>Just look up the amount of pneumonia deaths in Germany in the past week, there's a massive spike.
Tried to do that. What I found was this:
euromomo.eu/
This looks as if the amount of death people in europe is pretty on the low end.
> Trusting Numbers
I've had a thought lately:
Thinking that Corona-Chan is some dangerous virus depends upon the assumption, that the government numbers were created by an honest and competent entity. If they're not competent, those numbers are wrong, and if they're lying, those numbers are also wrong. And claiming, that some western government is competent as well as honest seems outlandish to me.
IMHO what's happening is, that the number of cases is underreported. Most people who get a mild case are never tested, and if most infected don't end up on intensive care, most infections go by unnoticed.
Those who are being tested have a much higher chance of ending up in the ICU, which of course increases the rate of deaths of those cases.
What the deaths/cases ratio therefore measures, is how thorough the testing is. AFAIK the italian healthcare system is trashy in comparison to the german one. Yes, both are socialist, and suck, but there are differing degrees in suckiness. Apparently in germany there's more or less thorough testing, and they find a higher percentage of all infected.
I know, we all hoped for the best, aka the apocalypse, but it may be the case, that Corona-Chan is a highly infectious dud. Maybe worse than the common cold, but not an world-ending disaster. Let's hope she mutates into airborne-aids-pneumonia.