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I'm not saying it's not more severe than common fever, it obviously is. But even before covid-19 people were in ICUs at a similar late due to respiratory issues from seasonal influenza. The numbers were comparable if you look at the numbers from previous years. Also all deaths are being tied to covid as long as covid is in their system at the time of death. That is why numbers for deaths related to natural reasons are low, and influenza related numbers are low.
Coronaviruses is common cold/flu. Covid-19 is an evolved form of coronaviruses.
Also the recovery/survival rate is over 99%. Meaning it's not just the athletes in a bubble recovering with no treatment or hospitalization. It's also all the regular joes/average citizens out there. You are looking at the worst case scenario. Look into details of the worse case scenario when it comes to other illness and other accidents. Widen your research range and you'll see the deaths from illness/accidents have always been high even before covid-19.
Also hospital bills have always been high. It's like 5-10k just for a ride in an ambulance.
I'm not saying it's not more severe than common fever, it obviously is. But even before covid-19 people were in ICUs at a similar late due to respiratory issues from seasonal influenza. The numbers were comparable if you look at the numbers from previous years. Also all deaths are being tied to covid as long as covid is in their system at the time of death. That is why numbers for deaths related to natural reasons are low, and influenza related numbers are low.
Coronaviruses is common cold/flu. Covid-19 is an evolved form of coronaviruses.
Also the recovery/survival rate is over 99%. Meaning it's not just the athletes in a bubble recovering with no treatment or hospitalization. It's also all the regular joes/average citizens out there. You are looking at the worst case scenario. Look into details of the worse case scenario when it comes to other illness and other accidents. Widen your research range and you'll see the deaths from illness/accidents have always been high even before covid-19.
Also hospital bills have always been high. It's like 5-10k just for a ride in an ambulance.
ICUs were not filled at a similar rate with the flu. Nor were they having to load corpses into refrigerator trucks because they were out of room to store the dead from the flu. Nor were they calling in retired health care workers to help due to emergency staff shortages from the amount for patients they were handling during flu season.
Nor did the average cost of being treated at the hospital for the flu cost an average $26k-$40k. Nor does the flu have still yet to be fully comprehended lasting damage to organs like the brain and lungs.