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I agree with the grandparent that we aren't worried enough about the large percentage of people that can't work at home but your statement that "would suggest t
by SeyelentEco 7y ago
I agree with the grandparent that we aren't worried enough about the large percentage of people that can't work at home but your statement that "would suggest that a worse-than-average flu season" is not backed by any science. There are 12-60k deaths a year from the flu according to the CDC (last year is in the 24-60k range). There are 37k deaths from COVID right now and the number is still increasing at non-linear rates. This is /on-top/ of the flu deaths. So this isn't just "a slightly worse flu season".
- bpodgursky 7y agoI don't mean to suggest that this won't be worse than the flu when all is done, but you're comparing global COVID-19 deaths to US-only flu deaths (US COVID deaths are about 3,000 right now, not 37,000).
- SeyelentEco 7y agoI misread the data. I assumed it was global, but it was US only data I was looking at.
- akvadrako 7y agoFor the record global flu deaths some years are about 600k. There is a good chance the lockdowns are saving more lives due to the normal flu then covid. https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html
- dntrkv 7y agoPoster above was not equating COVID to Influenza. They were making a point that at a certain point we have to weigh the tradeoffs of halting our economy versus saving X numbers of lives.