Also, wasn't it convenient of them to leave "covid" out of the headline. Expected deaths this year without a pandemic were already expected to be much higher.[1]
FYI if you downvote without refuting my statements, you are that non-logical person.
[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...
Even if that were true, I fail to see how it is relevant.
We demonstrably have massively more people dying from COVID than die from normal flues, so either COVID is more fatal than normal flu, or we have a massive amount of people catching COVID who would not have caught normal flu.
according to the CDC, the US had 16.5% more deaths through the first ten months of 2020 than it had in the first ten months of 2019
edit: i downvoted AND refuted, fyi
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mor...
His argument was not very convincing, because (1) the chart is only going back 5 years, which is not long enough for population growth to have affected anything, and (2) population growth effects would change the height of the curve but not the shape of the curve, whereas the actual curve shows large shape changes.
You're being downvoted for a nonsensical opinion.
Rationality isn't about suppressing your emotions and your connection to other people. It's about integrating those emotions with your values, knowledge, and capabilities and deciding how to act based on that synthesis.
The fact is that we Americans are at our best when we're looking out for each other. And many of us are very concerned about COVID.