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resident's messaging on this, you know, being muddled and getting some facts wrong and stuff. So it wasn't building confidence. He has the wrong personality for this situation. He's just a natural salesperson and politician and all that but it just doesn't fit the problem. And I'd been hoping to see him adjust because everybody's adjusting, right? You know that's what we do well as a species. We a…
← Previous segment →I have is, is this typical? That in the past we were having doctors dying from treating just regular flu? Because they had to be happening somewhere, right? Because the regular flu can also take people out and some doctors would be older, over 60 etc. But I think these are actually younger doctors. But is this a reporting phenomenon? In other words is it true that every year there are, you know, we lose a few doctors actually dying to the flu? Does that happen every year and we just don't report it because it seems more like the baseline? And are we over-reporting some specific things that are certainly worrisome? And you know it doesn't mean we should treat the situation any less seriously but I'm just wondering if when we're talking about the doctors who are dying if any of this is because there's more reporting about it. It's just a question. But the seriousness of course should not be underestimated.
And the reason that matters, the reason it matters to us is that I would like to know the odds of dying if I get it. And the only way I would know that is to know how many infected people are not having problems. So if you tell me, Scott, it is very normal for doctors to be dying during the fl
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u season from catching the flu, it's just low percentage, we don't report it, it's just sort of baseline badness. If I knew that and I knew that what I was seeing about these doctors dying was just more of that, then that would give me a little more comfort that if I get it I'm not going to die. So it has to do with our national state of mind which is important because this is in a way what we're…
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