More than 650,000 people have died so far around the world, more than 150,000 people have died in the United States. This is despite a massive economy-rocking effort to "flatten the curve" and an unprecedented-in-100-years effort to mask up and isolate and avoid interacting with other people.
Blaming "media" for any part of this, or for exaggerating its horrors, seems so wrong-headed it's unclear where to begin.
You tout a conspiracy theory even while linking to Snopes demonstrating that said theory is nonsense.
I hope that neither you nor anyone you love ends up fighting for their life again COVID-19. Wear a mask, and stay home.
> This is despite a massive economy-rocking effort to "flatten the curve"
In the US, that was largely a complete failure because everywhere started reopening because New York’s case numbers were going down while the rest of the country was going up, and everyone declared “mission accomplished”.
> 650,000 out of a global population? More people have died from seasonal flu every year
No, more people don't die every year from seasonal flu:
“The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths”
COVID-19 is so far an entire order of magnitude ahead of flu for the season, and COVID-19 is still going strong. You could hardly be farther from correct!
In the US, the CDC recorded 15,620[0] deaths due to flu for the last season. We are already ten times that for COVID-19 and still losing people every day.
They extrapolate from the 15,620 confirmed deaths that many more deaths are due to the flu but not tested as such, and so they estimate a range that centers around 42,000 for the last year. That range is still less than one-third of COVID-19's known minimum, and a check of "excess death" figures suggests that next year, the CDC will have a similar statistical model suggesting deaths are several times higher than we know right now.
Again, you are off by anywhere from 10 to 30 times.
No, the usually usual annual range of total flu deaths being 250k-500k doesn't make a claim that every year more than 650k die from that cause close to being correct. 650k is not even close to being less than 250k.
1) links to stats please? 2) we're not even near a full year of coronavirus 3) this is the amount of deaths after all the measures taken to slow the spread.
Blaming "media" for any part of this, or for exaggerating its horrors, seems so wrong-headed it's unclear where to begin.
You tout a conspiracy theory even while linking to Snopes demonstrating that said theory is nonsense.
I hope that neither you nor anyone you love ends up fighting for their life again COVID-19. Wear a mask, and stay home.