Originally posted by flea beetle
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quote fleabeetle:" will go back to DML's numbers about New Zealand. 3519 cases and 26 deaths in nearly 2 years. And everybody is sounding the alarm that Covid is coming and going to most definitely kill you. Yet the flu, which has been around for ages, infects nearly 2,430,000 people, and kills around 1000 people in New Zealand every 2 years and nobody gives it a second thought "
So 26 deaths/3519 cases = death risk of 0.7% from Covid
1000 deaths/2,430,000 cases = death risk of 0.04% from the flu
The risk of dying from Covid is nearly 17.5 times higher than dying from the flu. And this is in a country with modern medical equipment and staff. Should measures not been imposed to slow the spread and the health system was overwhelmed the death rate would quickly escalate to much higher levels.
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