fj12ryder wrote:
RambleOnNW wrote:
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.htm
Bringing 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.
No offense, but I don't think people callously "trivialize" the flu. For one thing, few people are really aware of the number of people who die due to the flu, and resulting complications. Also, a whole lot of people simply can't afford to take time off work just because they don't feel good. And sometimes the flu symptoms are just that: you don't feel very good. Bosses sometimes are less than forgiving if you're taking work off just because "you don't feel good".
No offense, but many people do trivialize the flu. We can tell that due to the low percentage of the population that gets annual flu shots. Those people that are healthy enough to get a flu shot must get it as there are those that cannot get shots. But they still don’t.
The estimated percentage of adults that got a flu shot in 2017-2018 was 37.1%.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1718estimates.htm
