One thing I don't get is why saying C19 is "Just another Flu" is somehow taken as downplaying the virus. Seasonal Flu kills as many as 600,000 people annually. Do their lives not matter because they are taken by a regular old virus and not a novel coronavirus? And why doesn't the media report on every strain and mutation of the seasonal flu that could cause "long term effects"?
The seasonal flu is a severe disease. Let's say it kills 600,000 people on average per year. That is not measured like the Covid death are measured in most countries. For the flu they take the excess death to estimate how many people died. But the majority of people are not tested. Whereas we are doing extremely hard counter measures against Covid-19, and we still have more deaths than for the seasonal flu. And the flu and Covid-19 season is just starting in the northern hemisphere. On top of that we have the long Covid phenomenon. But is's incidence is still unclear. But even if it is just 2% of Covid cases, that are ill for month (if not for years), that is really quite significant; even expensive for the economy.
We don’t lock down for Seasonal Flu and there is an annual vaccine for it with regular reminders to get your flu shot
Covid-19 has been around for less than a year, no vaccine and, with a lockdown and closing our borders, has already killed 3x more than the seasonal flu in the US
One thing I don't get is why saying C19 is "Just another Flu" is somehow taken as downplaying the virus. Seasonal Flu kills as many as 600,000 people annually. Do their lives not matter because they are taken by a regular old virus and not a novel coronavirus? And why doesn't the media report on every strain and mutation of the seasonal flu that could cause "long term effects"?