The main conclusion is that COVID is a virus we wouldn't even notice if not for media coverage, and political theatre like forcing healthy people to wear masks while NOT SICK.
Not one person reading this has noticed any more deaths in the last two years compared to the previous 20 before that.
Some 84-year-olds died two years early. That's literally all that those deaths were.
When you consider LIFESPAN LOST, this pandemic was not even noticeable.
That doesn't stop rafts of Canadian idiots thinking 800,000 random Americans of all ages dropped dead, mostly Republicans. LMAO...fucking idiots.
No one dying wasn't one foot in the grave already.
-Some things to think about:
Using U.S. CDC stats, 855K people died since its onset with or of COVID. No doubt the majority of these deaths involved people with comorbidities, including old age and poor health. The total of known COVID cases is 68.1 million. The cumulative number of COVID hospitalizations is 878,613. With the exception of the COVID deaths, these numbers are not a lot worse than those for influenza over a two year period.
These are the CDC flu stats for comparison:
"The overall burden of influenza for the 2019-2020 was an estimated 35 million flu-related illnesses, 16 million flu-related medical visits, 380,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and 20,000 flu-related deaths"
Unfortunately available numbers are only an estimate for the 2020-2021 flu season. So, let's just double the flu numbers shown above for the sake of ease. This gives us 40,000 flu related deaths, 70 million flu related illnesses, and 760,000 flu-related hospitalizations.
In conclusion dramatically fewer people died from influenza (40,000) than from COVID (878,613). Some people think COVID is just another "flu", They are obviously wrong. Another possible conclusion when comparing the number of flu and COVID hospitalizations verses deaths, it is pretty clear COVID admissions more likely result in patient time in ICU. It also shows that compared to the influenza virus, COVID is a much deadlier virus.
In my opinion, your dismissive attitude towards COVID, particularly as it relates to people dying from it, is unconscionable. "One foot in the grave."
Tell me Matt, how old are your parents? Do they enjoy good health? Are your grandparents still alive? If so, how are they doing?