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Originally Posted by ZDan

The common cold is generally not lethal, with some rare exceptions”, the Digital Health Lab explains. “The flu, which is deadlier than the common cold, killed 0.1% of the people who contracted it in 2019. It is still too early to discern accurate global death estimates for people who have contracted COVID-19, but estimates have ranged from 1% to 25% of all cases, depending on the country”.

The experts argue that a conservative death rate of 1% would therefore make COVID-19 at least 10 times as deadly as the flu, and therefore “significantly more lethal” than the common cold.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-f...-idUSKCN26D0XT

That's from last September, current fatality rates in the US are ~5x greater vs. the flu at ~0.5% https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
So the delta variant is less lethal if you get it but it appears to be more infectious than previously, but WAY more infectious than the flu. Comparisons to "the common cold" are absurd...

Case rates in New York state are lower than the USA overall, but still rising. An abundance of caution seems warranted to me...

Everyone knows.
Everyone is tired.
Look at his emoji.

Come off it.