Do these numbers mean anything to them?

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-deaths-vs-flu-deaths.html

COVID-19 is killing 20 times more people per week than flu does, new paper says

If there was any doubt that the new coronavirus isn't just "a bad flu," a new paper lays that myth to rest. The study authors found that in the U.S. there were 20 times more deaths per week from COVID-19 than from the flu in the deadliest week of an average influenza season.
At a glance, this may appear similar to the toll of COVID-19, which as of early May, had caused about 65,000 U.S. deaths. (As of Thursday, May 13, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. was more than 82,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.)

But this doesn't match what health care providers are seeing on the frontlines of the pandemic, particularly in hot zones (such as New York City), "where ventilators have been in short supply and many hospitals have been stretched beyond their limits," the authors said.

This comparison is flawed because the CDC estimates of flu deaths are just that — estimates rather than raw numbers. The CDC does not know the exact number of people who become sick with or die from the flu each year in the U.S. Rather, this number is estimated based on data collected on flu hospitalizations through surveillance in 13 states.On the other hand, reported COVID-19 deaths are actual counts of people who died from COVID-19, not estimates. In other words, comparing estimates of flu deaths with raw counts of COVID-19 deaths is like comparing "apples to oranges," the authors said.

The thing is, they make a person fear for the lives of family members, with a feeling of helplessness, given the clown that we have leading the country.

I've not detected an accelerating rate over the last few weeks. I've also not detected a decelerating rate either. However, I also don't trust the numbers. We're flying blind here.

Hassett's "cubic model" said deaths would be at zero yesterday.
All these people who died yesterday & today are faking it.

asshole.

This is horrifying and numbing at the same time.

Stay safe malaise.

And that's official numbers. With the excess death data already available from earlier this year, I wouldn't be surprised if we've passed that already.

their numbers will skyrocket! What a terrible way to learn a lesson.

That will be one seriously sad topic for the day we honor our war dead.

It is almost as if Donny Corona declared war on his own country.

150,000 by July 4th. Do you think that number on the country's biggest holiday will raise some stink?

He's having his big party to celebrate himself. If he's not dead from the virus by then.

about anyone including those who served

and they say 3,000 per day (that's EVERY day) by June 1st. That projection puts us at 200K in Mid June.

since the numbers of dead, faceless peasants doesn't trouble them a bit. They still think their money will shield them from this disease, but viruses don't care about that.

The uber rich have probably already had a prototype vaccine, here or abroad. I'm hoping it's like the early dengue vaccines--get it when you haven't had the illness yet, and it will make the illness worse. They only worked as advertised after the first case.

It will be 90,000, then 180,000, then 360,000 and when it gets to be statistically or even physically closer to home, people will have to wake up to what's being done to them.

However, yes, they are monsters: soft, pink, predatory slugs.

(We're discussing recipes for eating the rich on another site, Plutocrat Vindaloo sounds like the best bet for covering up the rot and bile inherent in the meat)

know someone that had covid19. The unfortunate reality is that far more Americans will need to see the ravages of this virus up close to take it seriously.

you are so needed here on DU!

To be replaced by the "it is all the fault of the black guy" narrative?

Don the criminally negligent Con owns this

Trump and the GOP know this.

Never underestimate the ability of poorly informed voters to repeatedly make bad decisions.

'You might want to think about picking up a racket at some point.'