Flu Deaths Five Times Higher Than COVID Deaths

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[–]aspos 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, over the last 7 weeks. . . That might be right. (No particular reason to doubt it).

Otherwise, I was going to call bullshit. It was at one point more sever than a normal flu -- 2-4 times, not something like 100 or a 1,000 times -- but the thing about diseases is that they can mutate to be less deadly over time. If you're a virus and you kill all your hosts, how are you going to spread? Herd immunity is building up with a lot of people not even showing symptoms.

Why so few dead? People are also better fed on average than they were in every other global pandemic, and we have learned from the NYC situation to not preemptively intubate people. (I don't think it was malice. . . just a learning process).

Covid-19 is more closely related to colds than flues, and that seems to be it's future. It'll live with us as a cold. . . well, forever.

Sources? Mostly from that Red-Dick place that we don't like here. If super-curious, look through this guy's stuff: https://www.reddit.com/user/mushroomsarefriends

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it reminds me of something called the epstein barr virus, funny name. Also called mono. Lot of people get this and recover, what sucks is I learned it causes a lot of forms of cancer later in life. So it is one of those things it is just better to avoid getting.

[–]Ned 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-coronavirus-common-cold-covid.html

[–]aspos 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice. It does make a lot of sense as to what we are seeing as well.