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Influenza deaths per day (143) are at a similar scale right now as covid deaths (280) with covid. If we compare lower respiratory disease as a whole without counting covid it is a significantly higher rate (428).
As far as I'm concerned the pandemic is over and covid is no more a concern than other common diseases.
In mid-2020, Fauci said 20,000 cases a day was bad and unacceptable. We're at about 200,000 cases a day now.
We just had every major news network clear the decks and spend virtually every minute of air time to cover the deaths of 20 people who were shot in Texas. But hundreds of people dying every day gets no coverage. More people died from COVID-19 during the time that that shooting was taking place than died from the shooting itself.
And what about the more than one million people who died needlessly? When will there be accountability for that? Don't their greiving family members count?
> In mid-2020, Fauci said 20,000 cases a day was bad and unacceptable. We're at about 200,000 cases a day now.
Looking at cases and not deaths, especially over long periods of time is not helpful. We have different strains and different ways to handling the disease now. 20K cases int he past equated to a lot of death, 20K cases now equates to relatively little death.. apples and oranges.
The fact is the death rate is minimal and at a rate comparable, and even below, many common disease, the pandemic is over.
> We just had every major news network clear the decks and spend virtually every minute of air time to cover the deaths of 20 people who were shot in Texas. But hundreds of people dying every day gets no coverage. More people died from COVID-19 during the time that that shooting was taking place than died from the shooting itself.
They were stupid for putting so much emphasis on 20 deaths out of 300 million people. They would be almost as stupid for focusing on a disease that is causing a death rate comparable to common every day diseases like the flu.
> And what about the more than one million people who died needlessly? When will there be accountability for that? Don't their greiving family members count?
People die during pandemics, its tragic and we should learn from it and figure out how to better handle it in the future, no doubt. But that doesnt change the fact that the pandemic is over and COVID is no more worth our attention than the flu at this point.
