The question no one is asking: How many people died of regular flu this year?

I think you’re pretty close.

I have never seen a delusional push like I have seen in the last 3 months.
The government put trillions out there to grab however you can.
The hospitals are taking a beating and, are fudging for dollars.
This election year is fascinating, exciting, terrifying all at once.

24,000 – 62,000 flu deaths The number of hospitalizations estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates. - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

In March, the CDC reported,.

The overall cumulative hospitalization rate was 67.9 per 100,000 population, which is higher than all recent seasons at this time of year except for the 2017-18 season. Rates in children 0-4 years old and adults 18-49 years old are now the highest CDC has on record for these age groups, surpassing the rate reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Hospitalization rates for school-aged children are higher than any recent regular season but lower than rates during the pandemic. . (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIActivityMap)(Retrieved 3-17-20)

Laboratory confirmed influenza-associated hospitalization rates for the U.S. population overall are higher than most recent seasons and rates for children 0-4 years and adults 18-49 years are the highest CDC has on record for these age groups, surpassing rates reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Hospitalization rates for school-aged children (5-17 years) are higher than any recent regular season but remain lower than rates experienced by this age group during the pandemic.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2 (Retrieved 4-06-20)" Mortality surveillance: Based on National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance data available on March 26, 2020, 8.2% of the deaths occurring during the week ending March 21, 2020 (week 12) were due to P&I. This percentage is above the epidemic threshold of 7.2% for week 12.

Basically my opinion will be informed by this-

How many Americans died of all causes in 2019.?

How many Americans died of all causes in 2020?

if I don’t see a significant increase in deaths in 2020 I’ll know it was basically a flu replacement.

10,000 more deaths and I’ll figure COVID hit us for 5-10,000 people.

We’ll see.

Just went to the CDC website. They estimate that for the 2019-2020 flu season (Oct 1st 2019 through April 4th 2020) somewhere between 24,000 and 62,000 died from the flu. I’m not kidding. So why should we have confidence in Covid-19 nunmbers?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

Your link was as of March 11th 2020. Covid-19 deaths were just getting started at that time.

I suggest you do a search on “Covid-19 dashboard.” Then I like to select “trends” then “deaths.” You can select different states, or countries. US Deaths are down. Same with the states that I have looked at. The death data has periodic drops. Delayed reporting for the weekend?

Your link was as of March 11th 2020. Covid-19 deaths were just getting started at that time.

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