Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

Nighthawk117 said:
Ok, as we await SpokenTruth's daily update...I crunched some numbers for the USA....(rounding them off)

Covid-19:
Total Cases: 500,000
Total Deaths: 20,000
Death rate: 4%

Common Flu (each year):
Likely Cases: 25,000,000
Likely Deaths: 25,000
Death rate: .001%

So, Covid-19 kills vastly more than the common flu. We don't shut down our economy because of the common flu.
Covid-19 is scary shit.

You know the sad thing, though? Nobody gives a single shit about those 25k cold deaths. Or the hundreds of thousands of other preventable deaths. It's kinda morbid to think that there is a clear line of which people dying is cool and which people dying is not cool.

For example, 250k of people dying from covid in the US would be super uncool. But over 400k of people dying from smoking every year is super cool. US deaths won't reach that worst case scenario, but it will still be treated like the worst health crisis ever. Everyone will pat themselves on their backs and then continue to change nothing about anything else.