I think there are three stories here:
First, the tests are flawed.
Secondly, the number of people who have been exposed and processed the virus is probably much higher than we know, despite the faulty "false positive" tests.
Thirdly, that despite the high numbers of positives, either as a result of junk tests, but probably as a result of the highly communicable nature of the virus, the death rate continues to fall.
Ergo, it's just the Flu Bro.
We’re all infected.
perusing the CDC this morning to get a sense of how they arrive at their estimates each of flu illnesses and deaths each year.
I am using 2018/2019 as an example
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
Seems like the death to illness ration in any given year is 1,000 times.
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1). The number of influenza-associated illnesses that occurred last season was similar to the estimated number of influenza-associated illnesses during the 2012–2013 influenza season when an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness.
35,500,000 ÷ 34,200= 1038(I’ll use a simple 1,000 as my denominator below)
So, lets pretend there have been 100,000 covid deaths this year. I say pretend because the people doing the counting are pretending as well and classifying every death they can as Covid, which in many cases was never tested for and in others was not the primary cause ie gunshot victims in Washington state being classified as Covid death, not lead poisoning.
That would put at about 100,000,000 million infected which I’ll caveat again as being too low.
We are told this virus propagates faster than any other virus ever and does everything but make my bed and a cup of coffee.
My numbers are just as much of a guess as theirs and I am not allowing that this thing has spread faster because that would make their case worse and weaker. I could use the WHO
But, sticking with their numbers the mortality of this thing is par with the flu.
If my math is right 100,000 ÷ 100,000,000= 0.1%
Flu rate for 2018-2019 was 34,200 ÷ 35,500,000 = 0.1%
PS
I could have used the WHO Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Situation Report – 46:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200306-sitrep-46-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=96b04adf_4
While the true mortality of
COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the
number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number
of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower.
Total Bullshit