the thing is, people who listen to this idiot are going to believe this
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If she had said "for people under 30" it would match the chart, unlike her dishonest claim. However, it would still be a misrepresentation of the data. It's quite possible the death rate for people under 30 is higher than flu, but the sample is too small to measure a tiny rate.
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The flu numbers from the CDC are also an estimate from a mathematical model because deaths from the flu are under-reported and most cases aren't detected:
cdc.gov/flu/about/burd
My impression is that the COVID-19 stats are raw data based on number of deaths and detected cases.
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South Korea also has universal health care and you'd want to be comparing against flu numbers based on their health care system instead of the US.
What I was saying about the mortality rate for young people is just that the sample size isn't large enough to actually measure it.
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of course none of this has anything to do with the fucked up cult that's trying to get a whole lot of people killed here right now
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I think even the people not trying to downplay it are missing some things. Italy ran out of ventilators and had to choose a portion of the infected people to give up on which they did based on age. How will work in the US, which is headed for an even worse situation than Italy?
That South Korean mortality rate data is based on a universal health care system that's not overwhelmed. It's potentially far scarier than those numbers make it seem. Also, short term mortality rate isn't the whole picture and we don't know if people even get long-term immunity.
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