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Originally Posted by Blackshep
It's mortality rate is between 1 & 2% people are not dying in droves or dropping dead in the streets the response is out of proportion and increasing amounts of people are agreeing.
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First you compared it to the flu
2018 deaths from flu - 1598
2019 deaths from flu - 1223
2020 deaths from COVID - 72718
2021 (so far) deaths from COVID - 71k (approx.)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/trans...0182019and2020
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...er-2020-report
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ion-in-the-uk/
Now you’re using the old "percentage" gambit, rather than actual figures, but if you compare normal number of deaths in the U.K. (around 600,000) versus the number of COVID deaths (around 70,000 each year in the last two years), not quite so "out of proportion".