Originally Posted by
Nvrgofullretard
2018-2019 influenza deaths- 61,200
Covid first case-feb 26th
US deaths- 34,180
In 2 months we have seen half as many fatalities as influenza, and the country has adopted social distancing as a mitigation factor. You can quote .01% or whatever, but this thing infects EVERYONE. If it gets into a nursing home almost everyone will die.
For the love of god, use your big brains on this.
Please stop saying this is just the flu. Run the numbers yourself instead of listening to fox trying to compare this to HIV or SARS.
I’m not justifying shutting down the economy, but stop deluding yourself trying to say it’s just the flu. It’s not, and the people that do this **** for a living agree.
From the CDC
Influenza deaths (estimates) these numbers are USA only:
2010-11 37,000
2011-12 12,000
2012-13 43,000
2013-14 38,000
2014-15 51,000
2015-16 23,000
2016-17 38,000
Next two are preliminary estimates from CDC
2017-18 61,000
2018-19 34,157
The cases of USA influenza ranged from 21 mil. to 45 mil. (I threw out 2011-12 of 9.2 million as an outlier)
As of the morning of the 17th the CDC says we have 690,714 cases of COVID-19 with 35,443 deaths from it
WorldOmeter at end of day (Zulu) listed cases as 709,735 with 37,154 deaths.
I suspect we will be well over 38,000 dead at end of today as 2000 plus per day are dying from it. This in 2 months, with the majority in just one month. Now go back and compare to 12 month numbers regarding influenza plus the deaths versus total cases.
NYC has borne the brunt of this.