Me: "Now I get that's worse than the flu-for-under-50."
But thank you for the exact worse-ness.
You: "The fatality rate for flu is about 1/3 to 1/4 COVID in all age groups except children < 14."
4 times worse certainly sucks ... and I think many of us expected it was going to settle around here in the 'nasty flu' area ... and I knew CDC came out with yet another adjustment to their fear mongering numbers ... I just didn't realize CDC had dropped it into into same-order-of-magnitude levels. Surprised to hear the government say it. I guess the stats were getting overwhelming and they could only maintain the panic levels for so long without losing any semblance of relevance to the discussion.
See post 53. Est. COVID-19 deaths in the USA will have to be round 200,000 in order to compare with the Asian flu, yet even that would not provide a precedent for the extreme long-term all-ages Covid captivity.