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The US government estimated that the asian flu pandemic had a CFR (case fatality rate) in the American population of 0.1 %. [1] The US government estimated that
by hristov 3y ago
The US government estimated that the asian flu pandemic had a CFR (case fatality rate) in the American population of 0.1 %. [1] The US government estimated that Covid-19 had a CFR in the american population of 1%. [2]
So Covid was only ten times deadlier. But certainly we should have had the same response. Those "libertarian" organizations are getting less and less veiled about their hatred of humanity. Sometimes I wonder if they are some extra-terrestrial cockroaches in human shells out of Philip K. Dick story out to wipe out all humans.
Note that the above is understating things because the 1% Covid CFR number is dilluted by a lot of later covid cases when people were vaccinated and the later less potent virus strains were out. In the beginning with the original strain and the deadly delta strain and no vaccines Covid was much deadlier than that 1% number.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pandemic#Mortality_estimates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pa...
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451339/
- Aloha 3y agoI think the lockdowns are a mixed bag, yes many people didnt die from COVID because of them - but many (smaller number) people did die of things not COVID from them. I still think on a numbers perspective that the lockdowns saved more lives than not locking down would have - but it does not help the cause of "keeping that tool in the public health toolbox" to not acknowledge the externalities of its face - its not a completely benign policy without externalities - its just significantly less bad than the alternatives. I think we should study this more, to try to form a consensus when a lockdown is appropriate. I think a COVID scale illness is, but when does that cease to be true? half of one? 3/4? who knows, we've not spent much time thinking about it yet.