Originally Posted by
Bigdd
Exactly my thoughts.
So far we see 9,400 deaths worldwide [[as compared to 646,000 for the flu in 2018, the last year we have data for, which was admittedly a bad year).
And we have 160 in the USA from Covid-19, as compared to 61,099 for the flu in 2018. [[last year we have numbers for)
So in the USA our death rate [[so far) is ONE QUARTER of ONE PERCENT of the flu in '18.
Granted it got a late start here. Had it "already been around", it might have been 2-3 x worse,... and had economy crippling measures not been taken,.. it might have been a couple times worse than that. But even then,.. aren't we looking at something 4% as bad as the flu?
On the world scale,.. that 9,400 v.s. 646k makes it 1.5% as bad as the flu was in '18.
I think the media is off the deep end again.