fj12ryder wrote:
RambleOnNW wrote:
ajriding wrote:
World-wide (not counting what china is not telling us) covid deaths have passed the number of flu deaths in a typical American flu season. Fear the reaper!!??
100,000+ worldwide deaths is more than 60,000 to 80,000 deaths from a flu season in just our country.
This is the panic the dishonest media is making a lot of us panic over.
If you are older and have underlying health problems then you should have a little concern of getting any illness, but otherwise statistically this is insignificant.
The federal govt has not locked down anything, lock downs are all acts of the state governors who are buying into the panic.
You are comparing 70 days of covid-19 against 365 days of a flu season (flu occurs worldwide all year). Come back next year at the end of February and update us on the stats.
According to the CDC: "Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May."
CDC estimates this seasons flu deaths at 24,000 to 62,000:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htmBringing up the flu number just illustrates how carelessly accepting American society is about spreading the yearly flu and trivializing the resulting illness and death. People going to work sick and carelessly infecting others reflects poorly on the lack of a national sick leave policy so sick workers can afford to stay home.
