11 February

Two sayings we need to understand I think. 1) ‘Covid is just like the flu’. 2) ‘More people die with Covid, than die of Covid’. Both things Covid minimisers or deniers say every day. Both dangerous rubbish, and here’s why. The vast majority of people who die of influenza actually don’t. They die of pneumonia. In other words, they die WITH flu, not OF flu. Which is why the deniers add up flu + pneumonia deaths, when they compare with Covid deaths. (I’ve added US data for the last 2 years in the picture, just for interest.) But Covid not only kills a LOT more people than flu, alone. It triples the pneumonia deaths as well. It’s a killing machine, next to which flu is puny. Covid kills about 200 times more people than flu. That’s 20,000% more deaths. And we’re letting it. Nearly every person I know is acting like the pandemic is over.