Theres no doubt that if I hadn't prayed to baby Jesus last night, you would have been struck by lightning today....
See? I can make unfalsifiable claims too.
Source on 0.1% mortality for flu? Abs says 4124 flu/pneumonia deaths in 2019. Googl not showing relevant results on this one obviously, just a bunch of corona shit.
I'm not "pushing" any kind of agenda and resent the accusation. How would you like it if I accused you of cynically exploiting covid deaths to serve a vax and lockdown agenda? I wouldn't do that because i'm right and therefore have no reason to resort to bad faith tactics like impugning my interlocutors motivations.
281 people have died in the last 365 days with covid. 3318 people killed themselves in 2019. Mean age of death is 43, about half that of covid. Suicide is objectively 12× deadlier than covid. Suicide (as i'm sure you know) was already trending up at a rate of 5% a year over the preceding decade, meaning 2021 was on track for ~3650.
The fat morons running this shitshow are exaccerbating an objectively bigger problem to reduce a smaller one. The same thing for locking people down. 2/3 of the country are oberweight or obese, heart disease is a runaway as the biggest killer in the country. 18k died of Ischaemic heart disease alone in 2019, but instead of tackling that, these dickheads are telling everyone to stay at home and get uber eats to deliver KFC every night, lest they catch a virus that killed 281 people in the last 365 days....
8821 people die of lung cancer in 2019. Ban smokes? No.
281 people die of covid. Destroy everyones quality of life, jobs, ruin economy. Duh! Ofc!
If scummo et al were truly interested in improving public health there would be about 100 things you could do that would have more benefit for less pain.
That 0.1% was a rough estimate based on CDC data.
For example, the CDC data from the following years on Influenza case fatality rate shows:
2017-2018 - 0.136%
2018-2019 - 0.094%
2019-2020 - 0.058%
This is in comparison to the CDC case fatality rate of Covid-19 in the USA which is:
1.6%
Of course that's just the US and it varies by country. For comparison, Yemen has a Covid-19 case fatality rate of 18.8%. Peru is 9.2%. On the other end of the scale you have Laos, Bhutan and Singapore with a CFR of 0.1%
Australia has a CFR of 1.5% but that's based on Alpha variant. It's too early to calculate the CFR of Delta for Australia.
All that aside, there is "No doubt" that if we didn't have vaccination and lockdown then the hospital system would have struggled and deaths would have been higher. That's not based on guess work, that's based on data coming from other countries who have struggled.
I should also point out that comparison to other causes of death in Australia while using preventative measures (lockdowns, vaccines, mask use) is like saying that drinking arsenic isn't dangerous because more people die of heart disease.
In regard to the suicide rate, I don't mean to acuse you personally of pushing an agenda but I have seen many people say that stat. "9 people commit suicide per day". As I said, I work with Lifeline and am well aware of that stat as it was Pre-lockdown.
As I said. I fully expect that number to be higher due to lockdown related suicide, but pushing that "9 deaths per day" to criticise lockdown is dishonest because it has nothing to do with lockdown. You can get all defensive and righteous if you like but that stat literally has nothing to do with lockdown, so you either were unaware of that, or you were using it to push an agenda when you said, "Meanwhile, 9 people a day kill themselves. Dont know how anyone can justify this bullshit in their heads."
If it's the former then I apologise.