Hey, i mean to keep this completely separate from our other thread, but has your thinking on the deadliness of Covid changed at all? I remember we had an exchange months ago on whether it was a normal flu virus or something more serious.
If you believe it's a normal flu virus you're retarded
The kungflu has "an Infection Fatality Rate of around 0.2% – 0.26% https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf (not too dissimilar to a bad seasonal flu)"
Any question?
Well, for example, total deaths haven't increased significantly between 2019 and 2020. Where you would expect to see the highest increase in total deaths, the geriatric community, they have remained more or less flat, but heart attack deaths have gone down. This alone would suggest that Covid-19 is not a unique, more deadly disease than common flu, but rather clever marketing. The causes of death are being reassigned. If Covid-19 was a 'deadly pandemic', shouldn't there be more... death?
This datapoint alone is enough to show that Covid is not signficantly different from a normal seasonal flu. Flu is something you have every year (as is heart disease). So if you have flu + Covid, you ought to have more deaths than you would have with flu alone. Instead, you have the same amount of deaths, but deaths from flu (and all other causes) decreased. That would indicate the deaths from other causes are being attributed to Covid.
>This datapoint alone is enough to show that Covid is not signficantly different from a normal seasonal flu.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
Coronavirus Cases: 1,921,778
Deaths: 67,894
Recovered: 1,226,086
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1). The number of influenza-associated illnesses that occurred last season was similar to the estimated number of influenza-associated illnesses during the 2012–2013 influenza season when an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness6.
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Population of Italy: 60,317,116
Population of USA: 308,401,808
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While having a population 5 times smaller than the US, italy got more death from covid in less than a year than the US got from the "afluenza" in a year... So it's not exactly just the seasonal flu
You aren't going to fool the entire world medical community with a mere "marketing trick", to fool them you need to confront them with something new, something different they aren't prepared to deal with, something out of the ordinary, something they don't know, to catch them off guard, so you can easily force them to default to "better be safe than sorry" position. Because otherwise it's not going to work, too many will call it "just the flu"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_humans
>Coronaviruses vary significantly in risk factor. Some can kill more than 30% of those infected, such as MERS-CoV, and some are relatively harmless, such as the common cold.[50]
What I do know for sure is that I'm not a virologist, and that covid19, is as much the same as the seasonal flu as MERS was
You see, all bullets are bullets, and both 9mm and .22 can kill. Now as you probably know, it doesn't mean 9mm caliber is the same thing as .22 just because both are relatively small
https://pic8.co/sh/5P6sl5.jpeg
And then you have 20mm... That's still called a bullet while in reality it should start to be called minimissile
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All that being said it is evident that quite a number of death were wrongly attributed to covid, at least in the US. There are enough articles floating around to drive the point home quite easily
Now it doesn't mean covid19 is harmless or not even real or "just the flu"
And it certainly doesn't mean that some people aren't going to capitalize on the covid19 crisis to advance their agenda
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