On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 6:10:42 PM UTC-7, Gunner Asch wrote:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/revie...ing-overstated

The nations Center for Disease Control (CDC) figures for the
2018-2019 winter tell us that 35.5 million contracted influenza,
490,600 were hospitalized, and 34,200 died because of this single
disease. That was last year, and there was no declaration of pandemic,

Well, no declaration of pandemic is perhaps appropriate if those 'influenza'
cases were divided among many different strains.

Fatalaties from 'last year' means a whole year's victims, and
for contrast, April fatalities from COVID-19 in the US were 55,000
and climbing. That's not per year, that's per MONTH, and
it shows a climbing trend, which influenza doesn't. Prediction
to match a yearly influenza toll has been suppressed by
a not-very-clever wordsmith, and the result is ... well, a
clear attempt to mask important truths. By over an order of magnitude.

The shutdowns are why that April toll was so low; without
shutdowns, it's easy to estimate about two orders of magnitude in
the difference of COVID-19 deathly danger and that of sum-of-all-influenzas..

It's not clear whether 'thenewamerica.com' is the source of the lie,
but I'm crossing that "source" off. They made garbage and
called it analysis. You don't want to revisit that site.