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There is so much misinformation online and in this thread. Take off the s of that figure in the US. That is a lie, the death count is only over a hundred thousa

There is so much misinformation online and in this thread. Take off the s of that figure in the US. That is a lie, the death count is only over a hundred thousand and COVID-19 deaths at their peak accounted for only 20 % of deaths In the country. So everyone had an 80% chance to die from something other than COVID-19. Today you have about 95% chance of dying from something other than COVID-19 in every age group. While it reasonable to be afraid of death, you should now be much more afraid of dying from other causes than dying from COVID-19. The curve has more than been flattened.

Balgair 6y ago
> The curve has more than been flattened. Maaaaybe, but it sure has 'flattened' at a very high number of cases and the death curve seems to be rising still https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gfx-virus-tracker%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gfx-virus-tracker%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
- smaryjerry 6y ago
  That article doesn’t provide any meaningful information on deaths. It does saying they are “spiking” in certain states but any review of data in the US will show that deaths are not increasing nationwide and the “upticks” in COVID-19 deaths are very very small compared to the history, every person who actually views the data would call it flat. We are talking about a roughly 70% decrease in deaths from COVID-19 from the peak. As I mentioned you used to have 22.25% chance a death was caused by COVID-19 and now if you die there is only roughly 5% chance it was from COVID-19 and that number doesn’t even require laboratory testing to verify, if they thought COVID-19 was a likely cause of death without testing it is still counted in those numbers.
  - Balgair 6y ago
    US deaths on July 1st were ~700, on July 23rd they were ~1100. The deaths histogram seems to be going upward to me.

Balgair 6y ago

> The curve has more than been flattened. Maaaaybe, but it sure has 'flattened' at a very high number of cases and the death curve seems to be rising still https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gfx-virus-tracker%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gfx-virus-tracker%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...

smaryjerry 6y ago
That article doesn’t provide any meaningful information on deaths. It does saying they are “spiking” in certain states but any review of data in the US will show that deaths are not increasing nationwide and the “upticks” in COVID-19 deaths are very very small compared to the history, every person who actually views the data would call it flat. We are talking about a roughly 70% decrease in deaths from COVID-19 from the peak. As I mentioned you used to have 22.25% chance a death was caused by COVID-19 and now if you die there is only roughly 5% chance it was from COVID-19 and that number doesn’t even require laboratory testing to verify, if they thought COVID-19 was a likely cause of death without testing it is still counted in those numbers.
- Balgair 6y ago
  US deaths on July 1st were ~700, on July 23rd they were ~1100. The deaths histogram seems to be going upward to me.