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Disclaimer: I do not wish people to suffer from coronavirus or die from it, but at least, the same people who are the most vulnerable have the least to lose.

Let's assume that someone dies at age 91 from coronavirus instead of 94 due to heart failure, missing out on around three years.

What exactly do they miss out on?

Three years of misery, pain, disability and dependence.
Think about it: How is daily life at that age? Not so nice, to put it politely.

Again, I do not wish anyone to die from coronavirus, but maybe it helps some people to know that the elderly people who died from corona virus have not lost much.

If some 16-year-old teen dies from a motorbike accident, he has lost alot. But not the 9X year old who died a few years of misery earlier.

**Disclaimer:** I do **not** wish people to suffer from coronavirus or die from it, but at least, the same people who are the most vulnerable **have the least to lose.** Let's assume that someone dies at age 91 from coronavirus instead of 94 due to heart failure, missing out on around three years. **What exactly** do they miss out on? Three years of misery, pain, disability and dependence. Think about it: How is daily life at that age? Not so nice, to put it politely. ---- Again, I do **not** wish anyone to die from coronavirus, but maybe it helps some people to know that the elderly people who died from corona virus have not lost much. If some 16-year-old teen dies from a motorbike accident, he has lost **alot.** But not the 9X year old who died a few years of misery earlier.

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[–] • 4 pts

I worry about my folks and mother-in-law the most. I might die, but I don't have to deal with it... I'd just be dead; but I don't want to lose them to something stupid like this.

But I probably won't die. I stocked up on TP.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

more people have died from influenza than coronavirus this year alone JUST IN THE UNITED STATES

CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

>more people have died from influenza than coronavirus this year alone JUST IN THE UNITED STATES

You can't count for shit just shut up you moron

It's over 2,000,000 dead that you'll get with corona with a death rate at 2% for 40% of the US pop infected

Influenza killed 80,000 people in the US for 2018, and that was the absolute worst year ever since 2010

Even if you got that for 10 years the total wouldn't even be half of what corona is projected to achieve you dung

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/482794-officials-say-the-cdc-is-preparing-for

>Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told The Wall Street Journal that "it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40 to 70 percent of the world's population likely to be infected this year.

[–] • 0 pt

These numbers are dependent on numbers tested. If you don't get sick enough to seek medical care, you won't get tested and won't count in those numbers. This is the one variable being ignored.

Don't believe the current mortality rate, it is horribly skewed because it is based off people who have been tested positive 2 times.

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Well then chances are numbers are much higher then regarding infection

And the overall rate of death likely remains unchanged

It's 2% death in a "normal" setting on average

Dead people are dead people, they aren't tested twice

https://epidemic-stats.com/

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[–] • 1 pt

But coronavirus is more infectious and has a higher mortality rate per person, as far as I know.

[–] • 1 pt

CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.

[–] • 0 pt

Interesting.

But doesn't the CDC also promote circumcision (genital mutilation)?

Last time I checked, they did.

[–] • 0 pt

i dont belive a single thing that comes out of china, it is media hype

[–] • 2 pts

China is asshole.

But news out of non-commie Korea is promising... but then there's Italy and their hordes of "migrants" who are dropping like flies and making the death rate sound scarier while they lick shrines or babydicks or whatever it is they surely lick.