Actual cases and deaths from Covid I believe are around 10% of reported. Great majority of (senior citizen) deaths would have died anyway from regular flu or other ancillary causes due to pre-existing conditions. Case numbers greatly inflated by false positives and/or outright manipulation. Great percentage of positives have a cold or minor flu symptoms.
“Follow the science” is as hollow as “Russian collusion”.
I cringe thinking of the lives and businesses that have been destroyed or set back for decades because of this fiasco. Now just wait for property taxes to skyrocket due to a years loss of revenue by the state and local govts.
I’m looking for data on total “COVID + Pnemonia” deaths for the 2019-2020 season, to compare to the “Flu + Pnemonia” deaths for the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons. It is weird how hard it is to find out how many people die each year from the “flu-related illnesses”, we report “flu deaths”, and the rest are just reported as whatever killed people.
BTW, I expect their to be a large uptick in flu cases this year, although maybe our social distancing and mask-wearing and hand-washing might mitigate it. NOT because more people get the flu, but because every person with a symptom is going to get tested. We’ve already had one positive flu case at my facility, they got tested for COVID and it was negative.
In the past, most people with mild cases would not bother to get tested for flu, but with COVID everybody gets tested.