Posted on 06/21/2020 11:50:08 AM PDT by The Fop
Back in the early part of the year, prior to the COVID-19 lockdowns, a lot of people, including the likes of Dr. Fauci and Anderson Cooper, told us we should be more worried about the seasonal flu than COVID-19.
Typically, around 55,000 Americans die every year from seasonal flu. There are all these websites out there tracking COVID-19 deaths. They tell us how many people died each day from COVID-19 in each State and each country. Currently over 122,000 people have supposedly died in America from COVID-19.
So are there another 55,000 people who died from the seasonal flu in addition to the 122,000 who supposedly from COVID-19? Are there any charts that can tell us? Is anyone keeping track? Is anyone even asking?
Well here is my guesstimate. I'd guess that the typical average of 55,000 Americans died of the flu this year. Another 30,000 elderly people died of natural causes, but their deaths were falsely recorded as being caused by COVID-19. And maybe another 40,000 actually died from COVID-19.
I'm not a doctor, and I'm open to someone completely disproving my guesstimate. Please, somebody, show me some hard data on seasonal flu deaths this year. Because I haven't heard one word about the seasonal flu, ever since the locKdowns began. AND I SMELL A RAT!
Only for the sheep.
George Washington died of COVID. But who cares? He was an old white slave owner.
And, how many of the regular flu deaths were mislabeled COVID19 for political purposes?
It’s truly a miracle! Not a single person has died from the regular flu in 2020.
Stopping right there. Nope, that's not true.
Pneumonia is the bigger killer
And there is a vaccine for it
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
I noticed since the last time I checked this, the CDC is now combining all pneumonia and covid, they used to be separated by covid, covid with pneumonia and, pneumonia ..pneumonia alone was generally higher after the covid peak
How mahy flu deaths were listed as Covid-19 deaths?
If its all around you than its part of your life like it or not, handle it how ever you wish.
It aint F’en going away so go lick some door knobs DH
Past Seasons Estimated Influenza Disease Burden
Just click on any year you care to review.
Good question. Good luck getting honest data from TPTB.
I think the underlying question is what is the normal death rate from all causes that the covid 19 has added to? The regular flu is a small number of the total deaths and is a range. There is a strong likelihood that because the symptoms are the same,some regular flu has gotten mixed in with the covid numbers.
Every day nearly 8,000 people die in the US from all causes. That’s 56,000 per week. At the peak of the covid death curve we hit 14,000 deaths. Now we are under 5,000. When we look back from St. Patrick’s day 2021 we’ll have some idea what the answer to that question is.
My feeling is that a large number of the lethal age group (75+)will have been killed prematurely and are the biggest bump in the curve. They won’t be around to die later in the year. What that number is can’t be known until the year is over.
However the total number of US citizens 75 and over is 21 million. Actuarially the probability that anyone of them will die in the next 12 months is 6%, so the total deaths in the next 12 months from this group will be 1.2 million, or 23,000 per week. I’m guessing it will dip from the above effect.
Put this is in mix. In Colorado, two death numbers are reported, “Deaths Among People With COVID-19, Deaths from COVID-19”. Deaths among means someone died of say, cancer, but test positive for CV-19.
Here’s the latest for Colorado:
“Deaths Among”: 1,647
“Deaths From”: 1,429
Worldometer reports the higher number of course. If this is similar in other states, you can extrapolate the amount of overcounting.
Yup.
Dont forget the lower flu death could be tied to the fact that people are physical distancing and not working or getting into crowds. During SARS era flu deaths in japan dropped. Ostensibly due to decreased activity and masks.
That’s it.
All of them.
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