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I feel like they know that they can't make people care for covid ever again. We're not better prepared if something like this happens again, quite the opposite, the next pandemic is gonna me a grade a shitshow. I work for a lot of different people, and a lot of them still can't wait to tell me their take on covid, and pretty much all of them are in agreement that they would never get vaccinated again.
I mean it's here to stay, what is there to care about? It's the same as the flu or strep throat or the cold, you can get vaccines if they're available, you can wear a mask in public if you want to protect yourself more but it's just a fact of life now.
Those 800 people that died of covid probably pails in comparison to the number of people killed by the flu.
CDC statistics show that in 2022, just short of 6,000 people died of influenza. That's about 16 per day.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm
You picked a year where covid protocol statistically skewed the data lower than normal
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/2021-2022.html
Normal per year is typically around 20k deaths, but can go up to 50k
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/past-seasons.html
Okay, 800/day is nearly 300k/year, so your argument is still weak.
Or maybe you didn't read:
759x52= 39,468/ year which is around the flu but higher, makes sense since covid is newer. That's also assuming that the week in question is not an anomaly, which we don't know.
My argument is significantly stronger than your data handling
Not at all the same, that shit will give you a chronic disease.
Haha wear a mask in public he says. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/states-dust-off-obscure-anti-mask-laws-to-target-pro-palestine-protesters