Quote Originally Posted by adahar View Post
In the interests of a balanced view it only seems fair that examination of flu deaths is presented. This is the site for inquiry on flu deaths. Research all you like, the figures won't change.

https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/...lu-flucurr.htm

From this data follows a partial extract from the year to date 22/9/19:-

In the year to date, 705 influenza-associated deaths have been notified to the NNDSS. The median age of deaths notified was 86 years (range <1 to 105 years).

There's little point in looking at year 2020 or 2021 as figures are skewed. Although it's notable that there have been no deaths in 2021 attributed to other types of Influenza.
One more thing I'd like to point out. There's a big elephant in the room regarding people who are in the "anti" camp. Those that want life to continue as before and do not want to consider COVID as a problem. Let's call them Muppets for simplicity.

The big problem with these Muppets is this:
It is true that there are a lot of other causes of death that are comparable to COVID. However, none of them need lockdowns, social distancing, or generally any type of mitigation mandated by the Gov that would affect the lives of Muppets a whole lot. Wear a seat-belt, higher priced ciggies, closing beaches after a shark attack, etc. All easy to do, no suffering for the Muppets.

Then we come to COVID mitigation. Muppets need to stay home all the time, their livelihoods are lost, they can't go for a punt, etc... Whoa it's a scam!

See, the ONLY reason these Muppets are downplaying COVID as a problem, calling it a scam, is because of the required mitigation that affects their lives. If car crashes needed the same kind of level of mitigation as COVID (eg. You have to wear a helmet when driving), the same Muppets would be calling Scam on car crashes too. Or if the only thing needed to prevent COVID was to wear a seat belt, do you think these Muppets would still be calling it a scam?