Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Sorry, but it's not a flu. It is easily contagious like a flu, butt's way more deadly. There's a reason the whole world is taking it seriously. This talking point that "it's just a flu and the media is blowing it up" becomes a dangerous political game that's gonna jeopardize the recovery, and even further delay the economical rebound.
The typical flu has a iFR (fatality rate) of likely 0.1% or less.
This paper is updated regularly as new data is peer reviewed, the last update was April 17th:
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global...atality-rates/
Taking account of historical experience, trends in the data, increased number of infections in the population at largest, and potential impact of misclassification of deaths gives a presumed estimate for the COVID-19 IFR somewhere between 0.1% and 0.36%.*
It is now scientifically within the realm of possibility to say COVID-19 is no deadlier than a typical flu. It is likely more deadly, but traditionally as pandemics evolve the CFR and iFR decrease.
It is currently inaccurate to say "it is way more deadly than the flu". This is not politics, this is international science. But of course this will become very political, and rightly so. Because the crap is about to hit the fan.
I strongly urge everyone to read the section of the research "Estimating COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rates (IFR)". It is an enlightening read on the mischaracterization of the severity of this virus.