True.
But the above posts are like saying when the Spanish Flu began someone saying it wasn’t a “big deal”, then when the pandemic was over them saying they were “right all along” based on what was happening years later when the virus was far less deadly after the bulk of the population had become immune to it...as though conflating two completely different time periods, mutations of the virus, and levels of immunity of the population can just be conflated like that to make a valid argument. Just shameless nonsense.
For coronaviruses and influenzas, they always mutate to become more infectious but less deadly. But when we have no immunity to it, it can be quite deadly at first. But sometimes we just gotta get through it.
but the Spanish flu was the flu and it’s been gone for how long ?
Covid wasn’t the flu but now it is (per CDC) huh ?
Find a disease that wasn’t the flu that turned into the flu and maybe you might be able to make an analogy.
doesn’t seem like shameless nonsense despite your anecdotal evidence.
as of 03/2023, Johns Hopkins had the fatality rate of confirmed cases at 1.1%.
so a 98.9 survival rate ? over all time periods and all mutations.
Plus is appears 200+ million didn’t get COVID? So what is the over all survival rate ?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
i suppose i could be reading this wrong ?