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[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (1 children)

people are still dying from COVID & people think it's "old news" lol

[–] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago (4 children)

In the "quiet" COVID month of July 1990 people died of COVID, compared to 86 people with influenza.

And that's a quiet month.

[–] TheMightyCanuck 259 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Read July 1990 as a date not: in July, 1990 people

[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

God thank you for the clarification. For a quick second I thought I had jumped the timeline to one where Clinton handled COVID.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I did not have sexual relations with that chinese bat"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Sure you didn't, buddy. We know it was thick and don't blame ya.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I too was perplexed... 😂

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Read "read" as imperative rather than past tense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

mentally inserted a comma between past and tense, tense

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lmao so did I. I was so confused.

[–] MartinXYZ 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it took me way too long.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Read "Read" as a command instead of a past tense :)

Tough day for keyboards today

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I will send back this PR as an incorrect date format, I already am triggered by this lack of a comma

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

worldwide, US or other country?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This includes deaths from covid-induced pneumonia, and influenza has higher seasonality. Including deaths from influenza-induced pneumonia, not cherry picking a summer month, and using a per capita statistic shows that covid is more deadly than the flu, but only about twice as deadly, not almost 24 times more deadly as your comment implies. Further, if you are under 50, the mortality rates for influenza are roughly equal or lower than covid depending on your age. Flu is much more likely to be disastrous for young children than covid.