• teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    yes. why would they care? since we have vaccines, covid is just a flu, and it, like a flu, spikes in the winter.

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        2 days ago

        you could also say the same about flu. why don’t you post about flu suddenly spiking in winter (surprisingly) and nobody caring about it?

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          1. COVID-19 spreads more quickly - it is more contagious and is contagious for longer than the flu.
          2. Severe illness is more frequent than the flu.
          3. Long-term effects are far more prevalent and far more severe with COVID.
          4. The ability for a coronavirus to mutate into a variant that is far more contagious and/or far more severe is much higher.
          5. The death rate for the flu is dramatically lower - 1.8 / 100k population than COVID with around a 240-300 deaths per 100k population. More than 1 million people have died from COVID in the US alone vs around 4-6000 per year from the Flu.
          6. People do in fact care about the flu spiking in winter. That’s why vaccines are promoted as much as they are.
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            1 day ago

            is 4 backed by actual research?

            isn’t 5 because of the antivaxx things?

            and, about 6, yes. people care about the flu, but nobody ever says ‘flu is spiking and corporations don’t care’

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              You sound like someone who doesn’t really have a point but needs to argue for the sake of arguing. Maybe you can yell at yourself in a mirror - I’m sure it will be more entertaining.

              Edit: And to be clear… I wrote something in my prior comment that most people would interpret as wrong without some qualification or context. I decided to leave it partly out of laziness and partly to see if you would catch it and how. But instead of digging in you are just being confrontational.

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                1 day ago

                yes, I kinda like debating. But, i also think i have a point though. Sorry if it seemed like i was some kind of troll.

                also, was it point 5? it seems kinda wrong to compare yearly deaths to total.