annie88 said:
Double Diamond said:
That's just not true. The virus causes many other issues within the body. I've never seen 100k deaths in a few months from other viruses. And saying they are inflating numbers. Well plenty of places in the south under reporting.
Numbers have been very inflated and over reported, not underreported and we lose 50,000-60,000 a year to the flu. So as for saying you've never seen these kind of numbers, you actually have.
This is patently false. Numbers have not been inflated, and you clearly don't know the first thing about what you're saying. The flu deaths that are commonly cited, including by you in your post, are actually just based on
CDC Estimates, and then extrapolated way up to account for underreporting. The CDC has
never exceeded 16,000 confirmed flu deaths in any year in recent memory. The reason they get even close to 60,000 is because the CDC plugs confirmed deaths into a statistical model that roughly quintuples them. Even then influenza and pneumonia deaths are lumped together under the general term of flu. In fact, you can take any random week as an example using
this chart, and find that >90% of flu deaths are actually from pneumonia, but those numbers are all counted for the flu regardless. The counts for Coronavirus are exponentially more accurate by comparison.
You saying that we've seen these kinds of numbers before from the flu is also quite easily disproven. The current count for deaths from Coronavirus in the US is
108,211 as of me posting this. Even using the model-inflated flu numbers and not confirmed deaths like with Coronavirus, the most flu-related deaths we've seen in the past decade is 61,000. So it's really not even close. If you want even more information on just how much more deadly Coronavirus is compared to Influenza you can look at
Table 1 here, which shows how Influenza deaths peak in early spring at around 600 per week compared to the 15,000+ deaths per week Coronavirus caused in April.
