(09-20-2020 08:59 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(09-19-2020 08:47 PM)dc1 Wrote:  60 thousand do not die from the flu annually! Most years 20 some thousand die from the flu. 60 thousand is an extreme year not a normal year. We are currently in the 6th month of this virus and already 200 thousand dead in America

When the deaths from Covid reach 400K, will we still be comparing it with the flu? At what point is it no longer reasonable to make such a comparison?

Half of the Illinois deaths have been in assisted living/nursing homes. Half. Those are lives that should have been easier to protect, but it wasn't done.

Half of COIVD deaths are over 70.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22035

Instead of protecting the most vulnerable, the healthy were told and are still told to stay home.

If the risk is so great, why are the stay at home advocates fine with the essential workers taking the risk for them?