For the hoax claimers, the math and comparisons is pretty damn simple.

Im prepared for a shitstorm of downvotes, since the poliboard has morphed into an echo chamber of Covid deniers.

Right now if you watch the numbers (which we can do pretty easily on this board with Chrome’s great work) you can see that we are easily trending for the 100k - 200k deaths that are being projected by the experts with all of the social distancing guidelines in place. We’ll be at 2k deaths per day by the end of the week if not sooner so probably get to 100k in a couple of months.

Those same experts have clearly said the distancing is working, and if we had done nothing, would be closer to 2 million deaths.

The distancing is strict. Restaurants are closed for dine in. People only go to “essential” work, home, and the store. And in my relatively small town, while at those places people are keeping their distance and being careful.

So it seems clear to me that if no measures were in place, and things like sports events with tens of thousands of folks packed in tight areas were still going on, that the numbers would get out of hand quickly and easily reach 1.5 to 2.2 million deaths total their studies show.

Compare all of this to the flu, which averages in the lower tens of thousands of deaths each year. The particularly bad one in 2018 had 60k deaths. And those numbers are without any extra measures in place. Sure we have flu shots but people haphazardly get those (shite I never get a flu shot and have never had the flu. Dumb luck but still).

So apples to apples comparison, you have 60k worst case for the flu vs 2 million for Covid19.

So I ask you hoax claimers, what the hell numbers are you looking at?