Covid Pandemic 20 times worse death rate than the seasonal flu: Noam Chomsky on Imperial Implosion

Thus, between 2013 and 2019, the yearly seasonal influenza deaths ranged from 23,000 to 61,000. However, the actual number of counted influenza deaths over that timespan ranged between 3,448 and 15,620 deaths each year. On average, the researchers said, CDC influenza death estimates are about six times greater than the number of counted deaths.

Conversely, COVID-19 deaths are not estimated, but counted and reported directly. The researchers suggested that a more valid measure would be to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths.

So, they did.

During two weeks in mid-April, 29,933 COVID-19 deaths were counted in the United States. In contrast, according to CDC, counted deaths during the peak week of the influenza seasons from 2013-2020 ranged from 351 (2016) to 1626 (2018).

The mean number of counted deaths during the peak week of influenza seasons from 2013-2020 was 752.4.

"These statistics on counted deaths suggest that the number of COVID-19 deaths for the week ending April 21 was 9.5-fold to 44.1-fold greater than the peak week of counted influenza deaths during the past 7 influenza seasons in the US, with a 20.5-fold mean increase," the researchers said. 

Study Shows COVID-19 Body Count 20 Times Higher Than Seasonal Flu Deaths

Mother Nature has proven that the US Imperial Implosion has occurred.

As Noam Chomsky points out - the US NeoLiberal Imperial Regime of the past decades has completely undermined public policy domestically.

Just as the US has promoted, funded and trained Neo-Fascist "client states" around the world - as Chomsky documented - so too now is the US doing the same domestically.

I have called this Imperial Implosion.

 What Noam Chomsky books have you read? I recommend: "Year 501: the Conquest Continues" or "Political Economy of Human Rights Vol. 1 and 2" or "World Orders: Old and New" or "At War with Asia" It took me a few years devoted to reading Chomsky to understand him - it was a transformative experience.

matt smith 5 minutes ago

more like heading into the Road Warrior 2020 is the original Mad Max things are starting to go to hell wait until Civil Unrest starts already have Federal Agents in the streets basically Martial Law.

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Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang 1 second ago

@matt smith You could have had that back in 1996 if you protested the Corporate Democratic Imperial Regime conference in Chicago - there was the same Imperial Battalion of Cops - one of them said to me, "we'll crack your skulls just like we did in '68" and he was an Old-Timer. The Imperial Army has not changed. Cops started out as Slave Patrols. The FBI was created from the US Genocide in the Philippines. If people wanted to see if they really lived in a Democracy - all they needed to do is test to see if their Bill of Rights could be practiced. That's what I did and discovered. Nope. Democracy is a total lie. Now it's just a bit more obvious.

Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang 23 seconds ago (edited)

@Ax El Corn Syrup might be cheap but it's a chronic toxic drug causing malnutrition and obesity. You call Obesity having too much too eat? No - it's a symptom of the Toxic Corporate Fascist death system. Baby Obesity=Corn Syrup Baby Formula.

Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang 1 minute ago (edited)

West Africa has lots of jobs. 70% of US Chocolate is from child slave labor. Start Paying those kids to go to school and suddenly they don't want to work anymore!! Same thing in the U.S. People might have jobs but they have no savings for old age. Oops. Ah but the Fascist Propaganda has all the Brown No$ers cracking the whips on their fellow slaves! hilarious. Brown Shirt Brown-No$ers hoping if they kiss A$$ enough they might get promoted.