Remember when Everybody Panicked about a recent epidemic

[Spock]

that killed almost 200,000 Americans.

Yeah, me neither.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/how-the-m ... n-america/

>>>>Here’s a less biased, but less catchy, comparison: 2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.

The CDC estimated that about 177,000 Americans died during the 2017-2018 flu season, from either the flu itself or by complications of pneumonia.<<<<

[silverscreenselect]

An apples-to-oranges comparison.

You cherry pick the worst flu season in a couple of decades, add to that pneumonia deaths whether or not attributable to the flu, and compare that to what is currently seven months of coronavirus deaths, mostly in the warmer spring and summer months, that in most cases exclude every death that's not directly attributed to the coronavirus.

[Buffacuse]

"Less biased?" The New York Post? Less biased than what...Pravda?

C'mon...really.

[Bob78164]

An apples-to-oranges comparison.

You cherry pick the worst flu season in a couple of decades, add to that pneumonia deaths whether or not attributable to the flu, and compare that to what is currently seven months of coronavirus deaths, mostly in the warmer spring and summer months, that in most cases exclude every death that's not directly attributed to the coronavirus.

And with all of the social distancing that's in place. Imagine what the numbers would be like if we'd continued to live our lives as though everything were normal. --Bob