briskjackal5 said:lol no way
I honestly have no clue who told you that, but I am pretty sure they were lying to you.
-Steve
Hasn't everyone been comparing him to Grip since the very beginning, both here in the States and abroad?🤔
Didn't Rudan basically admit he regrets comparing the virus to the flu? I guess it's because none of us ever take the flu that seriously anyway.🤔
mellowotter36 said:What did we establish? I don't even remember posting here in the first place.
Over the last month, from the coronavirus in the Chicago area, 1,617 people have passed away. Between 2012 and 2019, the total number of deaths in March looks like this: 879, 768, 811, 956, 914, 887, 890, 886. Even if you count every single natural death as a COVID death, your theory still doesn't explain this massive anomaly.
That’s just not how statistics work.
Estimates for how many people actually catch the flu are always just educated guesses. With COVID, those projections are easily ten times higher than the official confirmed case counts. Because of that gap, we probably won't have any real, accurate data on this until the whole epidemic has finally run its course.
We also have to take into account that Italy was absolutely hammered because they lost control of their quarantine measures and allowed the virus to spread among those with chronic conditions. On top of that, they were trying to admit every single COVID patient into hospitals. That’s why you ended up with situations where morgues were overflowing in certain areas. It basically turned hospitals into infection hubs for the most vulnerable people.🤔
We won't truly know the full scale of the damage until the end of the year. It'll be interesting to see how many lives were actually lost versus how many people simply had their lifespans cut short by a few months. It’s pretty obvious we're going to see a massive drop in mortality rates from the flu and other typical illnesses once this epidemic finally settles down.
Once you see how long this decline is actually going to last, you might want to start making those calls. It’s pretty sobering to realize just how much COVID has cut short life expectancy over in Italy.
Just a side note here—I really hope they don't start playing those statistical games where they try to double-dip on the numbers. It would be a joke if someone dies from COVID but gets logged under a different disease category just because they argued that lowering cancer stats would mess with the public perception of risk (which we all know is just code for protecting funding). Plus, let's be real: it’s just not logical to claim someone in stage three lung cancer died of COVID when they were already battling both. You can't just pad two different lists with the same person.
velvetstag5 said:Show me where you read that.
In America (with a population of about 330 million), we see around a hundred cases during bad seasons.
If you multiply that by 15, then Italy should be looking at 1,500,
not 15,000.
Something definitely doesn't add up here...
If you look at their agency statistics, things were actually even worse a few years back, climbing toward 25k.🤔 These are official figures being released while the population is busy getting vaccinated.
