Dumb Swedes and their Daily New Deaths from Covid.

It depends on the flu. H1N1, Type A, Type B or Spanish? 

In any case, they will range from 0.08 to 0.13%. But you may be wrongly referring to the number of people that die in total because in June and July the flu doesn't propagate like it does in the fall and winter. Yet, even with about 6 to 8 months of dormancy it manages to come back every year. Hmmm...so staying inside for 2 weeks was going to end COVID-19 that spreads even faster? Come on man. Use some common sense. The shutdown was a waste. 

Well, they did a good job of making the Karen side of the argument. What they failed to address is the lack of immunity built up by society. We have been bombarded with flu from the day we were born. To some extent, we have built up an immunity to it even though it is changing. Second, we have developed vaccines, tests and procedures for handling flu cases that range from minor to life threatening. 

With COVID-19, we started the year with no immunity, no vaccine, no treatment and no understanding of how it was spread or how it would progress. As a result, it is spreading faster than the flu (and it may always do that, we don't know yet), treatments are an evolving progress that appear to be improving and we are still working to improve testing and develop a vaccine.

So, in some ways, yes, it is wrong to compare the two. But in other ways the comparison is helpful. If you know that the average person has as good of a chance of surviving COVID-19 as you do the flu, it is safe to say most will eventually accept that small risk as a part of life. 

I know what the point of the stay at home order was, but most think it was to end the virus. It can't and won't. That's why all this caterwauling about a rise in cases is stupid. And no, the time of year doesn't matter because we are talking about how many people die who get it. If you want to talk about how many die per year, that is fine. But that number is somewhat skewed because the flu is dormant during the summer months.  

Page up and you'll see that a scientific analysis indicates that Covid-19 is 50 to 100 times more deadly than influenza.

You would think that the doctors would have noticed sooner that like almost everyone they were putting on ventilators was dying.  That perhaps maybe a different treatment would work better.

Dr Bob puts 5 people on ventilators.  4 are dead within hours one is barely hanging in there and if he survives he will have serious lung damage.

Dr Bob puts another 5 on ventilators throughout the week.  Same results.

This goes on for weeks.  After about 50 deaths Dr. Bob goes "Oh gee, ya know, these ventilators don't seem to be helping.  It almost seems like they are killing the patients.  Maybe I should try something else."

They monitor that in everyone. But they treated the virus like pneumonia. They still report this virus as if it is related to pneumonia, which it is not.