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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yup. Something isnt right. Your numbers are off.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Good point, I upvoted the OP but we should correct the numbers.

It says 488k, your link says 883k. So we can say it is roughly double what the OP image says.

Which means that the overall rate is 0.012% instead of 0.006%. And the 2018 seasonal flu was 0.009%. So with the correct numbers taken in to account, covid is basically the 2018 flu season, but 1.3x worse.

The reaction to covid has been a lot more than 1.3x the reaction to the 2018 flu season. This reaction made sense back at the start when people legitimately thought the mortality rate was 3-4%, but months later now that it's apparent the actual IFR is more around 0.3%, we need to scale our reaction back proportionally as well. But some people seem to be stuck in the emotion of the earlier panic before we knew what we were dealing with exactly.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The 2018 Flu information is being skewed too. I'm not seeing a global death rate of 650K for 2018 in my search, but there are articles saying a yearly death rate of 290K-650K. With the average being 389K. Note the upper limit being 650K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza

What I did find is the US death rate for the 2018 flu season was 61099. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html Compare that to covid19's 187,159 deaths. We are only 3/4s of the way through the year as well.

It is also suspicious how they paint the picture the flu season was no big deal when it was one of the worse we had in decades as far as deaths go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/last-years-flu-broke-records-for-deaths-and-illnesses-new-cdc-numbers-show/2018/09/26/97cb43fc-c0ed-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html

The overreaction to Sars2 is because of its novelty. Check this out for a better understanding of the "pandemic" classification. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/about.html Since we are comparing it to the flu, it seems to meet a lot of the pandemic criteria wouldnt you say? How the world is handling the virus has been the craziest shit ever tho.

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It was made some time ago ...