Coronavirus Mortality Study Continues to Confirm Overall Mortality Not Much Different Than a Bad Seasonal Flu

Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/18/2020 | Joe Hoft

[brookwood]

"We’ve had one death in our borough from COVID-19." How many deaths did you have from seasonal flu?
This "study" is just a blog post. If I ignore California there are very few earthquakes in the US. If I ignore Japan and Indonesia there are very few tsunamis in the world. The idea of ignoring the areas which are hardest hit by a disease, in order to "prove" there is really no threat, is so incredibly stupid it is discouraging.

[AlaskaErik]

The idea of ignoring the areas which are hardest hit by a disease, in order to "prove" there is really no threat, is so incredibly stupid it is discouraging.

NYC is not Alaska. Just like other diseases, not every area is affected equally. I was not at the doctor's office, so I don't know if there was any context to his assertion, but I do know we've had one death in a population of over 100,000. My neighbor is a respiratory therapist at our only hospital and she says there have been zero COVID-19 cases in our hospital. So, while other areas are much harder hit, it's due to factors not present where I live, such as putting recovering COVID-19 cases in nursing homes that are filled with vulnerable people. So NYC compounded the problem with sheer stupidity, not to mention, people were not social distancing until much later than the rest of the country. And then there is mass transit and close proximity in every aspect of life in NYC that simply doesn't exist here. So showing a graph of NYC is meaningless to this discussion. It's an apples and oranges comparison. No incredible stupidity involved.