Putting COVID In Perspective

• The average death rate for people who contract Covid-19 is well below 1% and is much closer to that of the seasonal flu than figures that were commonly reported by the press. (ed. and yet there has never been anything close to a “lockdown” for any type of seasonal flu outbreaks)
• The average years of life lost from each Covid-19 death are significantly fewer than from common causes of untimely death like accidents and suicides.
• The virus that causes Covid-19 is “very vulnerable to antibody neutralization” and has very limited ability to mutate, which make it unlikely to take masses of lives year after year like the flu and other recurring scourges.
• If 500,000 Covid-19 deaths ultimately occur in the United States—or more than twice the level of a prominent projection—the disease will rob about 6.8 million years of life from all Americans who were alive at the outset of 2020. In contrast:
  • the flu will rob them of about 35 million years.
  • suicides will rob them of 132 million years.
• accidents will rob them of 409 million years.
• From Michelle's Mirror