This is a dangerous statement far too many people won't stop making. At risk of cliche, you're doing the apples and oranges thing. If the number is similar, that's irrelevant - flu season's comin' and going as per usual, as well as the people that die of covid. It's an AND, not an OR.
It's only dangerous because it's true. They are counting ALL flu and pneumonia deaths as covid deaths. If you had covid antibodies in you when you died from drowning, you were counted as a covid death. They HAD to count all those in order to make the numbers look like something they're not.
If covid was a thing, we'd still have normal flu and pneumonia deaths ON TOP of the covid deaths, so the numbers would be much much higher than they are now.
it is the vulnerable that will be the most at risk - healthy people never were, the whole point of all of the precautions was so that they wouldn't have to die.
Then why make those not susceptible wear a mask? If you're at risk, stay home or wear a mask. Don't force 99.999% of the rest of the world to do it.
And if masks actually worked, why did they have to let all those felons out of prison? Why not have them wear a mask and keep them there?
And if a virologist wears sealed plastic from head to toe while he's working on a virus, what makes anyone think putting a bandanna on their face will protect them? That's like saying it's ok for kids to pee in the pool because they have bathing suits on. Literally.
The covid virus = .1 to .4 micros in size. The opening on a cloth face cover is 200 to 400 microns depending on what you have. Even the box of ear loop masks that all businesses are making customers wear say right on the box they don't protect from covid...
Quote from 3MTHIS PRODUCT IS AN EAR LOOP MASK. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT A RESPIRATOR AND WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY PROTECTION AGAINST COVID-19 OR OTHER VIRUSES
can kill people, it does kill people and it will continue to do so unless we do something to stop it.
It killed less than 10,000 people in a country of around 350,000,000 people. That's 0.0003%. We've never done this for these kinds of numbers. Not even close.
You were told it was going to kill millions and be the worst pandemic ever by fear mongering politicians and the media. It's not. By a long shot. It's not even worse than the worst flu and we don't shut the world down over that.
There are already studies out showing the loss of human years from shutdowns will far, far exceed the loss of human years from covid if we would not have shut down.
If you've been lucky enough to not have lost someone you thought you had substantial time to cherish with remaining then I'm happy for you, and you should be too. But this attitude is a direct affront to the exponentially bigger number of people than the "died with, but not of" COVID statistic. Keep believing what you want but don't spread this poison around,
I personally know more people that have lost their jobs (14) and lost their businesses (3) from this shut down than people I personally know that ever had it(1), or even know anybody that has it(3). I also know one person that killed himself when he couldn't pay his debt when his company closed after the shutdown, so technically I know more people that died from the shutdown than people that died from covid.
if nothing else for the people that are still hiding away from their loved ones because they don't want to die.
I have no words....