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Old 17 March 2020, 09:47 AM   #2289
mannyv11
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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy View Post
I just don’t believe this number, I believe you heard it but I can’t believe a first-world nation like the UK would suffer this much. Modern medicine has eliminated Polio, TB, even cured some forms of cancer. I don’t believe with all the resources and knowledge at our disposal any modern country would suffer this much from an influenza. If this were some laboratory-created super microbe (think of the movie “I am Legend”) maybe, but I honestly feel with public measures and medicinal experts working around the clock it will not get this bad.
Just because you don’t believe it doesn’t make it not a real number.
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