I agree.
I wish they would post side-by-side stats with this year’s normal flu statistics.
I bet we’d see anywhere in the 15-20 million infected, with maybe 100,00 dead.
Perspective is needed.
The flu is endemic. It’s everywhere and you can’t contain it. We have vaccines and some herd immunity. It kills 0.1% of the infected, on average.
CCP-19 is not endemic. No vaccine, no herd immunity. Containment efforts slow it down while we develop countermeasures. Most people have not been exposed, yet, and we need to keep it that way. The best results anywhere in the world for a large scale infection (South Korea) still yield a 1.3% (13 times the flu) fatality rate, and many cases are still unresolved, so that number will rise.
The worst case results for something that might be honest stats (Italy) has a 1 in 11, or 9%, fatality rate, because FluBros and deranged liberals thought they could stare down a virus and crashed their HCS. That’s what all this is to prevent.
Let me add a little perspectve.
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2017
You can’t compare this to the flu....
Oranges and Apples are both fruit but they are vastly different from each other.....
Take a look at China and Italy....this is what we’re trying to avoid. Heck just look at New York city...thousands there are positive and they’re hospitals are harried trying to keep up...that’s just ‘one’ city in our country.
Last I read (yesterday or day before) there were approx. 35,000,000 Americans with this yrs flu and approx. 25-27,000 dead.