The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
  • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    2 days ago

    you could also say the same about flu. why don’t you post about flu suddenly spiking in winter (surprisingly) and nobody caring about it?

    • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago
      1. COVID-19 spreads more quickly - it is more contagious and is contagious for longer than the flu.
      2. Severe illness is more frequent than the flu.
      3. Long-term effects are far more prevalent and far more severe with COVID.
      4. The ability for a coronavirus to mutate into a variant that is far more contagious and/or far more severe is much higher.
      5. The death rate for the flu is dramatically lower - 1.8 / 100k population than COVID with around a 240-300 deaths per 100k population. More than 1 million people have died from COVID in the US alone vs around 4-6000 per year from the Flu.
      6. People do in fact care about the flu spiking in winter. That’s why vaccines are promoted as much as they are.
      • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        14·
        2 days ago

        is 4 backed by actual research?

        isn’t 5 because of the antivaxx things?

        and, about 6, yes. people care about the flu, but nobody ever says ‘flu is spiking and corporations don’t care’

        • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          2 days ago

          You sound like someone who doesn’t really have a point but needs to argue for the sake of arguing. Maybe you can yell at yourself in a mirror - I’m sure it will be more entertaining.

          Edit: And to be clear… I wrote something in my prior comment that most people would interpret as wrong without some qualification or context. I decided to leave it partly out of laziness and partly to see if you would catch it and how. But instead of digging in you are just being confrontational.

          • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            12·
            2 days ago

            yes, I kinda like debating. But, i also think i have a point though. Sorry if it seemed like i was some kind of troll.

            also, was it point 5? it seems kinda wrong to compare yearly deaths to total.