RoshawnMarkwees
Assimilationist
The global death rate for the flu is anywhere from 300,000 to 650,000 and Covid so far has killed 500,000.But it hasn't killed more than the typical flu.
The death rate of any illness, is the total number of people infected, by the number of deaths.
What we on the right-wing have all known for long time, is that the number of actual infected is dramatically higher than the number of known confirmed infected.
They are checking blood from blood donations, and found many show signs that the person who donated the blood has already had Covid-19. People that didn't go to hospital, or even didn't have any symptoms.
That means that the death rate, is lower than the flu. Do we shut down the economy for an illness less deadly than the flu? Of course not. Ridiculous.
Instead we should have simply isolated people who were sick... just like Japan and Sweden.... and we should have protected nursing homes, where the most-at-risk people were.
Half the deaths in New York City, were in Nursing homes where Cuomo forced known Covid patients back into those places, and killed everyone.
That should have been the focus. Not trying to shut down half the economy.
Yes, COVID-19 has killed far more than the typical flu. It could have a lower death rate and kill more than the flu. It would just need to infect more people. The flu is estimated to have killed an average of under 40,000 each flu season in the US. COVID-19 is estimated at over 120,000. The death rate doesn't change that.
Whether the government reactions to COVID-19 were appropriate is, in large part, a separate question. Certainly it has been far from perfect at many levels.