Covid-19 is "suddenly" less deadly than influenza

In-the-clouds · 2022-03-11T16:04:50+00:00

The flu took a vacation during COVID, but now that a majority of people already got jabbed, the vacation is over and flu is back. That's according to mainstream media reporting.

A more serious way of thinking of this: In the past two years, most people that had the flu were identified as COVID. It sounded scarier that way, and people stop thinking rationally when they are scared.

yabbit · 2022-03-11T23:04:45+00:00

bruh less than 1 percent of the population died of covid and 99 percent of them were over 60. They literally shut down the country for a virus that was less deadly than the flu.

IkeConn · 2022-03-12T03:40:28+00:00

Yea. Covid era politicians finally realized there is an election coming up in November.

Tiwaking · 2022-03-12T09:37:48+00:00

Just to give a baseline for Flu vs Holocough: https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine/issue45/inbrief/otago664450.html

Flu a major killer Research by the University of Otago, Wellington, has found that influenza kills about 500 New Zealanders each year, making it probably New Zealand’s biggest single infectious disease killer.

Holocough: https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases

Location Active Recovered Deceased Total Change in last 24 hours*

Total 206405 141078 93 347576 18740*

Remember that this is over 2 years of gathering data.

93/206405 = 0.00045057
That is, what, 0.045%

Zapped · 2022-03-12T13:35:46+00:00

This tweet says only 40% of people in England have had Covid-19. I think that figure is low. We know more about treatment now and that's also why it's less deadly.

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