07-28-2021, 12:49 PM
(07-28-2021, 12:34 PM)ochocincos Wrote: The yearly flu deaths in the US vary between 12,000 and 61,000 for the past decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statistics_by_flu_season
The reason COVID is considered so much worse is because the number of deaths is considered so much worse (10x-20x).
In 2020, approx. 375,000 deaths in the US had COVID as a contributing factor.
So far in 2021, another 236,000 have occurred.
That's quite a substantial jump over the number from the seasonal flu.
I dont disagree with that, as long as we can trust that all those covid deaths are actually because of covid, and we just cant right now. There is simply too much evidence to the contrary. And even if they are right, how may of them were needless because some people made poor decisions to put infected people in the nursing homes all over the nation? The very first real outbreak in my town actually happened in a nursing home of all places. Before that hit the local airwaves and newspaper, there were literally less than 20 covid cases in a county of way over 200,000 people. Then it hit one nursing home, then another, then another. At first it was almost like nursing homes were the only ones having outbreaks. It was pretty freakin scary to be honest. Like worst case situation type of thing.
