ponyboy wrote:On your point 2, I am comparing apples to apples, Jason. See second column (Estimate for Symptomatic Illnesses) on Table 1 here:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.htmlIFR for the seven flu seasons starting in 2010 is .14
And, as pointed out previously, using the same formulas, the CDC believes the IFR for this is between 0.5 and 0.85.
Think about it holistically. We are still way under the average number of flu infections, and have 200K deaths in the US. Whereas the worst flu season in a long time had 60K deaths. That in itself tells you beyond any reasonable doubt that the death rate for this is greater than 3x worse, because already, even with a lower number of infections, the number of deaths is over 3x higher.
And, you didn't respond to point one. Hopefully there is a recognition that the only person who started comparing it to the flu admitted that he thought it was much worse than the flu, and that he mislead everyone because he thought he public couldn't handle it.
Can you imagine if Bush had made up a false story on 9/11 because he thought we couldn't handle the truth?