Never forget that Red State was Never Trump during the election.
The current Case Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is 98,658 deaths / 1,666,015 known cases = 5.9%.. That's 59 times the flu CFR of 0.1%
The Infection fatality rate of either is anybody's guess.
The article claims Fauci knew the numbers he was quoting in March when he said COVID was 10 times more deadly that Flu. But they present nothing in the article to back up that claim. They drag out a Fauci quote from February when Fauci thought it would about like the flu. As though Fauci is not allowed to upgrade his earlier too optimistic assessment.
They misuse numbers from the CDC and act like Fauci is somehow responsible for the CDC numbers they misused.
They acknowledge the difference between CFR and IFR and then go on to use them alternately in a confusing jumble.
I’m not a statistician, or a scientist. As a layperson, I look at where the rubber hits the road. How many people died, and how does that compare to other times? As far as I can tell from what I hear, we’re getting in the neighborhood of 100,000 deaths in this country, which will likely go to, maybe 150 by year’s end? What I’ve seen of the flu is that a bad-ish year is 80-100,000. The kind of year we have a couple of times a decade. When we don’t do everything imaginable to destroy the economy, and tear apart the fabric of a society and culture. Now, I do respect people’s desire to distance themselves, and I wear a mask in the stores to make others comfortable, but I also try to keep some perspective, and be as active as I can. As for your analysis, why don’t we have 59 times as many deaths from the Covid virus as we usually do from the flu? Just asking as a stupid paperhanger who didn’t major in science.
I appreciate your opinion, but think RedState spelled it out quite well.
What bearing does RedState’s Never-Trumper status have here ? None, unless there is still some anti-Trump sentiment still there. They’ve wisened, obviously, trying to get to the truth.
You are still a full of it lockdown apologist.
Go elsewhere.
Lol, you’ve been a fear monger since day one and now that the cat’s out of the bag and we know the numbers have been rigged you simply can’t face it.
You are behaving like a Democrmat who still believes in Russian collusion.