CV19 virus is the first virus to get intense social media attention, correction welcome. So why aren’t we hearing about loss of taste and smell symptoms like we were last year, people now ostrasized for merely testing positive, the tests possibly rigged anyway.
In other words, are CV19 statistics basically indistinguishable from the seasonable flu that we’ve learned to ignore?
In fact, since you have to get infected with a virus in order to make natural herd immunity work in my non-medical opinion, a positive CV19 test with no loss of taste or smell may simply mean that your natural herd immunity is protecting you.
Insights welcome.
Good question, but the answer is no. Annual flu causes an average of 36,000 deaths per year in the US. In 2020, overall deaths (forget about what cause - just the total number - to avoid any questions about whether something was categorized correctly; dead is dead) rose by 18% over 2019. A normal year-over-year increase is 0.3% - 0.7%. From 2018 to 2019, total deaths rose 0.5%. But in 2020, they jumped 18%. Over 530,000 new unexpected deaths out of the blue, with a bunch of unexpected deaths appearing in March and April, particularly in New York and New Jersey.
So on the one hand, you have normal flu deaths at 36,000 total in a year, and on the other hand you have 530,000 extra deaths in 2020. The two just don't line up at all.