Of course the saying dates back to/refers to the Black Death which killed 30%-60% of the European population before it played out. I'm betting people took that a tad bit more seriously. Estimated deaths are between 70-200 million. The total estimated deaths world wide from Covid? Rougly 4.5 million. That's still alot but definitely not in the same class.
I think the main point also is that a lot of the deaths were preventable. Having a loved one die of a preventable disease b/c of human ignorance sucks. I went to a covid funeral last month for a friends father that could have gotten the vaccine but didn't. It sucked.
Normally I wouldn't bring this up because I try not to depress people. But if what you said is true, then you may understand how I feel.
I lost someone to COVID as well. It happened right around the time the vaccines started rolling out (I think it was May). She could have been saved but she wasn't. I hadn't seen her in years, but I was still sick with grief for 4 days. I could barely move, I had to force myself to eat.
But that was just me, I can't imagine how people who lost someone actually close to them must have felt.
It’s not that people don’t wanna avoid it, it’s that people wanna get back to their normal lives and treat it like what it truly is, “basically the flu”.
no, it's not the flu. it's 3 times deadlier and 10 times more likely to result in hospitalization. This disinformation bullshit needs to stop.
source: john hopkins "COVID-19 vs. the Flu"
If you look at the number of covid deaths for 2020, it matches pretty close to flu deaths for 2019. Also, if you look at flu deaths for 2020, there was 700 and some for the entire US.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsper100klast7days
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total cases: 38,341,339
deaths: 631,440
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Thats a .016% death rate
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covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime
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Super majority of those are 75+
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I lost someone to COVID as well. It happened right around the time the vaccines started rolling out (I think it was May). She could have been saved but she wasn't. I hadn't seen her in years, but I was still sick with grief for 4 days. I could barely move, I had to force myself to eat.
But that was just me, I can't imagine how people who lost someone actually close to them must have felt.
source: john hopkins "COVID-19 vs. the Flu"
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Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html
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https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+deaths+2020&oq=covid+deaths+2020&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l2j0i457i512j0i512l6.5104j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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total cases: 38,341,339
deaths: 631,440
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Thats a .016% death rate
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covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime
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Super majority of those are 75+