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Originally Posted by Marcellus
The numbers for the flu are understated and the CDC websight clearly tells you that.
And I am not comparing it directly to the flu, thats not what I said.
Now keep in mind this only KNOWN positives not asymptomatic or low symptom cases. Average age 81. Its not that deadly to people under 65 period.
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The fact that you think that info is dispositive perfectly explains why you don't understand the debate.
You know how many people under 65 died of the flu last year? 8,000.
How many people under 65 died of COVID when the death toll was at 68,000? 13,300. It's obviously higher now, but we'll go with this depressed number just to show how off you are.
How many people were infected with the flu last year? 35 million had symptomatic illness alone. Antibody studies put our population at no more than 5%, which means that, at most, you'd have 16 million infections.
So, a disease with twice as many infections had 60% of the deaths for the people under 65, which makes it, at best, 3 times less deadly for that cohort.