In fact, comparing it to the flu is a massive overstatement.
The flu kills an estimated 300,000 to 650,000 people worldwide every year, and there is absolutely zero chance that coronavirus is going to make it to 15% of that average. It might not even make it to 10%.
Also, keep in mind: although the death rate is probably basically correct, the infection rate could be a hundred or a thousand times more than what is reported, because virtually no one is getting tested and people are getting sick and recovering without ever going to a hospital or thinking about getting tested. This means that the actual mortality rate of the Coronavirus is very, very low.
So understand: people are dying left and right from the flu, all season, but this new disease pops up and kills a few people who probably would have died from the flu anyway and it’s the end of the world.
This is not reasonable.
Only a woman or a boomer could think this response is reasonable.
Unfortunately, policy in the West is set by women and boomers.
We estimated that 291243–645832 seasonal influenza-associated respiratory deaths (4·0–8·8 per 100000 individuals) occur annually. The highest mortality rates were estimated in sub-Saharan Africa (2·8–16·5 per 100000 individuals), southeast Asia (3·5–9·2 per 100000 individuals), and among people aged 75 years or older (51·3–99·4 per 100000 individuals). For 92 countries, we estimated that among children younger than 5 years, 9243–105690 influenza-associated respiratory deaths occur annually. thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)33293-2/fulltext
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“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus."
