But why did 900,000 EXTRA people die?
Was this just a CRAZY coincidence?
Because they did die.
If 500,000 with people with Stage IV cancer who have 18 months to live get a new flu strain and die this year instead of next year, we're going to have 500,000 excess deaths this year.
What you and Hulkster ignore is "lifespan lost": it's not that COVID didn't kill 900,000 people, it's that your side goes around acting like 900,000 random Americans have died of it.
That's simply not true.
These people were the oldest, fattest, and most vulnerable Americans. I would say they definitely had an average lifespan lost of under ten years.
I'd even say the average lifespan lost was under five years.
An 84-year-old with five diseases isn't exactly predicted to life to age 100.
So now you have to look at this pandemic mathematically to see how many lifespans we a fully lost:
Assuming that each person had ten years left to live [bullshit], that would be 900,000x10 years = 9M lifespan years lost.
With an average lifespan of 80 years, that's 112,500 [9M ÷ 80].
So to all the dumbasses comparing this to WWII - to that's bullshit. In WWII, something like 650,000 American males who were something like 22 years old on average, died fighting in that war, who had 57 years left to live on average.
650,000x57 = 37,449,000.
37.4M compared to my 9M figure for Covid.
In reality, Covid probably took under five years off the lifespan of the anyone who died of it.
But hey - I'll go with ten.
It's was still nowhere near the cost that we spent on trying to contain it.