On big subs, like worldnews.
Like, a lot of people quoting one CDC report on IFR that presented COVID as less dangerous, without actually knowing the difference between CFR and IFR. Despite the fact that the numbers (in the report) are still very fucking high.
I hear more and more people saying that countries overreport deaths, based on some anecdotal evidence (one time a bike crash was reported as a COVID death), which is complete bullshit, of course, easily checked by looking at excess deaths.
Absolutely braindead comparisons to seasonal flu, as if seasonal flu isn't
- less dangerous
- a huge fucking problem and a cause of millions of deaths
Chapos, COVID is the most deadly airborne virus pandemic since spanish flu, and the most deadly virus since HIV/AIDS.
Oh yeah, I say "since HIV/AIDS", but HIV/AIDS pandemic is still happening. Literally millions of people die. We haven't cured it. Who said that we'll cure this one?
Also, you cant really compare coronavirus to HIV, but if we look at annual deaths, then HIV was at its peak at ~1.9 million deaths (in 2005, I think). Compare that to COVID. This is just the first 7-8 months of the pandemic and we already have more than a million deaths! That is, despite the fact that:
- Deaths are seriously underreported (I'm talking 30-50% just in the US. Imagine fucking Brasil. Russia? In Russia its way worse).
- Coronoviruses are seasonal and they peak at winter
- The whole world went into lockdown for months.
Holy shit, I fucking can't.
One thing that pisses me off as of very recent is the supposed stat from the World Health Organization that an estimated 1/10 of the entire world population has had COVID-19 and then of course a majority of the comments went to downplay the pandemic because of this very number, people complaining about lockdowns and et cetera.
Like yeah alright, let's ignore the fact that in just seven months a (confirmed) 215K have died, much more than the flu could in the span of an entire year, or the fact that even if you don't die that you could be left with long-term or lifelong effects. If we can assume the case count is much higher than what is known likewise the death toll is much much higher.
How does 10% had it mean that it's not that bad. We didn't overwhelm most medical systems, are still not doing great and have to sixtouple this number to achieve some kind of heard immunity. If this came out in April, ok. But like this... It means we have to socially distance for another three years until we can even think of heard immunity (ignoring vaccines for this example). Plus, this doesn't even mean that 10% are immune. The virus can mutate or your antibodies can decrease over time. Asymtomatic patients didn't show any antibodies 3 Monath after their infection in one paper. If anything this number says we are still 90% fucked.
Oh yeah, that was the post that pissed me off