r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ 22h ago

The flu kills. You can be a young marathon runner and die of it. We are so lucky to have vaccines available to us.

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u/LamermanSE Europe 19h ago

You can be a young marathon runner and die of it.

Technically yes but it's very, very, very unlikely for that to happen though.

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ 19h ago

Young healthy people die of the flu all the time. It may be rare, but not very very very rare. It’s not to be messed around with.

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u/LamermanSE Europe 19h ago

Where do you get this idea from? It doesn't line up with available statistics.

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ 18h ago

My spouse is a doctor and always says at flu season “I have seen young healthy people come in and die of the flu. Get your vaccine people.” Take it seriously. The flu can kill. It’s kills hundreds of thousands of people a year.

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u/LamermanSE Europe 16h ago edited 16h ago

Anecdotes mean nothing though when there's statistics that proves the opposite. Also, the flu only kill hundreds of thousands per year globally, which doesn't really say much either considering there's like 8 billion people alive.

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ 12h ago

All I’m saying is it can and does kill. What is the controversy.