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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
So at the moment, Covid appears to be killing at a rate of 2x the flu.
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Can't find the thread now, but the annual estimates of how many people flu kills are pretty suspect. If you drill down on them, there isn't much there there. So it's funny to see all these people who are trying to persuade themselves and everyone else that Covid isn't much worse than the flu trying to debunk the Covid numbers by comparing them to estimates of flu mortality that are themselves potentially way overstated.
That aside, the idea that Covid is killing at a rate of 2x the flu is nuts. When it spreads in the population, as in NYC and Georgia, it kills many more people than the flu kills, as is obvious to anyone who even thinks for a second about what has happened in hospitals in that area. Minimizing those deaths by mixing in lots of areas where Covid is not widespread but the flu usually is a dumb trick. We know from NYC that the mortality rate for Covid is much higher than the flu -- it just hasn't spread as widely as the flu usually does, in part because we don't shut the country down every year to keep the flu from spreading. And that's because the flu isn't nearly as serious.
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