On big subs, like worldnews.

Like, a lot of people quoting one CDC report on IFR that presented COVID as less dangerous, without actually knowing the difference between CFR and IFR. Despite the fact that the numbers (in the report) are still very fucking high.

I hear more and more people saying that countries overreport deaths, based on some anecdotal evidence (one time a bike crash was reported as a COVID death), which is complete bullshit, of course, easily checked by looking at excess deaths.

Absolutely braindead comparisons to seasonal flu, as if seasonal flu isn't

  1. less dangerous
  2. a huge fucking problem and a cause of millions of deaths

Chapos, COVID is the most deadly airborne virus pandemic since spanish flu, and the most deadly virus since HIV/AIDS.

Oh yeah, I say "since HIV/AIDS", but HIV/AIDS pandemic is still happening. Literally millions of people die. We haven't cured it. Who said that we'll cure this one?

Also, you cant really compare coronavirus to HIV, but if we look at annual deaths, then HIV was at its peak at ~1.9 million deaths (in 2005, I think). Compare that to COVID. This is just the first 7-8 months of the pandemic and we already have more than a million deaths! That is, despite the fact that:

  1. Deaths are seriously underreported (I'm talking 30-50% just in the US. Imagine fucking Brasil. Russia? In Russia its way worse).
  2. Coronoviruses are seasonal and they peak at winter
  3. The whole world went into lockdown for months.

Holy shit, I fucking can't.

  • GottaJiBooUrns [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    There are other undesirable outcomes besides just "death." For many people even just being sick and missing a week or even just a few days of work can be devastating. And a fatality rate of 0.6% is actually fairly high for an infectious disease. Combine that with covid's INSANELY high virulence rate and you have a recipe for a huge amount of deaths, regardless of those deaths only being a small fraction of total cases.

    Take a lap.

      • sempersigh [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        People died in hospitals laying in hallways packed with people waiting for a bed. The bodies were put on freezer trucks and there was mass graves being dug.

        This happened in new york city in the summer. It was all over the news and there's still people pretending like that shit didn't just happen

    • Churnthrow123 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      That's just bullshit fear mongering spread by Big Tech, and you all know it. The shear amount of bed-wetting and straight up guilibility the Left has when it comes to Covid is fucking shameful