The other betacoronaviruses and some influenza strains can also cause neurological symptoms. So does herpes. Of course, though, when their warning concerns something detected > 1,000 times less often than people, well, actually dying from it in the UK, puts things in perspective.

Just for some perspective on the deaths, the last time the US had more was on June 10, and at it's height there were over 2500 deaths every day - and back then there were only about half the number of daily cases.

I just saw a video with Trump saying:
"Mortality rate, we 're the lowest anywhere in the world" - Trump.

Huh? ~134,000 deaths, and ranked like 8th highest in the world on WorldoMeter.info.
Also most of the countries with higher mortality rates (pr pop) have their outbreak under control.

How long will it be until USA is #1 not just in cases, but also in mortality rates?
Its bound to happend, with how insane the outbreak currently is.

How can Trump with a straigt face, sit on TV and say such things?
He knows that it'll be fact checked, or that any sane person would be able to see through the lies right?

For some of the survivors of the Virus I think they would prefer death.. there are some nasty efffects from the virus.

It's been quite a few months now and it's clear black death this ain't. Hate me for it but I no longer buy into the fear mongering. Doing so at this point would be like no longer driving for fear of car crash. There's always a risk of catching something when you interact with people, before and after the pooh virus, nothing new here.

It has killed atleast 134,000 people in the US.
Harvard expect above 200,000 by November.

There was 56,000+ new daily cases yesterday, and in 3-4 weeks schools are opening most places in the US.
In the middle of a pandemic, where the US has a serious outbreak that isnt under controll, schools are reopening.

You know that Meme? the "this is fine" where hes just sitting in a burning building drinking coffee, or something.
Thats Trump and the US currently.

That fact that you can post something as you just did almost proves that.
Lets say the US never goes back into lockdown, and your "my freedoms" types make it so you cant contrain it, via good hygine & mask wearing.
It just keeps going, and potentially have have a million or two die to it.

Is that just acceptable?
Have you guys actually reached such a point?
No one cares anymore?

Car crashes kill about a 5th of the people per day as the "pooh virus". Also car crashes aren't contagious. Just like the pool drowning comparison there just isn't a good comparison to be made between accidental deaths and a contagious disease.  

Also most of the people in the "we need to take this more seriously camp" are just trying to get people to wear masks which is akin to seatbelts in your example. But large swathes of our population can't even be bothered to do that. 

Torillian just say it like this : 

Car's kill about 30,000-35,000 every year in the US.

Corona Virus HAS killed 134,000+ in about 4 months.

thats like 4-5 times as many deaths, by corona virus, in about 1/3th the time.
OR potentially ~15 times as much, as Cars do pr year, so far, in the USA.

Oh yeah, I was thinking more of it kills 5x more people per day even now with our decreased death numbers. 

True, the decreased death rate is pretty interesting, I need to read into what might have caused that after this is all said and done. On the mask thing I just read a pretty heartening Gallup poll result that 86% of the country say they've worn a mask in the past week. That's pretty decent though I'd be curious how it compares to (what I'd think of as) more reasonable countries.