JGalt
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After Covid-19? This must be an article from the furture or one of them rightwinger fantasies.
We are well over 300,000 deaths compared to same period last year. If it's not mostly older people then who the f is it?
For reasonable person the virus has been mostly a non issue since it was discovered that it's one hundredth as lethal as it was thought to be at the start by many. It's rapidly becoming a bad flu - and for most people not even that.
No black death...
Norman, lets get real, you don't know anything about reasonable.
Overall deaths are well above normal and thats true EVERYWHERE with Covid-19 outbreaks.
If you average the low and high number of coronavirus deaths per day since the virus was first detected Jan. 20, 2020, it can only attributed to about one out of ten total deaths each day since then.
"As of November 24, 2020, an average of around 936.5 people per day have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. since the first case was confirmed in the country on January 20th. On an average day, nearly 8,000 people die from all causes in the United States, based on data from 2019. The daily death toll from seasonal flu, using preliminary maximum estimates from the 2019-2020 influenza season, is an average of almost 332 people. Based on the latest information, more than one in ten deaths each day can be attributed to COVID-19 since January 20th."
U.S. COVID-19 average deaths by day | Statista
And? Death rates are much more stable than many imagine through the annual cycle. So although Covid-19 effects are only a fraction of all the reasons people die it is still plainly visible to anyone not blinded by idiology.
2018 is what a bad flue season looks like, it's not anywhere close to the excess deaths during 2020.
Try looking at a bigger picture, instead of a small slice of history. The number of deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic make this look like a sniffle.
1918 Pandemic lasted 2 years and you are comparing about half a year worth of data (first deaths in March) to that.
Total death count for 1918 pandemic is at about 675,000, so yes, it is worse than the expected 400,000 death toll for Covid-19 occuring 100 years later, in a much more medically and socially advanced age.
So whats your point? That because death toll for 1918 pandemic was worse, 2020 pandemic is not bad?
No, it's not at all that bad. I had it and even though I'm a 70 year old pack a day smoker with COPD, it was gone in three days.
So much for the Great Wupocalypse of 2020. Ho hum.