Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't US death rate trajectory from COVID-19 Kung Flu still less that the H1N1 death trajectory? So far it looks like COVID-19 will kill less people than H1N1 (swine flu) of 2009-2010 here in the US. Am I wrong?
Little talked about fact, H1N1 is the strain of influenza that caused the much touted "Spanish flu" outbreak of 1918. It's been around at LEAST 100 years, so if you count the entirety of its death toll, then CoV-19 has a LOT of catching up to do.
Just limiting it to the bad flu season of 2009-2010, so far H1N1 is still worse. It's unusually more dangerous to people between the ages of 25-65, while CoV-19 only seems to be really dangerous to the same elderly or chronically ill people that any common cold virus can kill.
Here's the real trick, though. H1N1 wasn't "that bad" either. Around 3.8 MILLION Americans die every year. Pneumonia as a complication from flu or colds is in the top ten causes of death for every age group 0-25 and 65 and up EVERY YEAR. Whenever a specific virus gets famous for killing more than its share, it generally means FEWER people are dying from all the other viruses.
As a result, all-cause mortality barely changes. The odds of you dying from any viral infection are still lower than the odds of you dying in a slip-and-fall accident. Of course the MOST likely cause of death BY FAR is old age, but that doesn't sell the papers.
You could take every person infected with this shit right now, kill them all, and it wouldn't be a blip on the annual mortality rate.
This shit is so overblown it's ridiculous. I don't like Bill Mitchell, but he phrased it correctly: It's a viral pneumonia that the media is making people believe is the black plague.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't US death rate trajectory from COVID-19 Kung Flu still less that the H1N1 death trajectory? So far it looks like COVID-19 will kill less people than H1N1 (swine flu) of 2009-2010 here in the US. Am I wrong?
Little talked about fact, H1N1 is the strain of influenza that caused the much touted "Spanish flu" outbreak of 1918. It's been around at LEAST 100 years, so if you count the entirety of its death toll, then CoV-19 has a LOT of catching up to do.
Just limiting it to the bad flu season of 2009-2010, so far H1N1 is still worse. It's unusually more dangerous to people between the ages of 25-65, while CoV-19 only seems to be really dangerous to the same elderly or chronically ill people that any common cold virus can kill.
Here's the real trick, though. H1N1 wasn't "that bad" either. Around 3.8 MILLION Americans die every year. Pneumonia as a complication from flu or colds is in the top ten causes of death for every age group 0-25 and 65 and up EVERY YEAR. Whenever a specific virus gets famous for killing more than its share, it generally means FEWER people are dying from all the other viruses.
As a result, all-cause mortality barely changes. The odds of you dying from any viral infection are still lower than the odds of you dying in a slip-and-fall accident. Of course the MOST likely cause of death BY FAR is old age, but that doesn't sell the papers.
You could take every person infected with this shit right now, kill them all, and it wouldn't be a blip on the annual mortality rate.
This shit is so overblown it's ridiculous. I don't like Bill Mitchell, but he phrased it correctly: It's a viral pneumonia that the media is making people believe is the black plague.