Why do I need to plug numbers in? The CDC provides the state by state death rate. I will provide the link again in case you missed it. It seems as though you're intentionally inflating and deflating numbers when it suits you. From all accounts that I've read the seasonal flu avg. death rate is .1% not .2% that you keep saying. The Maryland Covid death rate is between .3% and .7% according the the CDC not .5% that you've lowered. If you need to fudge and skew the numbers in your favor that tells me all I need to know. Once again the Covid death rate is 3-7 times more deadly than the seasonal flu in Maryland. That's without seasonal flu social distancing measures and with Covid social distancing measures. You don't need to hypothesize, use slight of hand statistics or jedi mind tricks to understand that the seasonal flu would be even less than .1% with social distancing measures and Covid 19 would be far more deadly without social distancing measures. Social distancing has kept Covid 19 at 3-7 times more deadly than the flu. Without these measures Stevie Wonder can see that it would be far worse. Any further discussion is beating a dead horse.
https://www.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/
Ask yourself some simple questions. I'm not even asking you to contort yourself into a pretzel to answer them.
Here goes:
Have you ever known anyone to get the flu and never knew they had it... like covid? Have you ever heard of the CDC previously lumping 'died with' together with 'died of' - or worse, merely 'presumed' died of.
And finally, in our history can you find at any time we put over 20 million people out of work and told everyone when they could leave their house as a result of models that were always wrong.... or changing directives like don't wear a mask then wear a mask.... or because the elderly were primarily dying and over half were in nursing homes?
Maryland Covid death rate is between .3% and .7%
Elderly dying of other illnesses lumped into the numbers... check the posted chart above:
nursing home total other % nursing home
Maryland Best data - Wed - staff 13-May 995 1,643 648 60.6%
seasonal flu would be even less than .1% with social distancing measures
This is the key phrase of the post.... the new normal: the wearing of masks of submission... the elimination of leaving your house - inclusive the removal of the Constitutional right of the freedom of assembly petitioning the government.... the closing of legal businesses at whim...all because a politician and some bureaucrat decides its flu season.
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