These are some of the reason why I'm not in what I believe to be mostly media driven "panic" mode. The link is to the CDC's report on just the US and the REGULAR seasonal flu and NOT COVID 19.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htmThis to their info on H1N1 Swine Flu from 2009 when more than 10K people in the US died BEFORE team O/Biden did a damn thing.
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htmAnd before that it was H5N1 Bird Flu -
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5n1-people.htmDon't get me wrong, anyone and everyone who dies from this this is a tragedy. All I'm intending to do is provide similar strains within the general strains of Corona viruses to give comparisons.
Forget about the flu -
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/new...w_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_usAgain, just trying to give a little perspective.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htmEdited to add another link -
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17...-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/I will say this again, all I'm trying to get across is I don't believe most of anything I see/watch on "mainstream media" mostly because they all have a VERY poor track record of being correct on nearly EVERYTHING and it has gotten worse in the last few years. Nor do I believe everything "on the web". I try to subject EVERYTHING to a certain degree of healthy skepticism and try to apply critical thinking to all of it. So far, at least for me, this just doesn't all add up. I have suspicions and ideas why all of this is going on but it's just personal opine.