O RLY?
Fox News has a Coronavirus Category with 5 new stories this month
If you’re going to be an alarmist asshole you might as well avoid adding a bunch of lies to your headlines in addition to it.
although i agree with the post title being a bit incorrect, and your comment of “alarmist asshole” not really called for, its not front page news and that’s because people are over COVID and could care less while people who are at risk from severe infection are getting it and dying still. People are just going to get super sick and say “yeah its a flu covid is over so it cant be that”
yes. why would they care? since we have vaccines, covid is just a flu, and it, like a flu, spikes in the winter.
What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.
you could also say the same about flu. why don’t you post about flu suddenly spiking in winter (surprisingly) and nobody caring about it?
- COVID-19 spreads more quickly - it is more contagious and is contagious for longer than the flu.
- Severe illness is more frequent than the flu.
- Long-term effects are far more prevalent and far more severe with COVID.
- The ability for a coronavirus to mutate into a variant that is far more contagious and/or far more severe is much higher.
- The death rate for the flu is dramatically lower - 1.8 / 100k population than COVID with around a 240-300 deaths per 100k population. More than 1 million people have died from COVID in the US alone vs around 4-6000 per year from the Flu.
- People do in fact care about the flu spiking in winter. That’s why vaccines are promoted as much as they are.
is 4 backed by actual research?
isn’t 5 because of the antivaxx things?
and, about 6, yes. people care about the flu, but nobody ever says ‘flu is spiking and corporations don’t care’
You sound like someone who doesn’t really have a point but needs to argue for the sake of arguing. Maybe you can yell at yourself in a mirror - I’m sure it will be more entertaining.
Edit: And to be clear… I wrote something in my prior comment that most people would interpret as wrong without some qualification or context. I decided to leave it partly out of laziness and partly to see if you would catch it and how. But instead of digging in you are just being confrontational.
yes, I kinda like debating. But, i also think i have a point though. Sorry if it seemed like i was some kind of troll.
also, was it point 5? it seems kinda wrong to compare yearly deaths to total.
