What I mean is people on both sides use which ever makes their position look better.
On this board it has been presented that tge chance of dying of covid is merely .5%, nothing to be concerned about and not enough to even warrant a vaccine. Sounds different when we say
5,266,797 people died.
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Ah ... OK. Yes, it's tragic. What's more tragic is that the vast majority of THOSE were preventable. (sick/susceptible placed into the very homes with more susceptible) Most of the total losses were in first world countries who follow this insane protocol of "go home and wait for some 'real' symptoms" ... and then high probability of getting on one of those ventilators about which we were so proud of Trump for using some POTUS authority to compel Ford Motor Company to start producing ventilators like it was WWII and Rosie the Riveter was back.
We didn't need a bahzillion ventilators ... we needed early treatment of the interference with the lung's diffusion process. That's STILL all we need in the vast majority of cases.
But for context in that number ... checkout this list in 2019 by none other than WHO dunit.
even with the artificially inflated covid19 death ATTRIBUTION, it would rate #3 between COPD and stroke (well, check that ... using nearly two years' worth of death stats in CV19 vice one ... so if we take 1/2 of your cited 5.3 million ... that's gonna make it about #5, with lower respiratory issues and ... NEONATAL conditions acing this disease ... again worldwide.
Are those conditions any more tragic? I mean ... could we have prevented a significant number of those?
What about the 42
million worldwide abortions last year? How many of those were unnecessary? Driven by irresponsible human activity? (getting the jab and wearing a face diaper is considered 'responsible' ... conversely failing to do that is ... irresponsible, hence the choice of words)
The top 10 causes of death
CDC reports flu cases in 2018-2019 ...
These tragedies don't disregard the losses to CV19 ... even those which weren't but were attributed. It speaks to the scope of the response, and therefore what we're willing to surrender for the perception we're "doing good" in reducing those tragedies.