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I've read more than one story about the numbers being unreliable. People who die of other causes but test positive for covid being listed as covid deaths and such. I'm confident that all this hysteria isn't going to make a difference anyway. Next year we will have a flu season again. Will we shut the planet down again?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that swine flu infected nearly 61 million people in the United States and caused 12,469 deaths. Worldwide, up to 575,400 people died from pandemic swine flu.I don't care who you are, that was fuckin funny....The OP tried getting rid of his HIV the same way.
The OP does have a point though, it's better to just get the fuckin bug, get over it and drive on. It's not like this is some flesh eating virus or something that kills as bad as the Swine Flu did. By the time I got H1N3 it damn near killed me and the wife. The kids were up playing in 2 days, we were down for 2 weeks. The Wuhan Cold isn't nearly as bad. I'd rather get it now than the strain that comes up in 10 years.
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COVID-19 is already getting close to killing as many people in the US as the swine flu did in 2009. 12,500 estimated deaths from swine flu in 2009, COVID-19 is over 8,000 in a few months.
Swine Flu: Death by Influenza - Verywell
www.verywell.com/swine-flu-death-by-influenza-3978919
Yep. COVID-19 is virtually certain to kill more people in the US than the 2009 swine flu did. It's hard to be certain of the numbers, unfortunately, but I've seen different sites showing the US at over 8,000 deaths or even over 9,000 deaths. We're nowhere near the 2 bad flu epidemics of the 50s and 60s yet, thankfully.