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Now do the flu

nuerow 5y ago
> Now do the flu The CDC's estimates for deaths from the flu are tiny and irrelevant when compared with the massive impact of COVID-19. It's estimated that in the past 20 years the yearly number if deaths from the flu peaked at 61k in 2017-2018, which is less than a tenth of covid19's death count. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html Keep in mind that the flu didn't benefitted from public health and safety containment policies such as mask mandates, lockdowns, social distancing, or even changes to workplace higiene. Thus the 730k deaths from COVID-19 are significantly lower than it would be if no precautions were taken.
- sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
  There is a new flu vaccine every year and it is given to everyone, including the most vulnerable people on earth. We also have a covid vaccine now. In the last 30 days, the United States has averaged 2,000 or less deaths per week. Annualizing this comes out to 104k deaths per year. While this number is higher than the 50k ish deaths per year from the normal flu, it is not 750k per year. The people who died during the onset of corona virus were all unvaccinated, mostly elderly, in tight quarters, and almost all of them had underlying health issues from smoking, obesity, and heart disease. Those of us who have survived the initial onset are, based on the official evidence much more able to survive being infected with corona virus.
  - nojokes 5y ago
    When vaccinate, yes.
  - nojokes 5y ago
    At most 50% of adults will get flu shot in US https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-flu-vaccination-rates-by-age/ https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-flu-vaccinat...
    - sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
      70% of people over the age of 65, aka the most vulnerable people, receive the flu vaccine according to your link. I would like to add that they are vulnerable for a few reasons-- the first being that being old is correlated with dying from covid, the second being that old people are more likely to have been pack a day smokers, and the third being that old people are more likely to have heart disease.
      - nojokes 5y ago
        Regardless, when infectious disease is more widespread, they get more hit by it. Wasting medical resources on preventable disease is stupid. It is in everyone interest to get everyone vaccinated.

Now do the flu

> Now do the flu The CDC's estimates for deaths from the flu are tiny and irrelevant when compared with the massive impact of COVID-19. It's estimated that in the past 20 years the yearly number if deaths from the flu peaked at 61k in 2017-2018, which is less than a tenth of covid19's death count. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html Keep in mind that the flu didn't benefitted from public health and safety containment policies such as mask mandates, lockdowns, social distancing, or even changes to workplace higiene. Thus the 730k deaths from COVID-19 are significantly lower than it would be if no precautions were taken.

sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
There is a new flu vaccine every year and it is given to everyone, including the most vulnerable people on earth. We also have a covid vaccine now. In the last 30 days, the United States has averaged 2,000 or less deaths per week. Annualizing this comes out to 104k deaths per year. While this number is higher than the 50k ish deaths per year from the normal flu, it is not 750k per year. The people who died during the onset of corona virus were all unvaccinated, mostly elderly, in tight quarters, and almost all of them had underlying health issues from smoking, obesity, and heart disease. Those of us who have survived the initial onset are, based on the official evidence much more able to survive being infected with corona virus.
- nojokes 5y ago
  When vaccinate, yes.
- nojokes 5y ago
  At most 50% of adults will get flu shot in US https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-flu-vaccination-rates-by-age/ https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/adult-flu-vaccinat...
  - sushsjsuauahab 5y ago
    70% of people over the age of 65, aka the most vulnerable people, receive the flu vaccine according to your link. I would like to add that they are vulnerable for a few reasons-- the first being that being old is correlated with dying from covid, the second being that old people are more likely to have been pack a day smokers, and the third being that old people are more likely to have heart disease.
    - nojokes 5y ago
      Regardless, when infectious disease is more widespread, they get more hit by it. Wasting medical resources on preventable disease is stupid. It is in everyone interest to get everyone vaccinated.