More like 20,000. Remember who's telling us the news.
Hong Kong Flu killed 100,000 Americans over the course of a full year.
Wuhan Flu has killed 60,000 Americans in six weeks.
Do some math.
Everyone on FR is a statistician these days. Bad statisticians.
dying since at least January (5 months), not 6 weeks.
There have been numerous reports, linked on Free Republic and other conservative websites, that the U.S. deaths from ChiCom virus are significantly inflated because in Demonicrat-controlled areas the deaths of other people (even those who test negative) have, for political purposes, been lumped in with ChiCom-caused deaths.
More like 20,000. Remember who's telling us the news.
The death count is suspicious because hospitals get more money from the feds when it's a chicom-virus death, and there have been lots of allegations that the counts are manipulated.
Actually, in '68 I was on an extended tropical vacation and taking quinine. I knew of Woodstock; but, like many others here, was not aware of the HK flu.
In any case, the death rate would be more comparable, but you can do your own math. The point is: between a totalitarian lockdown and doing nothing at all, there should be a better solution. Now WHO is telling us Sweden is the better model.
Their parents, who were born at the end of the great depression to parents who fought in WWI would have strung up a group of politician who engineered 30% unemployment on purpose and told them to wear masks and where to walk, like they were domesticated animals. This whole thing is a sick joke.
The numbers are being fudged too, we have been told a load of lies to promote a depression and the Dem who can fix it all!
“Wuhan Flu has killed 60,000 Americans in six weeks.”
With lockdowns too.
However, did that, or the 116,000 Americans that died as a result of the Asian flu (when the US pop. was about half it is today), see the level of testing (upon which estimates are built) that COVID has?
Wuhan Flu has killed 60,000 Americans in six weeks.
6 weeks would make the first U.S. death by COVID to be about the middle of March, versus on February 6, though reports increased as it spread and the number of tests increased. In any case, even if deaths by COVID attain to or surpass the levels of the the Asian and HK flu infections, you would also have to factor in the % of the population to make them equal.
Yet even if the COVID death rate per million is equal to or surpasses them, the issue remains that we did not see comparative restrictions with the prior pandemics proportionate to their death rate per million. Their simply is nothing close to it, which is what I think the basic argument of the article is.
“Wuhan Flu has killed 60,000 Americans in six weeks.”
First, we don’t know it is 60,000. The lying is rampant.
Second, it’s been far longer than 6 weeks.
It hasn’t killed 60,000. The reasons that number can’t be trusted or verified have been pointed out to you many times.
Whoever you’re being paid by is certainly getting their money’s worth, and you end up looking like a psycho freak.
Hope it’s worth it to you.
Do some research and you’ll find that even the CDC has reclassed some 50k of those to flu, pneumonia, other coronavirus
Sure. When we run the figures, should we account for the fact that US population in 1968 was 205 million and today it is over 330 million or do we just compare numbers and assume that's the same across decades?