Amidst all the shameless politicisation, grandstanding, finger wagging, virtue signalling one-up-man-ship and general hysteria of the last 18 months over masks (or not) vaccines (or not and which one), vaccine passports (or not), screwups, stuff-ups and lockdowns we seem to have lost sight of the statistical reality
From the US CDC — Covid Survival Rate
0-19 years —- 99.997%
20-49 years —- 99.98%
50-69 years —- 99.5%
70+ years. —- 94.6%
For the record if you have bacterial pneumonia there’s a 14% chance you will die. Ebola a 50% chance. Are we seriously meant to believe that this entire thing isn’t pure politics, red in tooth and claw or as Shakespeare wrote just a lot of ‘sound and fury, signifying bugger all’