3 ms·
It's a useful metric to toss back at the Just the Flu crowd.
by pupppet 6y ago
It's a useful metric to toss back at the Just the Flu crowd.
- CivBase 6y agoNot really. If you want to convince people that COVID-19 is significantly different the seasonal flu, all you have to do is compare COVID-19's ~500k death toll in 2020 to the flu's ~50k average death toll for recent years. That said, I haven't heard of anyone using the "just the flu" argument since the first couple months of the pandemic.
- pupppet 6y ago>That said, I haven't heard of anyone using the "just the flu" argument since the first couple months of the pandemic. I'm jealous of the circles you run in.