Originally Posted by
tirebob
I have an issue with the way they throw around number honestly. 3000+ people admitted to hospital for example... They make it sound like 3000 people are layed up in the hospital on deaths door when in reality it is 3000+ people who went to an ER rather than their family doctor and they were seen by an ER doctor and sent home. They called that "admitted to hospital". Same with the death numbers... "92 people died" is more like the vast majority were already on deaths door and the flu was just the final nail in the coffin. It isn't people just running around today living life and dying tomorrow.
Fuck they sound like the environmentalists who report that a pipeline leaked oil. Oh we lost 250 gallons but it sounds way better to say we lost 1000 liters. Shit, soon they will be saying that they lost a million milliliters! lol
Fuck I just wish there was no self serving reporting and we could all count on the facts rather than the facts being manipulated and mislead to serve an agenda and sway opinion.
*DISCLAIMER* - I am saying all sides do this and not just blaming one group!
Except that 3000 number is the number of people who tested positive for the Flu virus and were so sick they needed to be hospitalized. It is not the number of people that just showed up "sick" to a hospital. The media is not sensationalizing anything, you just don't believe the FACTS!
Literally the first link on google: https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/5c88...ce-2018-17.pdf
"To date in the 2017/18 season, the Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (ProvLab) has reported 9,013 labconfirmed
influenza cases: 5,621 influenza A and 3,392 influenza B."
"There have been 3,000 hospitalized influenza cases and 234 patients admitted to the ICU to date. The
predominant subtype in hospitalized patients is Influenza A (H3N2)."
Last edited by mikestypes; 11-23-2018 at 04:54 PM.
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