Originally Posted by casual observer

I'm onboard with the opening they're working on now, but the flu deaths and the covid deaths are not apples to apples. Flu kills 30-60,000 without mitigation. Covid will kill 60,000 by Aug 4th with significant mitigation. Without mitigation would probably be about 30 times greater or 1.8 million. That's probably too many.

Additionally, flu takes people out for about a week. Covid seems like sometimes a month or more. Covid also seems to impact some people with longer term problems (like the broadway actor that got his leg amputated, reduced lung capacity, kidney and liver problems, etc.

Also, not sure, but flu deaths seem less violent. And the biggest problem is that it's transmissible when you're not showing signs of illness. So, you don't know if you're jacking the people around you.

I think we need to open back the economy ASAP and as responsible as we can. I don't think Covid is like a bad flu.