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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
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.
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Uh okay, so are you estimating the number if people who had the flu and basing the death rate on that but not estimating the number of people who have Covid but instead using the hard numbers and basing the death rate on that?
That seems like what you are saying and seems like it is not a fair comparison.