Number of deaths for leading causes of death
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
The difference is that the coronavirus may hit a third of the country before all is said and done.
Focusing attention away from what has at the LEAST 10x the mortality rate of the flu would be insane.
It’s not gonna end the world but I think the articles talking about how the flu is worse are outdated and slightly irresponsible.
That article is now more than a month old and stats have significantly changed. Basically good info, but now is old.
Flu Bro’s are a quickly depreciating asset. This story is from Feb 11. It’s been fully depreciated for a long time now.
It really is just another strain of flu, as far as I’m concerned.
We’re certainly not living in 12 Monkeys. :)
Us people under the age of 80 and not already ill with something else really need to get a grip and calm down.
It’s like we live in a world of precious snowflakes. Life is a mist. Snap out of it.
Most people are immune to the circulating strains of influenza, limiting the number of people who are even susceptible to catching the disease. Thus, a few million get sick and deaths are limited to tens of thousands.
No one is immune to the new corona virus, meaning that it has the potential to sweep through and infect tens to hundreds of millions. With the current mortality rate of about 3.7%, this would cause millions to tens of millions of deaths.
Influenza is highly contagious and manages to infect millions despite the public health efforts to contain it and educate the public on infection control measures. The novel corona virus spreads the same way as the flu, since it is also a respiratory virus that infects the upper respiratory tract.
It is to prevent the scenario where millions of people become sick and die that the government is taking such extreme measures to stop it from spreading. It is actually a good thing that people are taking the warnings seriously and taking steps to protect themselves. They decrease their chances of contracting Covid-19 and help to form a barrier that will limit the pandemic.
..the current generation could not handle what my grandparents saw in 1918—whole families dead from influenza...
55 is the new 65
1. The flu is endemic. It's here. We've come to grips with the fact we can't stop it. With a <0.1% fatality rate, society has concluded risk of battling it is worse than risk of tolerating it. We have vaccines that largely work. We can't stop it, but have figured out how to acceptably live with it.
2. COVID19 is new. Most DON'T have it, and with a wave of quarantines we have a chance of ensuring most don't get it, and that it can be eradicated. With a >1% fatality rate, everyone will likely know someone who dies from it (if it spreads as much as naysayers would let it). We have a chance at stopping it.
3. COVID19 deaths will be IN ADDITION TO flu deaths. Let's do what we can to keep those numbers down, m'kay?
4. Hospitals are ready to accept serious flu cases. Hospitals are NOT ready to accept an abnormal wave of 10x casualties on top of already-near-capacity critical-care patients.
And finally: you can over- or under-estimate the problem; which way would you rather be proven wrong?
The mortality rate for the flu is around 0.1%. The average mortality rate for Covid 19 is around 3.5% and in Italy it is twice as high. So Italians are around 70 times as likely to die from Covid 19 as they are from the flu.
Thanks very much for posting perspective. Why don’t the WEAPONS of Mass Hysteria don’t AMPLIFY context 24/7/365. They’re SUPER SPREADERS. Quarantine them.
I got EGADS (Egregious General Anxiety Disorder Syndrome) in kindergarten. One of my classmates said something mean to me. There’s no cure. I’ve had it my whole life.
For any event THINK FAST (Food, Ammo, Shelter (as remote as possible)) Today.
Luckily I’ve dealt with it most of my life...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM
Thanks, Pharrell