It's just a coincidence

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The pandemic of the common cold, just like every year since time immemorial. Yep, that's the one.

[–]butterferret12 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

While you're not technically wrong -- much of the common cold is various strains of corona -- it is far from unheard of for a new strain that we aren't prepared for to be potentially deadly. It was the case with h1n1, and it is much the same case here. It may be easy for you to say that this is just the common cold, but I have seen two aquaintances catch this, one of whom died, and can tell you that this is not your everyday corona.

A good portion of the strains in the common cold are very weak, and can hardly even do so much as to make you realize that you have something.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I had it. Sore throat, annoying dry cough. Did feel utterly different from the usual "common cold". Still, the 0.26% mortality rate is in the same ballpark as the aforementioned.

Please tell me of the health status of your acquaintance who died from it, pre-COVID, and how thoroughly certain you are that they died from THAT and not medical, ahem, "error" of using a ventilator or simply putting the wrong thing on the death certificate?

To be clear, I was only comparing this to the common cold to underline how asinine and purposely destructive it was to SHUT DOWN THE WORLD over this.

[–]butterferret12 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The death rate is far closer to 10% than your 0.26.

I am 100% certain that their death was caused by this, but you seem so utterly convinced that I doubt you'd even consider any evidence legitimate. As such, it is no more than a waste of my time to bother any further.

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

The CDC disagrees with you: https://macdailynews.com/2020/05/26/new-cdc-estimate-puts-covid-19-death-rate-at-0-26/

And it's not like it's politically advantageous for them to admit it was so grossly overestimated in the beginning.

[–]butterferret12 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ , there have been about 400,000 deaths from coronavirus. The NYT article they cited said that they expected closer to 100-200,000 people to die, which means that they far underestimated how many people will die.

This isn't even to mention that your link talks about past projections, not actual numbers. Even if we were to incorporate the 100,000 false deaths they spoke about, that would still be upwards of 7-8%.

As a side note, people dying of pre-existing issues or even negligence as a result of corona are still dying of corona. If they would not have died otherwise, they have died because if corona.