I am going to use US statistics, and I am going to assume that these numbers are correct and not manipulated for political reasons (which I am sure is a factor, it always is)
CDC statistics show for the last calendar year, COVID has about the same death rate as pneumonia in adult ranges and children are more likely to die of pneumonia than COVID, all of this despite many more people being infected with COVID than pneumonia.
Those that are vulnerable to COVID living in nursing homes/hospitals are just as much at risk of dying from pneumonia (which is rampant in those places, I can attest from having to bury a parent not too long ago) and roughly half of the reported 'COVID' deaths also had pneumonia listed as a complication.
Based on the raw numbers, I don't see how this disease (even if we are generous with statistics) is more dangerous than diseases that already exist and adversely affect the same vulnerable population in the same care facilities.
I was hospitalized with pneumonia in my twenties (I never smoked) and it was a very difficult experience. I could have died, it took me three weeks to recover enough to be discharged. I had breathing issues for a year afterward while my lungs healed.
I would rather take my chances with COVID than get pneumonia again.
I'm not seeing where the rate is, all I see if the total number of deaths which is similar, but without the number of infections it's an apples to oranges comparison. (Although I am tired so I might just not be seeing it)
But, COVID 19 is a risk factor for Pneumonia, so by taking your chances with COVID you're increasing your risk of getting Pneumonia again.
COVID is a risk factor for pneumonia...like all respiratory diseases are. Same goes for the common cold. There's nothing there that makes COVID unique.
There's no way there are anywhere near as many pneumonia infections as there are COVID cases. I can get stats, but I shouldn't have to.
The reality is that you cannot 'hide' the infection from the populace - we should be accepting that we will get it and scale up our medical services accordingly.
However, this is not the proposed solution. Instead, we are shuttering our economy and causing more deaths by destroying people financially.
We know the vast majority of people who catch this aren't going to die from it, so why would we take on the enormous financial burden of trying to self-contain the entire globe when it would be more effective to simply increase the options for treatment?
This solution isn't preventing deaths, it's adding to them. Domestic violence and suicides have increased significantly as a direct result of those policies, and yet we don't get 24/7 coverage of those deaths.
This is very similar to the climate change alarmism of two years ago - they say they want to reduce emissions, but the plan was actually to tax emissions and move production of those emissions from the West to China (where emissions increases were part of their plan, very strange) . Basically the goal was to transfer wealth from the West to authoritarian control.
Fun fact: The US achieved huge emissions reductions by switching to natural gas/shale. The environmental activists never like to talk about that.
The lockdowns achieved the same result. Goodbye small business. Hello Amazon and all of those cheapo goods from China. How convenient.
Pneumonia kills up to 4% worldwide.
I am going to use US statistics, and I am going to assume that these numbers are correct and not manipulated for political reasons (which I am sure is a factor, it always is)
https://healthdata.gov/dataset/provisional-covid-19-death-counts-sex-age-and-state
CDC statistics show for the last calendar year, COVID has about the same death rate as pneumonia in adult ranges and children are more likely to die of pneumonia than COVID, all of this despite many more people being infected with COVID than pneumonia.
Those that are vulnerable to COVID living in nursing homes/hospitals are just as much at risk of dying from pneumonia (which is rampant in those places, I can attest from having to bury a parent not too long ago) and roughly half of the reported 'COVID' deaths also had pneumonia listed as a complication.
Based on the raw numbers, I don't see how this disease (even if we are generous with statistics) is more dangerous than diseases that already exist and adversely affect the same vulnerable population in the same care facilities.
I was hospitalized with pneumonia in my twenties (I never smoked) and it was a very difficult experience. I could have died, it took me three weeks to recover enough to be discharged. I had breathing issues for a year afterward while my lungs healed.
I would rather take my chances with COVID than get pneumonia again.
I'm not seeing where the rate is, all I see if the total number of deaths which is similar, but without the number of infections it's an apples to oranges comparison. (Although I am tired so I might just not be seeing it)
But, COVID 19 is a risk factor for Pneumonia, so by taking your chances with COVID you're increasing your risk of getting Pneumonia again.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-and-pneumonia#1
COVID is a risk factor for pneumonia...like all respiratory diseases are. Same goes for the common cold. There's nothing there that makes COVID unique.
There's no way there are anywhere near as many pneumonia infections as there are COVID cases. I can get stats, but I shouldn't have to.
The reality is that you cannot 'hide' the infection from the populace - we should be accepting that we will get it and scale up our medical services accordingly.
However, this is not the proposed solution. Instead, we are shuttering our economy and causing more deaths by destroying people financially.
We know the vast majority of people who catch this aren't going to die from it, so why would we take on the enormous financial burden of trying to self-contain the entire globe when it would be more effective to simply increase the options for treatment?
This solution isn't preventing deaths, it's adding to them. Domestic violence and suicides have increased significantly as a direct result of those policies, and yet we don't get 24/7 coverage of those deaths.
This is very similar to the climate change alarmism of two years ago - they say they want to reduce emissions, but the plan was actually to tax emissions and move production of those emissions from the West to China (where emissions increases were part of their plan, very strange) . Basically the goal was to transfer wealth from the West to authoritarian control.
Fun fact: The US achieved huge emissions reductions by switching to natural gas/shale. The environmental activists never like to talk about that.
The lockdowns achieved the same result. Goodbye small business. Hello Amazon and all of those cheapo goods from China. How convenient.