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[spdustin]

Please don’t do this. Your comment history has quite a few violations of the guidelines[0].

     Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Thanks. I could've been more verbose, but my point was/is correct.

[chillbill]

> please don’t do this

Do what exactly? And explain the basis of your accusation

[ESTheComposer]

Yeah I'm not one of those "COVID is less deadly than the flu!1!1!" people or anything, but the reporting is so terrible for COVID that these numbers are very probably vastly over estimated (some European countries and some US states) and vastly under reported at the same time (China).

On the over estimated part, many many deaths are reported as COVID related even if COVID had nothing to do with their death or other factors caused their death.

[guilhas]

Died of any cause up to 60 days of a overly sensitive PCR test, that even it's creator said it can be very easily misused. We could only wish vaccine deaths were counted the same way

Slightly worse than the flu. But definetly over counted in developed nations, and overestimated in developing nations

[ihatepython]

On the bright side, flu numbers were pretty much nonexistent during the pandemic

[dmonitor]

I keep seeing this, but I have a hard time believing Covid is so much more contagious than the flu that it managed to spread like wildfire while the flu ceased to exist in the same timeframe. The entire narrative was that the US was terrible at mitigating the spread of Covid, but if the US was able to mitigate the flu with above and beyond success in that same time period, what anti-flu measures were taken that didn’t effect Covid?

[AHOHA]

Is it? Or wasn’t reported? Or maybe they were counted as Covid deaths, per WHO, Flu causes 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths per year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-%...