfFan  <akwolffan@zoho.com> 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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