Originally Posted by
Flyinguy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTHuCOjAy8
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020...orse-than-flu/
Keep in mind the .1% flu death rate is including the 50 some percent that gets vaccines. Of those that don’t, can’t, or get the ‘wrong strain cocktail’ die. So that .1% chance is not even including the entire population.
COVID-19 is showing a .1% death rate (and lowering daily as we find out more). We are finding out much more infected people (which lowers death rate). And we aren’t even considering how many false death rates attributed to COVID-19 which we will learn in the future when there are 0 deaths from heart disease in 2020.
I get that it spreads way faster than flu, we need to protect at risk folks ala Sweden. That is risk mitigation and harm reduction..
The current death rate due to the Cvirus in the US (26Apr2020) is 0.32.
Based on the US flu death rate of 0.1, and the average number of flu deaths per year (over the past 9 years, of 37,400), we should expect about 120,000 US deaths in this 12 month cycle.
The Swedish death rate as of 26Apr is now at 0.69. If we had the same rate as Sweden, we would expect about 260,000 US deaths in the 12 month period.
We had about 50,000 Americans die in combat during the Vietnam War, which lasted about 30 years. We have had 55,415 Cvirus deaths to date, so we are already over the Vietnam War casualty number...in a few months...