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Baardmeester posted...

They have about the same mortality rate.

Covid has killed more Americans every month since September 1st than influenza does in an average year. Even if you could claim that they had the same mortality rate (which you're not exactly citing), it is unambiguously obvious to anyone that's paid even a modicum of attention that Covid is more dangerous than the flu. Suggesting otherwise is nothing more than the desperate fantasy of people so deeply buried in their denial that they understand nothing about the world around them.

darkknight109 posted...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201218/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-damaging-than-flu-data-shows#1

COVID-19 is roughly 3-to-4 times deadlier than influenza based on hospitalized patients, and that was based on the 2018/2019 flu season, which was a particularly deadly one.

And that was published over a year ago, before Delta made everything much worse. Basing it on hospitalized patients also distorts the data: influenza's hospitalization rate is quite a bit lower than Covid's (though rather difficult to quantify, given how many cases of the flu go unconfirmed).