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> orders of magnitude more fatal Really? From what I understand the IFR for covid without vaccination was somewhere in the range of 0.5% to maybe 1%, versus t
by mcpackieh 3y ago
> orders of magnitude more fatal
Really? From what I understand the IFR for covid without vaccination was somewhere in the range of 0.5% to maybe 1%, versus the flu at 0.1%. 10x worse; that would be one order of magnitude. That's for the normal flu, the Spanish Flu was much worse than either, about 10% e.g. two orders of magnitude. At three orders of magnitude you're already talking about near certain death.
- JohnBooty 3y agoApologies, but I'm certain you've misread the parent post to which I was responding. They wrote: Another example: Covid. It's a coronavirus. Know what else is a coronavirus? The common cold. But because Covid was novel [...] They explicitly (and rather unbelievably) compared COVID-19 to the common cold, not the flu.