katharineSep 8, 2025
Without saying “endemic” or “but it’s mild now” explain how this is “post-Covid” or in any way acceptable.
Show threadAndreas KahlerSep 8, 2025
@thatkatharine
Article behind paywall unfortunately
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/us-winter-flu-deaths-outpace-covid-for-first-time-in-five-years
Show threadnone gender with left politics
@drayde @thatkatharine did you miss the part where long covid is disabling a significant portion of the people who get it even if they don't die? Try linking this to the tens of millions of people in the US alone with long covid and see if they care one whit about this statistic
Sep 8, 2025 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadMorgan ⚧️Sep 11, 2025
@vikxin @drayde @thatkatharine this image also probably isn't counting things like young seemingly healthy people having mysterious heart attacks and strokes (after they got COVID 4 or 5 times)... Or any of the deaths of people with long COVID who would have gotten through some injury or other illness otherwise
Show threadnone gender with left politicsSep 11, 2025
@raphaelmorgan @drayde @thatkatharine I'm under the impression most places just stopped checking for COVID in general, so there are probably a LOT of unreported COVID deaths. The drop off on that chart is...suspect, to say the least.
Show threadAndreas KahlerSep 11, 2025
@vikxin @raphaelmorgan @thatkatharine probably true, but this also applies to Influenca caused deaths, so I think a comparison is valid.
But of course you are all right, this graph does not show any non-fatal post-covid cases, which probably is the main difference.