Torillian on 17 April 2021
| snyps said: It’s not going to kill you unless you’re 75+ with a weak immune system. I get that the number of deaths, compared to influenza, would have tripled or quadrupled, but that’s still around 0.05% of the population. I wouldn’t call that a pandemic. Would you? https://vimeo.com/508415270 |
Going to use the US for these stats because I know where to find the necessary info.
standard flu season kills 20-60k. In the timeframe from March 2020 to March 2021, coronavirus killed 540,000. So we're talking closer to 10-20x the death toll of a standard flu season.
0.17% of the US population has already been killed by coronavirus so the idea that the worst corona could do is kill 0.05% of the population seems a bit like an underestimate.
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