Originally Posted by Karnage

POLITICS

Originally Posted by simga

would it be dumb to say this? but I feel like they blew covid up like its bad but not as bad as people made it seem?

Originally Posted by max

Well I mean about 130k people have died from COVID since it started( in England), the reason why people take it seriously is because it’s a somewhat new virus and we are trying to stop it from getting worse, hence the masks, lockdowns, restrictions in general, if we hadn’t don’t anything then I’d expect on average around 500k people would have died if not more, and there has been 6 million cases in England on its own

Originally Posted by max

Well I mean about 130k people have died from COVID since it started( in England), the reason why people take it seriously is because it’s a somewhat new virus and we are trying to stop it from getting worse, hence the masks, lockdowns, restrictions in general, if we hadn’t don’t anything then I’d expect on average around 500k people would have died if not more, and there has been 6 million cases in England on its own

Originally Posted by simga

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This is true but the numbers are inflated, they counted the deaths of the people who died from other things too as long as they had covid at the time, they stopped doing it but it was still at issue near the beginning and middle of covid.