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Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
The flu, in a normal year, kills 35,000 people. Coronavirus, with all the steps we've already taken to stop it, has killed 5 times that.
If we had not taken steps to stop it, the projection was millions dead. That is why.
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If we had not taken steps to stop it, the projection was millions dead. That is why.